Brenda Song became known for playing London Tipton on a Disney Channel series and later starred in family films featuring Asian American leads. She credits early Disney representation with shaping her sense of importance and heritage. She now stars in a Netflix project and has a family with a former child star. Aubrey Anderson-Emmons gained recognition on a long-running sitcom as a child and later graduated early from high school. They now release music under a different name and describe the change as accepting parts of themselves they disliked as a child. They also maintain close relationships with former co-stars.
""I feel like Disney Channel was really ahead of the curve when it came to representation in media very early on," Brenda told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. "Seeing a young Asian American lead was really important to me. On Disney, they were doing that really years before people were doing it. I mean, Wendy Wu - someone just told me it's about to be 20 years since that movie came out. That was my first titular character. Being able to talk about heritage and things like that, people weren't doing that back then.""
""I didn't really like my middle name when I was younger," she said. "So I think it's almost about accepting parts of me that I didn't like as a kid or not being afraid to pull those things forward." She has maintained close relationships with her Modern Family costars and has shared lots of adorable reunion content over the years."
"Brenda Song is '00s Disney Channel royalty, most famously playing THE London Tipton on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, but also starring in some of my all time fave DCOMs like Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior, Get A Clue, and Stuck in the Suburbs."
"Now 18, Aubrey graduated high school early last year. She releases music under the name Frances Anderson (her middle name). Last year, she opened up about the name change to People."
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