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THE 29-YEAR-OLD HAS COME A LONG WAY SINCE GRADUATING FROM HER DAYS. NOW ASHLEY IS STARRING IN A NEW SITCOM, LEADING A FEMALE-FRIENDLY PRODUCTION COMPANY AND RULING SOCIAL MEDIA, WITH A 43 MILLION–FOLLOWER FOOTPRINT. AND SHE’S GOT A HOT TIP ABOUT A NEW WORKOUT YOU HAVE TO TRY. BY AMY SPENCER // PHOTOGRAPHY BY JAMES WHITE Ashley Tisdale has always been My trainer has this amazing hungry to succeed—at first, class he opened called Rise almost literally. By the time Nation. It’s a climber, and a great she was 10 years old, the New class because you’re doing it to Jersey–born actress had been music and not by yourself on a in 100 commercials, most of machine. It’s 30 minutes but so them food-related. “I was always hard-core. I’m not a big spin fan. getting the food commercials because my ‘bite and react’— Why don’t you like to spin? where you take a bite of I’m going to be the spin hater something and you react after now. [Laughs] I used to do it—was really good. My mom SoulCycle, but a ton of trainers was like, ‘This kid loves to eat!’” have told me that spinning is she recalls, laughing. good but you’re not burning She’s still got that hunger as much as you think you are. for the right roles. This month, And it bulks you up in places Ashley stars in the TBS sitcom you probably don’t want. My Clipped, from the creators of body started to change for the Will & Grace. “This is my most better when I stopped doing it. I mature role,” Ashley says over also leaned out so much just by coffee at a café in Burbank, walking. Even if you do 12,000 Calif. “I have never felt more steps a day, you lose, like, a confident with who I am,” she pound a week. But you have to adds, talking with her hands, find the time. It takes so long! her fingernails a perfect light lavender. “I’m turning 30, so What do you have to work the maybe it has something to do hardest on to keep fit? with age, but I love it.” Diet, because I love food. You SIDEBAR BOX: Ashley’s Top As the founder of Blondie Girl can work out as much as you Tips for Healthy Summer Hair Productions, Ashley is also the want, but if your diet isn’t where 1. If I’m going to workout or executive producer of the sitcom it should be, you’re never going to the beach I’ll spray Argon Young & Hungry on ABC Family. to get to where you want to go. oil in, and then I’ll tie it up in And next year, she’ll appear in Just because you do an hour of a knot. It’s so good for your the indie film Drive, She Said, a exercise, what about the rest of ends because that’s where comedy with . But the hours of the day? [Laughs] you want it more hydrated. her favorite production of the An hour is not a lot. There are 2. Because I’m always past year was her own wedding: 23 more hours. What are you coloring my hair I do a Wella In September, she married going to do with them? mask. It’s a deep conditioner. musician Christopher French. I’ll just put it on once a week, As for how she keeps up her What’s your biggest regret? part my hair down the middle drive, she credits working out Not getting into working out and tie it back. every day. And before she leaves earlier. In my teens, when trying 3. I take vitamins for my hair, today to meet her trainer, she to be comfortable in my body, I skin, and nails: Dr. Perricone’s shares her secret to sticking wished I was more athletic. I was Hair & Nails. with workouts, what she regrets always pretty skinny. I didn’t 4. Dry shampoo is my most and why being tenacious is have any curves. I remember best friend. When you’re her biggest weapon. watching myself in High School constantly working out, you Musical 2. I had a lot of hair don’t want to completely What’s the most important and I was in a bathing suit and rewash your hair every single thing you do to feel great? I thought, “I just look like a time. It is not good—especially Dedicate at least an hour every bobblehead!” So when I was 22, for color treated hair. I just day to something fitness- I started working out. I also had spray dry shampoo in and I’m related. Any physical activity an upper-back injury that ended able to style it, too. helps your health and is also a up going into my lower back; I 5. For beachy waves, I’ll wash good stress reliever. Monday, would have this horrible pain no it at night and let it kind of air Wednesday and Friday I work matter what I did—even hanging dry. Then the next day I will with my trainer, Jason Walsh. I out. An expert said, “You need put more heat on it, because do kickboxing on Thursday. And to build your core so your back This page: it’s not as abrasive on the hair I’ll squeeze in a sculpt yoga class won’t hurt as much.” I started Babajaan swimsuit; from being wet to drying right on, like, Tuesday. working out, and I’ve never felt babajaancollection.com. away. If you use beach spray that pain again. And when we Page 110: Babajaan (I like Bumble and Bumble’s), bikini; babajaan What workouts do you like were in concert, I also needed collection.com. you can mold it.” most and least? the stamina to sing and dance. I Barneys New York Yoga is my favorite thing to do would hit the gym in every city, pumps; barneys .com. because it’s so much more and I would run while singing at than a workout. It’s a spiritual these hotel gyms. People would “IT’S THE and mentally-good-for-you see me and be like, “What is this experience. Cardio is not chick doing?” [Laughs] SCAN TO HARDER THINGS my favorite. I usually do the SHOP! SCAN THIS PHOTO THAT MAKE StairMaster, but to be on one Do you have any health fears? TO PURCHASE THE machine for a long time? It’s My mom has diabetes, so ITEMS IN THIS STORY (LEARN YOU WHO YOU hard for me to just stay there. knowing that, I’m more health- CREDITS: HOW ON PAGE 4). ARE.”

112 HEALTH.COM JUNE 2015 PHOTOGRAPHY BY NAME MONTH 2015 HEALTH.COM 113 conscious. But it also scares me You’ve been a public figure for Is that your goal with the to think about how much time so long. Is there something production company—to tell ASHLEY’S we’re on our phones and in front people still get wrong or female-driven stories? “I REMEMBER TELLING of the TV. When I was younger, misunderstand about you? Oh, it’s been that from the very TOP TIPS we didn’t have . We didn’t Oh, yeah. I think people have a start. It’s always been about MY FRIENDS, have . I catch myself perspective of me that I’m this women. That’s what we’re where I’ve been on it for way too blonde and I just like to shop. interested in; that’s what the FOR ‘YOU KNOW YOU’VE long. It’s not OK. I’m deeper than what people brand is. It’s cool. That is so HAD A GOOD DAY WHEN expect. Even with my production important to cheer on. HEALTHY Last I checked, you have company, people think I have YOU’VE MADE ROBIN nearly 12.8 million Twitter somebody else running it, but You once said that Robin SUMMER followers! Do you ever have then they start to see, “Wow, Williams was an inspiration WILLIAMS LAUGH.’” an “oops” moment, where you she does do it.” to you, and then you HAIR type something you regret? guest-starred with him on The Yeah. And then I delete it. Do you feel that when you Crazy Ones. Did you get to [Laughs] There have been so go into meetings you have know him? 1 many times in the past where to prove yourself a little bit He was one of the nicest “If I’m going to work I’ve been like, “I should not more? How do you do it? people. Whenever I was around out or go to the beach, have said that.” Work really hard. In anything I’ve Robin, I just wanted to hug I’ll spray argan oil in ever gotten, if something comes him the entire time. He was and tie it up in a knot. Like when? easy, it’s probably not going to just a humble, nice man. And It’s so good for your Like in my past relationships, be as good. Even with Clipped, for how many years he’d been ends because that’s I used to passive-aggressively I kept having to go in to prove doing this, he was the most where you want it more tweet. When I got out of one that I was this character. I was professional person. He was the hydrated.” relationship, I said something like, “I can do this.” I’m used to first one on his mark—he would like “Fool me once, shame on playing sarcastic characters be waiting for everybody else. It you. Fool me twice, shame with the snippy little lines, and was funny because at the first 2 on me.” I was like, “I probably this is more of the girl that table read, I was so nervous “Because I’m always shouldn’t have shared that with everyone wants to hang out because was coloring my hair, everybody.” [Laughs] with. From to High sitting at the table. And he sometimes I’ll comb School Musical—for every single laughed out loud at one of my coconut oil through What happened with that one of those projects, I had to go lines. I remember telling my and part it down the relationship? back in more than usual just to friends, “You know you’ve had middle with a low We obviously weren’t right for prove I could do it. a good day when you’ve made bun. That way, you’re each other, but for some reason Robin Williams laugh.” conditioning and have a I thought I needed to be in it. The How do you keep confident in cute style!” first time we broke up, it was those big career moments? Who else has been an shattering because I didn’t see it That’s what excites me. I will inspiration? coming. So then I built up walls work my hardest to prove to I also looked up to Brittany 3 because I didn’t want to get you that I am this character. Murphy, growing up. I met her “I take vitamins for hurt again. But I ended up back And that’s the most rewarding backstage at a Kids’ Choice my hair, skin and nails: in it. There was just this one because it’s that much better Awards. I was doing pilots, but Cynthia Rowley Perricone MD Hair & moment where we had broken when you actually get it. they weren’t getting picked wetsuit; Nails Formula.” up again, and I was like, “You up. You kind of get to this point cynthiarowley.com. know what? This is such a cycle Do you feel women in where you’ve done it for so that is not healthy, and it’s not Hollywood are embracing long where you’re like, “Is 4 OK.” I was shooting a movie and their power more these days? this what I’m supposed to be I was like, “I love myself, and I It’s a really exciting time for doing?” I was just like, “I am “Dry shampoo is my love being by myself, so what am women. A couple of months your biggest fan.” She said, “Are best friend. When you’re constantly I in this for?” And I just ended it. ago, I had dinner with my you an actress? OK, you gotta STYLING BY KAREN I would go over to that guy girlfriends. One of my friends keep going. Whatever you do, working out, you don’t SHAPIRO want to completely now and be like, “Thank you had booked an episode of never give up.” She pinkie- HAIR BY CAMPBELL so much because I wouldn’t something, I had booked this promised me, and it was such rewash your hair every McAULEY FOR have been ready to be in this indie movie and Vanessa a boost of confidence. I always time; it’s not good— CELEBRITY STYLE/ relationship [with my husband].” Hudgens was starting Gigi want to be that person for especially for color- SOLO ARTISTS It’s the harder things that make on Broadway. So it became others, but I am very shy. treated hair. I just spray MAKEUP BY you who you are. a celebration that all of our dry shampoo in and I’m MATTHEW able to style it, too.” VANLEEUWEN FOR friends were kicking ass. I feel Really? LANCÔME AT THE Congratulations on your like it’s so important to support Whenever I’m meeting WALL GROUP other women and their dreams. somebody, I’m very quiet. marriage, by the way. What 5 NAILS BY MILLIE do you most appreciate about My production company— People think I’m super outgoing, MACHADO USING your life with Christopher? Blondie Girl Productions—is me but I’m a private person. And I’m “For beachy waves, I’ll BUTTER LONDON AT We are best friends. We and my sister, and every time I definitely shy. wash it at night and let it TRACEYMATTINGLY completely balance each other meet a female producer, I’m like, kind of air-dry. Then the .COM out. He’s a very good listener. “Yeah, let’s do this” because With all you have going on, next day I’ll put more And he’s the most patient man usually it’s a lot of dudes! It’s what is your biggest goal for heat on it because it’s I have ever met. I’m not very a hard business to break into. this year? not as abrasive on the patient. I’m such an energetic It’s hard to tell women’s stories I’m so excited to be back on hair as going from wet person, I’ll get into these because they don’t know where television. One of my main to dry. If you use beach “Wanna dance?” moments. I the audience is for female- goals is to win an Emmy for best spray (I like Bumble think it’s the kid in me. But he driven movies. But it’s like, look actress. I guess I’ve always loved and Bumble’s), you can

allows me to be who I am. at Bridesmaids! We are there! just making people laugh. mold your hair.” CREDITS:

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