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Nickelodeon star hasn’t aged a day 22 years after shock show axe as she prepares to welcome third child
There are conflicting reasons why the successful show was cancelled
A NICKELODEON star looks like she's ageing backwards 22 years after her show was axed.
Despite achieving huge viewing figures and landing guest appearances from the likes of Solange Knowles and Kelly Rowland, the Nickelodeon show was shelved for good in 2002.
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More than two decades later Taina star Christina Vidal appears to have barely aged a day - even though she is now 42-years-old and expecting her third child.
This week Christina took to Instagram to share snaps from her baby shower, showing her flaunting her blossoming bump in all white.
She wrote: "Just a perfect day! Thank you to all our friends and family her came out to celebrate with us. We love you all!"
Christina already shares daughters Willa and Ava with husband Marcus Mitchell.
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She starred as the title character in Taina from its launch in January 2001 until it was axed in May 2002.
It told the story of Taina Morales, a Puerto Rican teenager who dreamed of becoming a star while attending the Manhattan High School of the Performing Arts.
At the time of the series' cancellation there were reports it was becoming "too expensive to produce" but in 2021 Christina claimed there were other reasons.
She told the : "I think it had something to do with me getting a record deal.
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My attitude wasn't great
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"And, just not doing everything they wanted me to do. I wasn’t new to the business then - I was 20.
"I had a lawyer, I had people around me who knew my rights. This was a time when they had kids do a whole bunch of stuff without having any rights."
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But Christina also confessed that maybe she was part of the problem, telling in 2020: "I was just partying, I was late at times - sometimes unprepared.
"My attitude wasn’t great, I was exhausted and I was a kid trying to be responsible at work, but also being a teenager and going through normal teenager things."
After Taina was cancelled Christina continued to act and starred alongside Lindsay Lohan in the 2003 film Freaky Friday.
She most recently appeared in the 2023 Amazon series Primo, playing main character Rafa's mother Drea.
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