Tiffani Thiessen celebrates her 50th birthday with mini-me daughter Harper, 13… after Saved By The Bell star won raves for posing NUDE

Tiffani Thiessen celebrated her 50th birthday on Tuesday with a fancy Mediterranean dinner.

The Saved By The Bell star – who was 15-years-old when she first started playing Kelly Kapowski in the classic TV sitcom – looked slender in a dark coat as she entered the restaurant Casalena in Woodland Hills, California with her family.

She was joined by husband Brady Smith, 52, and their two children – daughter Harper, 13, and son Holt, eight. 

The brunette beauty also posted images to Insta Stories from her big night out.

She enjoyed a creamy pasta dish with parsley and a red meat dinner with mashed potatoes and carrots. Afterwards she treated herself to an ice cream Sundae at Baskin-Robbins. ‘Ending the night right… with a hot fudge sundae,’ she shared.

This comes after the Beverly Hills, 90210 star posed nude in her bed to proudly say, ‘This is 50!’

In one of her Insta Story snaps she is seen in a one-shoulder brown top with a chunky gold necklace and gold hoop earrings.

Tiffani’s brown hair was cut into a clean and sassy bob. 

She was sitting next to her two kids at the table of Casalena as she writes over the image, ‘I’m so lucky.’ There was a white heart emoji on top.

On the marble table was a dessert with pink orchids and a lit candle on top.

Tiffani’s outfit was snazzy: in addition to the brown one-shoulder top she had on wide-legged plaid slacks.

The star carried a black structured purse as she flashed long clear nails and added several gold rings. 

Her mini-me girl wore a very long black dress with silver hoop earrings and a black leather coat with zippers.

She also carried a black Chanel purse with a gold chain strap and had on white platform sneakers as her highlighted hair was worn stick straight and she added light makeup.

Thiessen’s son had on a black T-shirt with a necklace. In the ice cream snap she leans her head toward her boy who added a black motorcycle jacket.

Husband Brady had a black blazer over a black button-down shirt with dark gray slacks. 

Her nude image fired up the Internet.

The brunette beauty looked tanned and toned as she held up a sheet to her chest to protect her modesty with her dark locks flowing down one side in a photograph by Rebecca Sanabria on Tuesday.

‘Over the hill,’ the TV star wrote in her caption even though she looked anything but over the hill. 

The looker added the hashtag for ‘This is 50.’ 

The comments were pretty intriguing. 

Sarah Michelle Gellar said, ‘Looks pretty [three fire emojis] to me,’ while Valerie Bertinelli called her ‘a hot mama’ and her former SBTB costar Mario Lopez said, ‘Welcome to the 5th level kid!’

Mario turned 50-years-old in October. 

Jennifer Love Hewitt also chimed in: ‘Happy Birthday! I remember knowing you as a teenager and hoping to be as gorgeous as you one day! And I still feel the same! You make 50 look great! ❤️’

Jenna Fischer added, ‘Well done. Starting the 50s exactly right. Happy birthday!’ 

Vanessa Lachey and Brittany Cartwright hit the like button. 

Last year Tiffani admitted even over the last decade she has changed her outlook and learned not to care what people think.

Noting her ‘confidence wasn’t 100 percent’ when she turned 40.

She added: ‘When I was turning 40, I feel like I had more personal pressure on myself to look the best I could.

‘I feel so much more at ease now than I did even ten years ago. I don’t know if it’s me just not giving a s***.’

The mum of two – who has son Holt Fisher, three, and 13-year-old daughter Harper – noted that her ‘body was changing so much hormonally and mentally’ when she was having her children.

Now, she’s ‘at a good place’ and focused on ‘raising happy, healthy kids that are going to do well for themselves and society’.

When it comes to staying healthy herself, she explained: ‘I’m doing it for myself, I’m doing it for my kids, my husband.

Thiessen has been married to Brady Smith since 2005. 

‘I want to be around for as long as possible of course, to be able to see my kids grow up and have kids of their own, and all those things that are much more important to me now.’ 

She also said she felt an ‘added pressure of what people were saying’ when she starred on SBTB.

Appearing on the Good Instincts podcast from Dear Media, Tiffani told host and dietitian Shira Barlow: ‘I think people will say things, you know, and maybe expect me to look a certain way, yes.

‘But I mean, it’s just not realistic. I can only age the way I’m going to age, right? 

‘I’m the best I can be and I’m taking care of myself and doing things that I know will benefit the outside exterior of myself that people are seeing.’

‘But yeah, those people don’t know what’s happening on the inside, right? Because that’s what actually helps the outside.’

In 2020 she shared a swimsuit photo when she was conducting ‘research’ as she embarked on a ‘character study’ ahead of her Saved By The Bell reboot.

The star dug up an old swimsuit picture of herself from the original run of the sitcom, which ran from 1989 to 1993.

Tiffani captioned the picture: ‘#tbt #research #characterstudy,’ adding a heart emoji.

During the show her character worked as a lifeguard and the swimsuit look Tiffani posted to Instagram was the uniform for that job.

The reboot lasted only two seasons.

She dished to Hollywood Life that she thinks the key to staying in shape is to not ‘panic’ if you gain a little weight.

‘What is panic going to do?’ she asked. ‘They say stress actually adds pounds, so if I stress it’s going to be worse, right?’

She added that she ‘always tries to live her life in balance,’ which includes the way she eats. She shared: ‘I’ve never been one to go extreme either way [with dieting].

‘I’ve never been one to eat bad all the time and I’ve never been one to always be healthy. I’m like an 80-20 per cent kind of person.

‘I try to be because I love food. I love to cook… Eating a salad three times a day is not always what I want to do. So, I think it’s all about balance.’

Thiessen was born in Long Beach, California and participated in beauty pageants at a young age. She was crowned Miss Junior America in 1987. 

She then modeled for Teen magazine for years before being cast on Saved By The Bell. She was on the series from 1989 until 1993.

At the same time she guest-starred on series such as Married… with Children, Charles in Charge and Step by Step.

In 1992, she starred in the TV movie Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style.

She then continued with starring in spin-off Saved by the Bell: The College Years in its single season (1993–94) and in television movie Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas (1994).

Next came Beverly Hills, 90210; she stepped in after Shannen Doherty exited the high school drama.

Then came more TV movies: The Stranger Beside Me (1995) and She Fought Alone (1995), Sweet Dreams and Buried Secrets in 1996 and the films Speedway Junky (1999), From Dusk Till Dawn 2: Texas Blood Money (1999), Love Stinks (1999) and The Ladies Man (2000).

In 2015, Thiessen reunited with Saved By the Bell costars Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Elizabeth Berkley, Dennis Haskins and Mario Lopez on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in which they appeared in a Saved by the Bell sketch.