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03-24-2018, 01:54 AM
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Tiffani Thiessen may be best known for playing perky cheerleader Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell and Peach Pit After Dark co-owner Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210, but now she’s taken on the role of mom both on- and off-screen.
In the Netflix comedy Alexa & Katie (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-alexa-and-katie-20180322-story.html), Thiessen plays the mother of Alexa (Paris Berelc), a high schooler fighting cancer.
“This isn’t something you would normally put together,” the real-life mom to daughter Harper, 7, and son Holt, 2, tells PEOPLE of the sitcom tackling terminal illness. “But it’s definitely not a conventional show.”
As the title suggests, the series centers on Alexa’s friendship with her best friend Katie (Isabel May) as the cancer-stricken freshman struggles with chemotherapy and the ups and downs of high school.
“Their relationship is very supportive,” the actress says. “It’s this day and age right now in the whole women empowerment [movement] and making sure that you’re supporting each other; it’s very much that relationship, just in a younger place.”
Thiessen, however, didn’t have a “normal” high school experience since she started acting as a teenager. “I was tutored all through high school,” the California native recalls. “I never went to a high school prom. I went to a junior high prom, but I never had the high school prom. It was all fake and on TV.”
Tiffani Thiessen may be best known for playing perky cheerleader Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell and Peach Pit After Dark co-owner Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210, but now she’s taken on the role of mom both on- and off-screen.
In the Netflix comedy Alexa & Katie (http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-alexa-and-katie-20180322-story.html), Thiessen plays the mother of Alexa (Paris Berelc), a high schooler fighting cancer.
“This isn’t something you would normally put together,” the real-life mom to daughter Harper, 7, and son Holt, 2, tells PEOPLE of the sitcom tackling terminal illness. “But it’s definitely not a conventional show.”
As the title suggests, the series centers on Alexa’s friendship with her best friend Katie (Isabel May) as the cancer-stricken freshman struggles with chemotherapy and the ups and downs of high school.
“Their relationship is very supportive,” the actress says. “It’s this day and age right now in the whole women empowerment [movement] and making sure that you’re supporting each other; it’s very much that relationship, just in a younger place.”
Thiessen, however, didn’t have a “normal” high school experience since she started acting as a teenager. “I was tutored all through high school,” the California native recalls. “I never went to a high school prom. I went to a junior high prom, but I never had the high school prom. It was all fake and on TV.”