Ashley Tisdale French was as soon as the queen of Disney Channel, making audiences chortle throughout The Suite Lifetime of Zack and Cody and the Excessive Faculty Musical franchise.
Within the years since her tenure on the Mouse Home ended, Tisdale French has reframed her profession whereas balancing motherhood.
Tisdale French married her husband, Christopher French, in 2014, almost seven years earlier than they welcomed daughter Jupiter. The pair’s second daughter, Emerson, accomplished their household in 2024.
“[With] your first [baby], you actually don’t know what it’s going to ivolve and what that appears like and learn how to do issues,” Tisdale French solely advised Us Weekly in March 2025. “And also you’re so nervous. … With the second, you simply really feel a lot extra assured.”
She continued, “To have the ability to have this expertise once more and to have it in such a good way and be so current, it makes me cherish each single second.”
Maintain scrolling for a peek at Tisdale French’s life:
Motherhood
Ashley Tisdale French with daughters Jupiter and Emerson in 2025. Courtesy of Ashley Tisdale French/ Instagram
Tisdale French and French are mother and father of daughters Jupiter and Emerson, the latter who began potty-training in 2025.
“I totally ready myself,” the actress solely advised Us in June 2025. “I really feel such as you want a zone, to be trustworthy. I keep in mind we have been like, ‘OK, the playroom is the zone the place you simply form of, like, take the diaper off and also you’re like, OK. You actually need to inform us when it’s a must to go.’ As a result of it’s them studying like the feeling of, like, having to go to the toilet.”
In line with Tisdale French, she “actually form of prepped” herself by arranging towels in every single place in case Emerson had an accident.
“We rolled up the rug and also you simply form of know that it’s gonna be a bit of loopy for a minute,” she defined. “We tried earlier [when] it might need been a bit of bit too early [for her] and it wasn’t as simple. However when they’re prepared, it’s so much simpler than anticipated.”
Tisdale French additional pressured it was simple to show Emerson to make use of the bathroom as a result of her massive sister was engaging in the duty already.
“[Younger children] simply form of wanna be like [their older siblings],” she advised Us. “I really feel like we actually had the shortest time crawling. Like, I feel [Emerson] crawled for perhaps two weeks, and abruptly she’s standing and desires to stroll, and it’s so early. I really feel like she needs to actually attempt to stroll, however I feel it’s as a result of she sees Jupiter strolling in every single place. … She simply looks like she’s gonna fast-track every part that she’s doing.”
Making — And Leaving — Mother Associates
After welcoming Jupiter in 2021, Tisdale French fashioned friendships with different movie star mothers together with Hilary Duff, Meghan Trainor and Mandy Moore. Their connections presumably shattered after Tisdale French claimed in January 2026 that she dropped her “poisonous” good friend group.
“I keep in mind being disregarded of a few group hangs, and I knew about them as a result of Instagram made positive it fed me each single photograph and Instagram Story,” Tisdale French wrote in a viral essay for New York Journal’s The Minimize. “I used to be beginning to really feel frozen out of the group, noticing each manner that they appeared to exclude me. … I advised myself it was all in my head, and it wasn’t a giant deal. And but, I might sense a rising distance between me and the opposite members of the group, who appeared to not even care that I wasn’t round a lot.”
Tisdale French didn’t title any of the mothers in her essay, although Duff’s husband, Matthew Koma, seemingly clapped again.
“A mother group tell-all via a father’s eyes,” Koma wrote through his Instagram Tales, pretending he wrote an analogous tell-all essay. “While you’re essentially the most self obsessed, tone deaf particular person on earth, different mothers are inclined to shift focus to their precise toddlers.”
Tisdale French didn’t instantly reply to Koma’s accusations.
New Profession
Tisdale French launched her Being Frenshe skincare line in 2022, naming the gathering after her married title.
“I’ve all the time had a ardour for self-love and all issues magnificence and wellness,” she wrote through the model’s web site. “Whereas alone psychological well being and wellness journey, I found that introducing perfume into my every day rituals enormously influenced my temper — whether or not it was to maintain me grounded and calm or have fun my confidence and pleasure.”
Tisdale French’s Being Frenshe sells a set of wellness necessities to “nourish your well-being” utilizing clear elements.
“Every providing is consciously formulated with clear elements and rooted within the emotional energy of scent, so feeling good is so simple as taking a breath,” the web site description reads. “My hope is that these merchandise will assist your individual self-care rituals — and encourage you to breathe in a second for you.
Tisdale French additionally has a ardour for house decor, which she leveraged to create a line of Frenshe Interiors rugs.
The previous Disney Channel star nonetheless acts as nicely, just lately reprising her voiceover function as Candace Flynn on the community’s revived season of Phineas and Ferb in 2025.
Altering Her Title
Tisdale French revealed in November 2025 that she now professionally plans to go by her married title.
“I lastly launched ‘By Ashley French,’” she defined in an Instagram video, saying her life-style weblog. “I’ve by no means actually been this intimate earlier than, however I’ve a lot to speak about, particularly now in my 40s, having my children, being a father or mother, working an organization.”
Whereas Tisdale French had been utilizing her husband’s final title for years, she by no means formally modified her moniker.
“I actually by no means modified publicly as a result of everybody is aware of me as Ashley Tisdale,” she mentioned. “I simply felt prefer it was time for individuals to know me for me and never only a character or a star. … We must be trustworthy, at this level, you don’t know what’s actual, what’s a bot, and everybody has one thing to say, and it won’t be optimistic. Not that I wish to block out the negativity, it felt like to guard my peace, I didn’t wish to preserve sharing in that manner.”
