Tia Mowry in Real Life

Tia Mowry discovered that she was interested in acting when visiting her younger brother Tahj on the set of "Full House." After that, she and her twin sister, Tamera began auditioning for roles against each other. Tia and Tamera's hard work has paid off as they were recently selected by children around the country as television's most popular actresses in Nickelodeon's 8th Annual "Kid's Choice Awards."

A self-described "Army brat," whose father is a First Sergeant in the United States Army, Tia was raised in Honolulu, Hawaii before the family moved to Los Angeles five years ago. Tia Mowry was born two minutes after her sister on July 6 in West Germany.

is July 6th,1978. They are both born under the star sign Cancer although neither of them are big believers in horoscopes. They're both 5' 5'' ( 5'6" with heels on!) and have black hair and brown eyes.  

They do have a lot in common obviously, being identical twins, but they do have a few major differences in some areas. For example, Tamera tells us :

Tamera Mowry in Real Life

Tamera Mowry and her twin sister, Tia, were discovered when their younger brother's agent mentioned them during a meeting with de Passe Entertainment.

Tamera began acting at age 12 and has danced in several music videos. She also appears in an episode of "Flesh 'N Blood."

Currently, she and Tia share the distinction of having the 15th highest TVQ rating score among female, prime-time television performers. Among kids and teens, their Q score is even higher than the Olsen twins from "Full House."

Tamera was born on July 6 in West Germany and lived in Honolulu, Hawaii before moving to Los Angeles five years ago. Currently, she lives in Van Nuys, California with her parents, twin sister Tia, and brothers Tahj and Tavior.

  "I am messy. Not really really messy, but I'm not as neat as Tia. She's so neat ! When I go in her closet she has all her pants in one place, her shirts in another, it's all very tidy! Whereas I'm like 'Whatever.' You look in my room and it looks neat enough but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!".  

Tia says there's also a slight difference in personality when it comes to meeting strangers:  

"I think that you may find that Tamera's a little more vibrant and energetic, but I'm much more likely to go up to a person and say, "Hi, I'm Tia, nice to meet you". Wheras Tamera is like...well ...she's a little shy. She's down to earth. I'm more extroverted and she's more introverted when meeting people. Even with a fan I'll be like, "Hi! How are you! How are ya doing?" and Tamera's in the back thinking, "Let's see if this person's okay, then I'll come". That's how she is. I take the first step."

The girls in their late teens.>Fashion

Despite the differences in their respective closets the girls both share a love of clothes and fashion. Strangely perhaps although they do have some outfits by big name designers like Versace, Gucci, etc, they both have a big liking for clothes from The Gap and Benetton. They say that's due to the fact that you can colour co-ordinate almost all of their outfits - a fashion sense they inherited from their mother. As Tia says:

"That definitely came from my mother. Because she's like, an awesome dresser. So it started when we were two. If you see a picture of us, we had fur coats and everything when we were young. Accessories from head to toe."

There's a practical reason, too, for some of the great hats you'll see the girls wearing, apart from looking great they save a lot of time in make-up when their hair has to be just right as Tamera tells us :  

"I love hats. I've probably got about 36 of them. I wear them a lot especially when it's raining. Sometimes our hair is blow-dried straight so if you add water, " she laughs," it'll curl up in a second, so hats are a very good idea!" She also says, "We're both into runway fashion, and personally I want to model on the runway soooo bad! I'd love to walk the catwalk! I just want to walk that walk."