Ashley Tisdale’s Daughter Watched High School Musical — and Thought Zac Efron Was Her Dad

Ashley Tisdale is sharing some of her past with her daughter.

Tisdale, 39, appeared on the Jan. 15 episode of the Breaking Beauty Podcast and one of the hosts asked her if her 3-year-old daughter Jupiter has watched any of her mom’s projects yet.

“She has seen High School Musical,” Tisdale revealed. “I think about a year ago, maybe my husband showed her it,” she added of Christopher French, whom she wed in 2014. “I was like, ‘What are you doing?’ ” the actress remembered.

But Jupiter didn’t exactly understand what she was watching. “She thought Zac Efron was her dad,” Tisdale said. “I was like, ‘No, that’s not Daddy,’ ” Tisdale recalled with a laugh. “Just cause they have dark hair, it’s not Daddy.”

Tisdale said that she doesn’t think Jupiter “realizes” yet what her mom’s job is, but, she noted, “She did start to get to the age where she’s questioning why people take pictures with me. And I truly did not know how to answer that.”

“I just said, ‘I don’t know,’ and my husband goes, ‘That’s what you said?’ ” the Frenshe founder said. “So I think she actually thinks you just take pictures with people.”

Tisdale and French welcomed their second child, daughter Emerson Clover, in September. “I definitely love it,” Tisdale told PEOPLE in December about being a girl mom.

“Obviously it’s my favorite thing, and it’s changed my life in so many ways,” The Suite Life of Zack & Cody star said. “I think it’s been the best time, and I’m so grateful.”

Of Jupiter, Tisdale said, “She is for sure loving being a big sis. I was the baby sister, so I never got to be the big sister. So I’m so glad that the girls have each other,”

Tisdale starred as Sharpay Evans in the original High School Musical as well as the two sequels, High School Musical 2 and High School Musical 3: Senior Year. She also reprised her role in a spin-off, Sharpay’s Fabulous Adventure. Tisdale has also voiced Candace in the beloved series Phineas & Ferb and will return for the show’s upcoming revival.

And though Tisdale’s Sharpay had her eyes set on Efron’s Troy in the HSM films, the actress revealed in 2022 that she never had a crush on her costar.

“It’s because I was friends with him before the movie,” she said on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast of the actor, now 37. “He was way younger than me. He was like a brother, too.”

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“I think I just knew him too well and had been best friends with him for so long that it’s like your brother that you’re hanging out with,” she said. The one time she did “understand” why fans thought Efron was hot, however, was his 2007 Rolling Stone cover.

Source People.com