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Tia Mowry is finding inspiration in unexpected places when it comes to shedding her baby weight.

The sexy actress, who gave birth to son Cree Hardict two years ago, opens up to Us Weekly about the difficulties she faced getting her body back, and which celeb mom she looks up to.

“Hilary Duff!” says Mowry, shouting out her fellow child star and new mom. Duff has famously struggled with her post-baby pounds and is vocal about the pressures put on women in Hollywood. She is one of the rare stars to take a slow-and-steady approach to weight loss.

“I remember when I had my baby. I was looking at everybody like ‘Damn, how are they on the beach after two months in a bikini? What the hell are they doing?’” the 34-year-old actress says. “I went to my OB because I thought something was wrong with me, because that’s all I would see! And she said, ‘No, honey, that’s fine.’”

She adds, “I think if you ask any pregnant mom, they’re like ‘I want my body back,’ but it takes time.”

“There’s a lot of pressure, especially when you see people like Claire Danes and Megan Fox,” adds twin sister Tamera Mowry, who also recently gave birth to her first child, baby Aden.

She adds, “at first you’re shocked. You’re like, ‘My body’s completely different.’ Your boobs are in your face, you have stretch marks, you have curves that you never had before.” Luckily, Tamera’s man doesn’t mind a little bootyliciousness. “My husband said, ‘Happy girls are pretty girls,’ and he keeps telling me that. Enjoy the phase that you’re in. I’m enjoying it!”

We think both Mowry sisters look better than ever. And besides, no matter what’s going on below the neck, no skinny actress can compete with those killer smiles!

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In a recent interview with CNN.com, super-twins Tia Mowry-Hardict and Tamera Mowry-Housley may have stumbled upon the next big thing in reality television.

The like-minded, like-faced sisters threw down a gauntlet to that other pair of Hollywood twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen: “We would beat them in a fight,” the Sister, Sister stars declared. Are we putting money on this? If so, let me go get my life savings, the deed to my house and all the scrap precious metal I can find and put it on Tia’s left hook. Seriously, the Olsen’s look like you could knock them over with the same feather, so no challenge there.

Other, almost equally obvious things T&T (or, as we will now refer to them, TNT) talked about include the thrill of getting pregnant, and not being the most popular girls in school.

“Our experience as actors in high school wasn’t really the best experience,” Tamera told CNN. “I think a lot of the time kids automatically assumed that maybe you think that you’re better than they are because you’re on TV. And we had big curly hair and buck teeth at the time so they called us the ‘Buckwheat Twins.’”

Tia added that she’ll never forget the time another student “screamed down the hall and he said ‘Your show sucks!’”

Her response to that high school hater is just plain awesome: “I turned around and I said, ‘Well, the checks don’t!”

Boo-yah!

As for the Olsens, do you really want a piece of this? Yeah, didn’t think so.

Tamera Mowry got engaged to her beau, FOX News anchor Adam Housley , last August and now that the May 15 nuptials are drawing near, she’s taking a hiatus from working to fully focus on wedding planning. “I’m actually going to take a break from work because it’s been a little bit stressful,” she told People. “I want to focus on this huge transition that’s happening to me. I really want to soak it in.”

Of course, the bride-to-be’s pregnant sister Tia Mowery is lending a helping hand. “I’m picking out flowers and helping making sure the place is how she wants it and that kind of stuff,” The Game star said. “[Tamera's] had her little ‘bridezilla’ moments, but she’s been pretty cool.”

Tamera stopped by The Wendy Williams Show last month and told the talk-show diva that she won’t be spending a fortune on the wedding. She’ll be wearing a Carolina Herrera dress and said it was “the most reasonable wedding dress. I am not going to pay $10,000 for a wedding dress, I’m sorry. This a wedding. I’m focused on my marriage, so yeah it would be stunning and beautiful.”

We can’t wait to see what Tamera puts together!

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Get the blue ready! Tia Mowry and her husband, Cory Hardrict, have announced they’re having a baby boy in July.

I admit, I wanted her to have twin girls because how cute would that have been (yes, I watched too much Sister, Sister as a kid), but it’s absolutely adorable to see how Cory is already gushing over his son. “Tia and I are very excited to be bringing life into this world,” he told JustJared.com. “Just thinking about my child coming here brings a tear to my eyes and I will try to be the best father in the universe!”

The baby will make his first on-screen appearance on the Style Network in a show that documents the pregnancy that will air later this year. I wonder if the tot will follow his parent’s acting footsteps and double as Tia’s on-screen son as well in a future season of The Game?

In not so happy celebrity parent news, Halle Berry’s ex Gabriel Aubry just can’t get a break in the press this week. In addition to the accusations that he hurls racial slurs at Halle, now sources are saying Gabriel goes “nuts” whenever anyone refers to their daughter, Nahla, as “Black.” TMZ reports:

“Whenever Gabriel would read a story about Nahla that referred to her as ‘Black,’ he would go off, insisting his baby was white. We’re told Gabriel would tell Halle and others they should demand a ‘retraction’ when such references were made regarding his daughter.”

Do you buy it? It just sounds a little too ridiculous to me. All these “sources” and “friends” that keep blabbing to the press should zip it and let the couple work this out on their own. One day Nahla’s going to be able to read all these accusations. SMH.

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Times are great for actress Tia Mowry.

Not only will BET premiere the newest season of the resurrected series, The Game, tonight at 10 p.m., but the Sister Sister star has just announced that she is pregnant with her first child!

Today, Tia Mowry told BET.com’s Kim Osorio that her and hubby, fellow actor Cory Hardrict are expecting a baby.  She is nearly four months pregnant and the baby is due July 3rd.

Also, the pregnancy will be captured on Tia and identical twin sister, Tamara Mowry’s reality show on the Style Network later this year.

Come back to BET.com later in the week for a one-on-one, on camera interview with Tia Mowry on The Game and more.

Congratulations to the happy couple!

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Look who’s getting cozy!  Hosea Chanchez and Tamera Mowry were spotted in LA earlier this week holding hands and playing kissy face after a dinner at Katsuya restaurant.

Tamera’s twin sister Tia, who starred with Hosea in the semi-recently canceled show The Game was also along for the outing (Guess “Malik” couldn’t get “Girl Melanie” so he got with her twin instead. Hmm wonder if Tia was the matchmaker?).

Tamera was engaged to Fox News producer Adam Housley back in ‘08, but the two called it quits before walking down the isle.  Good to see her back on the dating scene! It seems like the two are making future plans…at least vacation wise. “We’re going to Spain together,” Tamera told a Hollywood.TV reporter while paparazzi snapped photos of the couple.

We’ll keep an eye out to see how this union pans out!

What do you think of Hosea and Tamera as a couple?