Actress and singer Ashley Tisdale, a native of Ocean Township, is pregnant with her first child.
She is best known for starring in the “High School Musical” movies for TV and film.
On Thursday, the 35-year-old announced her pregnancy by posting photos on Instagram with her husband, Christopher French, with whom she is married since 2014.
Tisdale is the subject of an episode of the Disney Plus series “Becoming” airing today. She was discovered at the mall as a child.
The actress booked her first commercial for J.C. Penney. She played Maddie Fitzpatrick in the Disney Channel series “The Suite Life of Zack & Cody.” She went on to play Sharpay Evans in “High School Musical.”
She made her debut on the Disney Channel in 2006 and was followed by “High School Musical 2” in 2007 and “High School Musical 3” in 2008.
Tisdale voiced the title character in “Sabrina: Secrets of a Teenage Witch” on Discovery Family in 2013. She played Jenny Kenney in “Carol’s Second Act” on CBS, which bowed in March.
She had released three albums – “Headstrong” (2007), “Guilty Pleasure” (2009) and “Symptoms” (2019).
Her co-star Vanessa Hudgens congratulated the couple on Instagram, commenting, “Just the freaking cutest. So so happy for u guyssssss.”
Former “Glee” star Lea Michele also offered her well wishes. She said, “So happy for you babe! You’re going to be the best mama!”
Marking their anniversary, French recently said on Instagram, “Six years. There are so many moments, so many tiny fragile little moments that I can look at specifically.” “Amazing, beautiful bright ones and hard, cloudy difficult ones… we just keep getting closer,” he added. “I really can’t imagine life without you @ashleytisdale. I love you endlessly, Happy Anniversary.”