Random Bits of Bacon

This is Tia Mowry.

I’m not Tia or Tamara. I have said before and I am saying it again. It seems like whenever I go out people point or obnoxiously yell from across the room “hey which one are you, Tia or Tamera” or “you look like those girls from sister, sister.” I have been hearing that since I was little when the show first came on. When they had curly hair, I had curly hair. They started to straighten their hair around the same time I did. My mom says all the time that she wants to send Disney my picture and tell them that they need to make a new Twitches movie with me as the long lost triplet.

I just don’t see it. Other than we have a similar color and long black hair, I don’t see why so many people tell me I look like them. I have had long arguments with friends and family about this and they still don’t change their minds. I was at a debate tournament in high school and I went to the concession stands to get some food. I stood back looking at my choices when I see a mom at the booth pointing and whispering to I assume is her daughter. I immediately start smiling cause this is nothing new. The girl gets mad at her mom and tells her to stop pointing. I walked up to them to make my purchase and the mom started to say that I look like those girls from sister, sister, but I interrupted her and said it’s ok. I get that all the time.

On the outside (to strangers) I always kept my cool, but on the inside I wanted to shove every pastry in her face and scream “I am Jessica Bacon not those girls from sister, sister.” I mean strangers where taking away my identity. I was going through a “I want to be different from everyone else phase”. But as I got older, I started to realize that I could use that as a compliment. I mean they are really beautiful and if people are comparing me to them, then what does that mean about me. So now I just tell people, thank you. Thank you. It’s funny how most people don’t even remember their name, just their show.