Tia Mowry | Shelf Portrait | Marie Claire
Tia Mowry gives us a peek at her favorite reads! Get a close look at her personal bookshelves as she shares recommendations for titles that changed her life, what she loves reading with her kids, and much more.
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00:00I didn't want to be scared about my pregnancy. I wanted to laugh and really talk about all of the crazy things that really go on during your pregnancy, like peeing on yourself when you laugh.
00:12And you guys, that still happens. Sorry to tell you, but it's the truth.
00:18Hey guys, what's up? Team Marie here.
00:20So, you guys, I'm about to give Marie Claire a peek into my personal library.
00:27Welcome to Shelf Portrait.
00:32So, my library is in my room. I have a range of different books.
00:38So, I like a lot of health books because I'm all about wellness.
00:43And over in this area, I'll move over here.
00:46This is kind of like my little, I would say, like shrine of accomplishments.
00:52I wake up to it every morning and it reminds me of all the hard work that I've done and that I'm proud of.
01:00So, I have my book, Old Baby, here, which is my first book that I've ever written.
01:05And I also have within my book collection some candles, some flowers, maybe some pictures of myself and my husband when I was pregnant.
01:15Oh, I also have this really cool jar with some sage and palo santos in there, you know, to get a nice vibe going.
01:24I have a picture of my brother, my YouTube plaque.
01:29So, yeah, so that's basically my personal library here.
01:37Okay, you guys, so I'm going to share with you five of my favorite books of all time.
01:43First, I will start with A Million Little Pieces by James Fray.
01:50It's about overcoming addiction, but you don't have to, you know, be addicted to drugs or anything like that to, I feel like, to be moved by this story or this book.
02:04Everybody has some sort of struggle that they're going through.
02:09Oh, my gosh, my favorite childhood book would definitely have to be Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss.
02:17And I have a very vivid memory of that.
02:21The school that I was going to in Hawaii, we actually made green eggs and ham at school.
02:28So, it was just a great experience overall, you know what I mean?
02:32Like reading the book and then having to poke and have an activity associated with the book.
02:38What a great way to, you know, embed great memories.
02:47Another one of my favorite books would definitely have to be The Secret.
02:53Now, you guys, this book changed my life for the better.
03:00And at first, I was apprehensive, you know, because I was like, what's so like, you know, amazing about this book?
03:08But I will say it is very, very magical.
03:11And to this day, I learned how to do my own vision board.
03:16I learned how to just project and visualize my goals and my aspirations and then just kind of put them out there into existence.
03:29And that's what this book is about.
03:30And I am telling you, ever since I started doing that, I started to see a huge change in my career, in my personal joy, in my life.
03:44Once you realize that you do have the power of your destiny, when you understand that you do have that power, it is very magical.
03:54A book I'd love to see turn into a movie?
03:57I would say a book that I wrote with my sister called Twin Tuition.
04:04I just feel like this is just, you know, so adorable.
04:07I could totally see this like on the Disney Channel or just something, you know, it's again, magical and fun.
04:16There we are in the back.
04:18But yeah, totally Twin Tuition.
04:24Another one of my favorite books would definitely have to be The Four Agreements.
04:29This one, I would say, is my top favorite book of all time, again, because it really changed my life.
04:37It was or is written by Don Miguel Ruiz.
04:41And it's called, you know, it's a Toltec wisdom book.
04:46And that's exactly what this did for me.
04:48It gave me wisdom.
04:50This book is all about realizing that you can have peace and joy while you're here on Earth.
04:56And the biggest takeaway that I got from this is not to take things personally.
05:02Forgiveness is, it's the secret.
05:07It's the key, one of the keys to having peace and having joy.
05:13So this is a really, really cool series of books.
05:17It's called Little People, Big Dreams.
05:19And it has, like, really cool people that we kind of focus on, like Maya Angelou.
05:27And then we have Mother Teresa, Anne Frank, Rosa Parks, and Frida.
05:33All these amazing, wonderful women that have paved the way for, you know, really all of us.
05:40And I love teaching my daughter about such incredible women who are leaders in our history.
05:46Another one that I absolutely love is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho.
05:52This book was recommended to me by a really, really good friend of mine.
05:56You may know him.
05:57His name is Otit Agbenle.
05:59And he is on the Handmaid's Tale.
06:02So this book, it talks about omens and how in life you have signs from God.
06:10And prior to reading this book, I wasn't really keen or looking for, you know, specific little signs in life.
06:20And this really made me realize that God is always present, always on my side,
06:30always giving me omens and signs to pay attention to.
06:36And you only know those omens.
06:39And those signs.
06:40Let's see.
06:41Do I prefer a hard copy or am I an e-reader?
06:45I would say both.
06:46Like, some books I just want in my hand.
06:49You know what I mean?
06:50Like, I really want to just feel the pages and, like, have that book in my hand.
06:56And then other times I will, you know, get an e-reader or even an Audible.
07:03I tend to do a lot of health books that way.
07:08Because you can kind of get through those faster.
07:12But if it's like an autobiography or if it's like, you know, a fictional or fiction,
07:20there's something about curling up in your bed with the candles on, creating some sort of mood,
07:26with the covers over you and reading a book.
07:29The last book that I will talk about, which is, oh my gosh, you guys.
07:35This is, like, definitely one of my favorites as well.
07:40And I learned a lot from this book, Eat, Pray, Love.
07:44But what I loved about this book is I feel like, you know, there's a lot of stigma on women.
07:54Stigmas on women.
07:56And that women kind of have to follow what society says we have to be.
08:02So it starts with Elizabeth, you know, in a relationship with her husband.
08:07She was not in a great place and she felt like she had to be married but she didn't want to be married.
08:13What I love about this book is she's teaching people to follow their own journey.
08:19If you want to be married and have kids, great.
08:21If you don't want to be married and you don't want to have kids, that's great too.
08:25Do whatever the hell you want to do.
08:27And that's what she did.
08:28She went around the world and she traveled.
08:31I took a lot from that.
08:32And I absolutely love her bravery and just her courage to follow her heart.
08:40And that's what I love about this book.
08:42Thank you guys so much for watching Shelf Portrait.
08:45I hope you guys liked my personal library.
08:48Make sure you check out Family Reunion on Netflix and don't forget to subscribe to Marie Claire.
08:53Bye guys!