20 Disney Child Actors Who Actually Became Moms (And Took A Career Break)

It’s hard to believe so many young celebrities have decided to have children! It can be a weird feeling when you grow up with a star and then they start having babies especially when you are a lot younger than the star. It can be exciting when we see out favorite stars get engaged or announce a pregnancy. Being a fan of a celebrity means you are likely to see them go through a lot of transitions in their lives. Some Disney stars have become mothers at a young age while others haven’t. Some were a surprise to us while others were expected pregnancies. One way or another, we get pumped that they are starting a new stage in their lives.

These actors were not only great Disney stars, but they turned out to be pretty great mothers as well. From Britney Spears to Hilary Duff, we have seen young girls grow up to be inspiring women. Nothing will probably make you feel older than seeing your favorite Disney star starting a family. Check out these 20 Disney Channel stars who became moms.

20 Hilary Duff is A Great Mom

Hilary Duff was on the TV show Lizzie McGuire and it was the first major role in her career. She moved on from the Disney Channel and started taking on more mature roles. She eventually met and married Mike Comrie and the two had their first child together, Luca. They have since separated and Duff is now expecting her second child with her new boyfriend. She seems happier than ever. Duff has made it a point to talk about her struggles as a single mother and how as mothers we should all support one another.

19 Kirsten Storms Loves Motherhood

If you were a fan of the Zenon movies, then you probably know Kirsten Storms. She moved on from childhood acting and has been on the soap General Hospital for thirteen years. She currently has one child and rumors were going around that she was pregnant again this year, but she killed that rumor pretty quickly.

“This is the only time I will address this on social media. No, I’m not pregnant in real life.

Just in GH life (where they pad me up to look prego in maternity clothes),” she wrote to her 262,000 followers.

18 Britney Spears Turned Her Life Around

Britney Spears was on the Disney Channel a long time ago before she was the pop star that we know and love. She was on The Mickey Mouse Club. She had two boys with her ex-husband Kevin Federline. She was 23 when she started having children, which would still be considered young to some. “I’ve had a career since I was 16, have traveled around the world and back and even kissed Madonna! The only thing I haven’t done so far is experience the closest thing to God and that’s having a baby. I can’t wait!”

17 Christina Aguilera Loved Mickey Too

Christina Aguilera was another pop star who got her start from The Mickey Mouse Club. She was a Mouseketeer for two years in the ’90s. She, of course, went on to be a huge pop star. She is a mother of two now to a boy named Max and a girl named Summer. She is now hitting the tour circuit again and taking her daughter with her. “My daughter, on the other hand, is going to be 4. She’s a mama’s girl and I’ll definitely be taking her on the road with me,” says Aguilera. “She’s going to learn to see life through a different set of eyes.”

16 Erin Chambers Is A Mom Now

Erin Chambers was a Disney star with the TV movie Don’t Look Under the Bed. She has moved into the adult acting world but has only had relatively good success. She’s had various roles in TV shows or movies about once a year. She had a baby boy in 2016 and she explained the name she chose. “Roan is Celtic and Gaelic is origin, and is a variation of the name Rowan, which means ‘little red one.’ We are hoping he’s a redhead like his mama!”

15 Erika Christensen Was a Swim Fan

She was a Disney star in the 1999 TV movie Can of Worms and when she got pregnant, she announced it by telling people that her puppy “is getting a little sister. A human sister.” She now has a two-year-old and is expecting her second child. She is probably most known for her role as the stalker in Swim Fan.

“Today I definitely focused on my gratitude for my mom who did and does so much to teach me not that the seemingly impossible is possible, but how.

She taught me to break the mountain down into step after step. I hope I can teach the same invaluable lesson.”

14 Jamie Lynn Spears Was A Young Mom

Jamie Lynn Spears was part of the Disney Channel in the TV show Zoey 101. She was one Disney star that got pregnant very young, at the age of 16. Moms all over the world were quite upset by the fact that she was someone their children had looked up to over the years and then became a teen mom. Jamie gave birth to Maddie Briann Aldridge in 2008. She was actually excited when MTV Teen Mom came on the TV.

“I remember thinking, ‘Oh my God, I cannot wait to see this show because there’s someone else out there,”

she said. “I mean, I feel for those girls. I’ve been that girl. It does show that motherhood is hard.”

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13 Hayden Panettiere Is doing it all 

Hayden Panettiere not only starred in the 2004 Disney Channel Original Movie Tiger Cruise, but she was also in Disney’s Remember the Titans. She moved on to a ton of movies since then and was on the TV show Nashville. She had a daughter, Kaya, and suffered from post-partum depression.

“It helped me identify and let women know that it’s OK to ask for help and that it’s OK to have a moment of weakness, and it doesn’t make you a bad person — it doesn’t make you a bad mother.

It makes you a very strong, resilient woman. You got to let it make you stronger.”

12 Kaycee Stroh Sang Her Way Into Our Hearts

Kaycee Stroh was part of Disney’s High School Musical franchise, but that was about as far as her acting career went. She was in the TV show Shapetown, USA in 2011, but that is her last acting credit. It seems as if motherhood was something she wanted to focus on more.

“I remember when I was growing up I would get so annoyed with my mother because she always wanted to ‘fix things.’

I used to say, ‘I just need to vent; don’t tell me what to do and how to fix the problem.’ I now realize that this is a built-in mom mechanism. It kills me to see Zetta suffer, and I would do anything to make it better!”

11 Tiffany Thornton is So Random

We know Tiffany Thornton from Sonny with a Chance and So Random! She hasn’t done much over the years aside from a TV show called Muertoons in 2014. She has no further acting credits since then. Maybe she had difficulty transitioning from being a child actor. But she now has two sons, so she might just be focusing on her family. She just announced this May that she is expecting a little girl, so she definitely has her hands full.

10 Stacie Hess is a Rip Girl

It seems as if the Disney movie Rip Girl is the only film Stacie Hess would do in her career. She hasn’t done anymore acting in the past 18 years. Instead, she went on to have a daughter who is now nine years old. It looks as if Stacie Hess went into photography and has her own website. Her daughter is the spitting image of her and they take gorgeous pictures together. Who knows, we may see her back in Hollywood again, but for now she’s enjoying being behind the lens.

9 Susan Egan Is Still Working

She was in the Disney TV movie Gotta Kick It Up! in 2002 and has been working in Hollywood regularly since then. She’s been in the TV series Steven Universe for the past four years. She has two daughters now named Isla and Nina. She also wrote an album about her daughter called “Nina Doesn’t Care.”

“I foolishly thought in my 20s as I exited those stage doors as Belle, with hordes of little girls waiting to meet me, allowing myself to believe that someday I would have little girls and they would think that I was pretty cool.

Nothing is a bigger or better ego check than becoming a parent.”

8 Kyla Pratt is Penny Proud

Kyla Pratt won over fans’ hearts in Disney’s The Proud Family as Penny Proud. She was also in Disney Channel Stars: A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes. Her most recent film credits were from 2016 when she starred in the TV movie The Secret She Kept, but we haven’t seen her since. She had two pretty cute daughters and she kept her pregnancies on the down low for the most part. We have to wonder if we will see her back in Hollywood again.

7 we forgot Fergie Was A Disney Star too

We bet you had no idea Fergie also got her start on The Mickey Mouse Club. Of course, she went on to have a mega career with her band the Black Eyed Peas as well as a solo career. She had a cute son with actor Josh Duhamel. The two are no longer together, however. She even put her career on hold to focus on her son.

“I’m not going to sacrifice time with my child. That’s just not going to happen.

They can keep banging on my door [to release an album], but I’m like, ‘I’m with Axl. I’m off the grid! Bye!’”

6 Tia Mowry-Hardrict Is A Twin

You might remember Tia along with her twin sister, Tamera, from Sister, Sister. The two have had a twin acting career and starred in many movies over the years together. Her Disney career started with the movie Twitches and Twitches Too. She is married to actor Cory Hardrict and the two share a son named Cree. She has stated that she is a “less traditional” approach as a mom than her twin sister, Tamera. Tia has been in a ton of TV shows over the years and most recently in Me, Myself and I.

5 Tamera Mowry-Housley Is The Other Half

Tamera Mowry-Housley is the other half of the twin set and she has had a Disney career as well as children of her own. She told People magazine that she “go[es] back and forth” on the idea of having a third child. She was also in Twitches and Twitches Too, but hasn’t had the same amount of film credits as her sister. Her most recent series was Daytime Divas and she only did the pilot episode in 2017. She hasn’t been in anything since.

4 Jennifer Love Hewitt Was A Mouseketeer

Did you know that Jennifer Love Hewitt was also a Mouseketeer? That was long before she was part of the I Know What You Did Last Summer franchise. She was one of the “it” girls in the ’90s and she has had a strong career in Hollywood. She has been in back-to-back TV series including The Client List, Hot in Cleveland, Criminal Minds, and most recently 9-1-1. She is also a wonderful mother to her two children Atticus and Autumn. “When you’re pregnant, it’s all about you — and that baby inside of you. Enjoy a nap; for some reason, our generation thinks we can’t do that! Really listen to your body. I hope to continue to be a little kinder to myself after pregnancy.”

3 Beverley Mitchell Wasn’t Just in 7th Heaven

We know Beverley Mitchell mostly from her time on the popular TV show 7th Heaven. But before that, she was a Disney star in the TV movie Right on Track. She has had consistent work over the years and was most recently in the TV series Hollywood Darlings and is currently filming the movie Blood Pageant. She absolutely loves being a mother to her two children. “I am absolutely loving being a mom. It truly has been the best job and I couldn’t love her more.”

2 Keri Russell does it all 

That’s right, Keri Russell is also from the Mouseketeer family. Her fame grew in the ’90s when she starred in the TV show Felicity. She has gone a long way in her career and she was most recently in the TV series The Americans. She is also currently working on the film Star Wars: Episode IX. She also has two gorgeous children, River and Willa. She is just another working actress in the industry that also happens to be a great mother too.

1 Anne Hathaway Is An Oscar Winner

Anne Hathaway certainly has come a long way from her Disney role in Princess Diaries. She has been in a ton of movies since then including Bride Wars, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Ocean’s Eight, and Les Misérables, the movie that she won an Oscar for. She gave birth to her son Jonathan in 2016.

“I’m happy when things are simple. Since having a kid, I find it a lot easier to do that.

The day begins with a checklist: Is he breathing? Is he healthy? Is he growing? Is he thriving? If I get four “yeses,” it’s really hard to upset my day.”

References: romper.com, j-14.com, mtv.com, parents.com

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