Kristina Louise “Tina” Yothers (created May 5, 1973) is an American actress and vocalist. Yothers started her performing career in television ads at age three. Her first film character was in the 1981 television movie The Cherokee Trail. She also appeared in the 1982 feature film Shoot the Moon. Her most famous character was as Jennifer Keaton, the younger daughter in the television comedy Family Ties from 1982 to 1989. When Family Ties finished, Yothers left her blond hair color and has since worn it black. She composed the novel Being Your Best’: Tina Yothers’s Guide for Girls and formed the group Jaded together with her brother Cory. She supplied the lead vocals while Cory played keyboard. Added musicians were Phil Jordan from the Orange County group No Doubt on Trumpet, as well as a DJ, name unknown. Formerly, Yothers sang a cover of The Raes tune “Baby I’m Back In Love Again”, which she’d later record as one, in a Family Ties episode “Band on the Run” (first tx: Feb 26, 1987).
She's 5 months pregnant with her second child, and due around August 2007. [April 2007]
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Sings lead in a band called "Jaded", in which her brother, Cory 'Bumper' Yothers, is the keyboardist. [2000]
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Children: (with Kaiser) Lillian "Lilly" Grace Kaiser (b. October 2005) and Robert Jake "Jake" Kaiser (b. September 24, 2007 at Orange County Hospital at 8.8 lbs).
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Ranked #46 in VH1's list of the "100 Greatest Kid Stars"
She met her foster sister Tina while volunteering.
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April 2004 - Cast in the lead of "Lovelace The Musical", a stage show based on the life of former porn star Linda Lovelace.
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Got engaged to boyfriend Robert Kaiser (25 December 2001).
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Documents in a lawsuit give her date of birth as 1968. The lawsuit was filed by her PR agency for nonpayment. [November 2001]
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Was sick with the flu on her first day of filming Family Ties (1982); she ran to the bathroom every 5 minutes, and was afraid that the producers would fire her.