Tia Mowry Reveals She Took Diet Pills As a Teen and How Giving Up Diet Pills and Eating Healthy Helped

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She followed her professor's advice to write "Give up diet pills" on a piece of paper and throw it into her fireplace. To my teenage self, it was like living in a Willy Wonka's chocolate factory," Mowry writes. But the host of the Cooking Channel's Tia Mowry at Home didn't always have a healthy relationship with food. If heaven leads to health problems, that is."To counterbalance her junk food intake, Mowry admits she used diet pills in her late teens. Whole New You by Tia Mowry hit stores on Tuesday.



"It is still on the air -- Sister, Sister," Mowry tells E T's Nischelle Turner. READ: Tia Mowry Pens 'Food Is Powerful' in New Cookbook 'Whole New You 'It's been 23 years since Tia and her twin sister, Tamera, debuted as picture-perfect teenagers on Sister, Sister, but Tia admits that behind the scenes wasn't always as wholesome as it seemed. Tia Mowry has cooked up a whole new, healthy way of living since starring in the hit '90s sitcom Sister, Sister, and she invited ET into her home, where she opened up about where life has taken her. READ: Tia Mowry Calls Out Body Shamer: 'I Wanted to Prove a Point'"I ended up getting pregnant with my son, Cree," she says, calling him a "miracle baby." Oh geez, Tia!

Tia Mowry on How Giving Up Diet Pills and Eating Healthy Helped Her Conceive

Tia Mowry and her sister, Tamera, together comprised a lovable duo on the hit '90s sitcom Sister, Sister. Tia Mowry: I was in my maybe late teens, into my early 20s. I think that's the stigma about eating healthy. What's your advice to those who say eating healthy is too expensive — both financially and by time spent? Not only that, but you're giving back to your community, you're helping the local farmers.