Actress Tiffani Thiessen snags new staring roles as a chicken-keeper, homemaker, gardener and lifestyle brand manager.

BY KENNY COOGAN

During this time of being forced to slow down, homesteading can really feed so many parts of yourself — not just your belly,” says Tiffani Thiessen, who you might know more intimately as Kelly Kapowski, from the television show Saved by the Bell. The teen sitcom, about a group of friends at Bayside High School, originally aired on NBC for four seasons from 1989 to 1993 and is currently being rebooted with Thiessen reprising her role. You might also recognize her as Valerie Malone in Beverly Hills, 90210 (1994-1998) and more recently in Netflix’s Alexa & Katie.

In addition to being in front of the camera, Thiessen now enjoys being in front of her garden and kitchen.

She grows vegetables, preserves fruit, cooks family meals and keeps chickens in the backyard of her Los Angeles home, which she shares with her husband, actor/artist Brady Smith, and two children, Harper (10) and Holt (5).