After 14 years of marriage, Tia Mowry and Cory Hardrict have agreed to divorce.

The Sister, Sister actor, 44, broke the news of the split on Tuesday in an Instagram post.

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“I have always been honest with my fans, and today is no different. I wanted to share that Cory and I have decided to go our separate ways,” she noted next to a picture of the couple in black and white. “These decisions are never easy, and not without sadness. We will maintain a friendship as we co-parent our beautiful children.”

Who is Tia Mowry?

Tia Dashon Mowry-Hardrict (née Mowry) is an American actor. 

She initially became well-known for her lead role as Tia Landry in the sitcom Sister, Sister (1994–1999), in which she co-starred in with Tamera Mowry, her twin sister. Later, the sisters appeared in Twitches and Twitches Too (2007), two Disney Channel Original Movies.

The two also voiced the LaBelle sisters in the anime series Detention (1999–2000) and featured in the fantasy comedy Seventeen Again (2000). From 2011 to 2013, they appeared in the reality series Tia & Tamera.

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Mowry provided Sasha’s voice in the cartoon series Bratz (2005–2006). She played Melanie Barnett, Stephanie Phillips, and Cocoa McKellan in the sitcoms Family Reunion (2019–present) and Instant Mom from 2013 to 2015, as well as Melanie Barnett in the comedy-drama series The Game from 2006 to 2015. 

The teen comedy The Hot Chick (2002), the musical comedy The Mistle-Tones (2012), the romance comedy Baggage Claim (2013), and the drama film Indivisible (2018) all featured Mowry in leading parts.

Early in the 1990s, Mowry and her sister Tamera founded a singing ensemble called Voices. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!, the group’s first single, was released in 1992 and peaked at No. 72 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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On July 6, 1978, Tia Mowry was born in Gelnhausen, West Germany. When her children were members of the band Voices, their mother, Darlene Renée Mowry (née Flowers), oversaw their careers while simultaneously working as a security guard.

When she was born, her father, Timothy John Mowry, was serving in the U.S. Army. After moving the family to California, he later worked as a custodial officer/jailer for the City of Glendale Police Department.

Tia is two minutes younger than Tamera, her identical twin sister. Tavior Mowry, a musician, and Tahj Mowry, an actor who played college football for University of California, Davis, are her two younger brothers.

On the set of their movie, Hollywood Horror, Mowry met the actor Cory Hardrict. They dated for six years before getting engaged on Christmas Day 2006 and getting married on April 20, 2008, in California.

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On January 11, 2011, People reported that Mowry and Hardrict were expecting their first child. The pregnancy was featured in the Style Network programme Tia & Tamera, which also included her sister Tamera Mowry. On June 28, 2011, she gave birth to a boy named Cree Taylor.

Mowry announced the news that she was expecting a girl, her second child, on November 8, 2017. Cairo Tiahna, their daughter, was born on May 5, 2018.

After 14 years of marriage, Mowry announced her separation from Hardrict on October 4, 2022, on Instagram.