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Tia Mowry Reveals Where She Stands With Sister Tamera Mowry (Exclusive)
Tamera Mowry-Housley is readying to enactment up a batch of stockings this year.
A period aft duplicate Tia Mowry went viral for accidentally saying that she and her sister are nary longer close, Tamera shared penetration into their family-filled upcoming holidays.
"My hubby [Adam Housley] and I person been doing this since we've been together, truthful it's astir 20 years," Tamera told People successful an interrogation published Nov. 1. "We commencement connected Christmas Eve. We invitation everyone to our location that possibly doesn't person a place, their household is not around. We cook cookies and we person a little, it's not similar a large party, but a get-together."
"Every Christmas, we invitation our full family," she continued. "This twelvemonth my sister's invited, my brothers, my mom, my dad, beauteous overmuch everybody successful the family. And we marque Christmas beef. It usually ends up being a roast beef with mashed potatoes, greenish beans. Those are immoderate of the staples, with a Christmas portion that I look for. We conscionable get unneurotic and bask each other."
And this year, Tamera—who shares kids Aden, 12, and Ariah, 9, with hubby Adam—is besides expecting some of her parents Timothy and Darlene for the archetypal clip since 2015. (The mates divorced aft 40 years of marriage.)
"I'm really, truly excited astir this Christmas due to the fact that our full household is invited,” she added. “It'll beryllium the archetypal clip we walk Christmas nether my location with my ma and my dada unneurotic successful my house. I'm truly excited astir that. I'm freaking out."
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In September, a clip from Tia's world amusement My Next Act—in which she stated she's not "close" to Tamera—went viral. However, she set the grounds straight, noting that it was really geographical.
"It was much astir proximity," Tia told E! News earlier this month. "As siblings, we each turn up and we get married, we person kids. We instrumentality connected antithetic roles and responsibilities successful life. And she's the wife, she's the mother. I'm a mother. My member Tavior [Mowry] is a hubby and a father."
"What I meant by that is we arsenic siblings are not arsenic accessible to 1 another, and that is beauteous and challenging astatine the aforesaid time," she continued. "Family is amazing, and enactment from household is amazing, but unfortunately, is not ever accessible arsenic we get older and that's wherefore friends and sisterhood is conscionable arsenic important and community, and that is what I privation to spotlight, and that is what I meant by that."
Tia—who shares kids Cree, 13, and Cairo, 6, with ex Cory Hardrict—knows that these things tin hap surviving successful the spotlight. But she and Tamera aren't disquieted astir it.
"I don't privation to talk connected behalf of my sister, but there's thing to say, you cognize what I mean?" Tia explained. "We're successful this industry, we're successful this business, and we each cognize that it's precise mean for radical to instrumentality things retired of context, and it's a portion of our life, and it is what it is. But that's each okay."
Keep speechmaking to revisit Tia and Tamera's astir candid confessions…
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Tia Mowry Recalls Losing Her Virginity to Cory Hardrict
After finalizing her divorce from Cory Hardrict successful April 2023, Tia Mowry reflected connected her caller azygous chapter.
"I came into this satellite with a twin," the histrion said connected the premiere occurrence of her world bid Tia Mowry: My Next Act, which debuted successful October 2024, portion referencing sister Tamera Mowry, "and close aft that I went into a 22-year relationship. So I person ne'er been unsocial successful my life. It has been rather a journey."
Tia and Cory met successful 1999 portion moving connected the movie Hollywood Horror. While their narration started disconnected arsenic platonic, it aboriginal turned romanticist and Tia noted "Cory was my archetypal everything."
"I met Cory erstwhile I turned 20, and I mislaid my virginity astatine 25. There, I said it," she continued connected her We TV series. "And past we got married! Boom!"
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Tia Shares Why She & Cory Divorced
Tia and Cory wed successful 2008 and welcomed 2 children together: lad Cree successful 2011 and girl Cairo in 2018.
But successful 2022, the mates split. While Tia cited "irreconcilable differences" arsenic the crushed for their breakup successful her divorce filing, she aboriginal offered penetration into erstwhile she knew her matrimony to Cory was over.
“I knew erstwhile I truly started to absorption connected my happiness,” the Sister, Sister alum said connected a November 2022 occurrence of Today. “I consciousness similar women, we thin to absorption connected everybody else’s happiness, making definite that everybody other is OK—meaning our children, our friends, our family. But astatine the extremity of the day, it's astir self-love. And erstwhile you commencement to truly enactment connected yourself, emotion yourself, cognize your value, cognize your worth, past each of a abrupt there's this awakening. And it's not easy. It's a hard journey. But astatine the extremity of the day, I consciousness similar it is so, truthful worthy it."
After being honorable with herself astir the dissolution of her marriage, Tia wanted to beryllium upfront with the public, too.
"I got bushed of not being authentic and surviving successful my truth," she added successful Tia Mowry: My Next Act. "I got bushed of showing up astatine events and radical reasoning everything was cleanable erstwhile it wasn't."
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Tia Reveals the Role Her Kids Played successful Her Decision to Divorce
Tia besides considered however the divorcement would impact Cree and Cairo.
“A portion of my determination was besides for them,” she explained successful a June 2023 interrogation with HelloBeautiful. “For them seeing their parent locomotion successful truth. I consciousness similar it’s a large acquisition for them due to the fact that it was not an casual decision. It was 1 of the hardest decisions that I had ever had to marque successful my full life. But if they spot that mommy tin bash it, that mommy, nary substance what radical say, nary matter, adjacent if there’s immoderate benignant of doubt, whatever, mommy pushed through. [They tin say] my mommy is surviving and chasing her truth."
And The Game prima hopes her kids tin 1 time carve their ain path, too.
"I privation my children to bash that," she added. "That’s the champion acquisition I tin springiness them. I privation for them not to unrecorded a beingness that I privation them to live, for them not to unrecorded a beingness that everybody other wants them to unrecorded oregon what they deliberation that they should beryllium oregon live. I privation them to spot that it is good to person a atrocious day. I privation them to spot that it is good to pursuit your joy. I privation them to spot that it is good to unrecorded your truth.”
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Tia Reflects connected Where She Stands With Twin Sister Tamera Mowry
Pointing out, "We unrecorded successful antithetic places. We person our ain families. We person our ain wants and desires and needs," Tia simply said, "We person antithetic lives now."
A source adjacent to the matter told E! successful September 2024 "the sisters are adjacent but the punctuation being referenced was astir their carnal location—Tamera lives successful Napa and Tia lives successful Los Angeles." Tia besides aboriginal clarified her remarks, noting she was referring to proximity erstwhile discussing their closeness.
“What I meant by that is we as siblings are not arsenic accessible to 1 another," she told E! successful aboriginal October, "and that is beauteous and challenging astatine the aforesaid time.”
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Tamera Says She Found Out About Tia's New Show "With the Rest of the World"
Still, it was a spot of a daze erstwhile Tamera said she recovered retired Tia was returning to world TV erstwhile fans did.
"I didn't know," she told Entertainment Tonight successful May 2024. "I recovered retired with the remainder of the world."
As for whether Tamera volition marque a cameo connected Tia's series? "She didn't inquire me," the erstwhile cohost of The Real continued. "So I instrumentality that arsenic no."
However, Tamera suggested she was good with not appearing connected Tia's series.
"She's like, 'This is my story,'" she added. "I tin lone respect that."
And Tia suggested she didn't deliberation it was a large woody that she didn't springiness Tamera a heads-up astir the world show.
"It's mean for you not to archer everyone everything," she told the Associated Press Oct. 11, 2024. "It doesn't mean anything. There's thing loaded. She's surviving her life, I'm surviving my life. We don't person to archer each different everything, and that's precise normal."
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Tamera Remembers Attending Therapy With Tia to Work connected Their Communication
The siblings person spoken astir their ups and downs before.
During an occurrence of their erstwhile world amusement Tia & Tamera—which ran from 2011 to 2013—they attended a counseling league to enactment connected their communication.
"It's due to the fact that we were truthful different, and we needed to larn to pass successful a mode that was affirmative for the some of us," Tamera explained connected a 2019 occurrence of The Real. "I'm precise delicate arsenic the satellite knows, and my sister—she's precise assertive and she tin grip herself. We had to larn however to pass decently with each other."
Tamera Describes Being Compared to Tia
Growing up, Tamera was utilized to the nationalist drafting comparisons betwixt her and Tia.
"Being calved arsenic an identical twin, I consciousness similar I had nary prime successful the substance that radical were going to compare. It happens," she said successful a January 2024 YouTube video. "You spot twins your encephalon automatically wants to comparison and look astatine the differences: 'Oh, this duplicate has a fuller face. This duplicate is thinner. That's however we tin archer them apart. One has a mole. One has a much bubbly personality. One is simply a small spot much shy.'"
And aft a while, these comparisons took a toll.
"As I got older—college, being connected TV—I started to instrumentality it idiosyncratic and that's erstwhile it became toxic," the histrion continued. "And you tin Google to spot the toxic comparions retired there."
However, her parent gave her immoderate advice: "Comparison is the thief of joy."
"Even though I'm a twin, God made each of america different," Tamera said. "We whitethorn person the aforesaid DNA, but we person antithetic gifts. And that's OK."
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Tamera Speaks About Marriage to Adam Housley
Just arsenic however Tia has opened up astir her clip with Cory, Tamera has fixed fans glimpses wrong her narration with hubby Adam Housley. And portion she's called him "the emotion of my life," similar immoderate couple, they acquisition highs and lows.
"Thirteen years, I can't judge it," Tamera, who wed Adam successful 2011, told E! News successful May 2024. "It's gone by accelerated actually. I ever say, 'You're gonna person your ups and downs.' Our matrimony is not perfect, but I inactive similar him. I similar who helium is arsenic a quality being. And we're really increasing unneurotic alternatively of apart."
And they cheque successful connected each other.
"Every present and past conscionable inquire them, 'Are you happy?'" Tamera, who shares kids Aden and Ariah with Adam, continued. "'What things tin we bash to proceed keeping america happy?' Because I don't conscionable privation to beryllium joined for a agelong time, I privation to beryllium happily joined for a agelong time."
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Tamera Talks "Sex Goals"
After much than a decennary of marriage, it seems Tamera and Adam inactive cognize however to support things spicy.
"For me, staying happily joined is having enactment goals," the Twitches alum said connected a 2022 occurrence of The Jennifer Hudson Show. "And I don’t deliberation there’s thing incorrect with women being vocal astir it."
As for what those goals include? According to Today, Tamera wrote successful her memoir You Should Sit Down for This a database of places she wants to person sex, including connected the rooftop of a skyscraper, connected a car successful the rainfall and successful each country successful her house.
"I wanted to get escaped of each those stereotypes," she told the outlet. "Own your man. Own your enactment beingness and emotion it! Just due to the fact that you've been joined for implicit a decennary that doesn't mean that you person to adust up."
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Tamera Looks Back astatine Her Time connected The Real
Tamera has gotten existent astir her archetypal 4 years connected The Real.
"It was 1 of the unhappiest times of my life," she wrote successful her memoir portion discussing the commute, the grind and public scrutiny. "I suffered horrible anxiety, I'd propulsion up successful my dressing room, I drank mode excessively much."
Still, Tamera has galore fond memories from her 7 years connected the show, too—which she reflected connected portion announcing her departure from cohosting successful 2020.
"The friendships that I've made determination volition past a lifetime, and the radical that I've had the blessing to interrogation person changed my beingness for the better," she wrote successful portion of an Instagram station astatine the time. "I'm truthful arrogant of what each the ladies and I person accomplished there, including 2 well-deserved NAACP Image Awards and a Daytime Emmy."
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Tia & Tamera Reveal If They'd Ever Be Up for a Sister, Sister Reboot
With truthful galore '90s shows getting a refresh, fans person wondered if Sister, Sister mightiness beryllium rebooted too. However, Tia and Tamera person noted that the process isn't easy.
"My sister and I had been trying for a fewer months now," Tia said connected a 2017 occurrence of The Real. "We tin lone bash truthful much."
And portion immoderate fans whitethorn inactive clasp retired anticipation for a revival, Tamera told Us Weekly in May 2024, "It’s not happening."
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