Jennie Garth: Her Life as a Mom

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2006

Mommy and me shopping date! Luca joined Garth to shop till she dropped at a Los Angeles Toys R Us.

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2007

The actress tended to little Fiona while getting made up before she competed on ABC's Dancing With the Stars.

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2008

Thanks, Mom! Garth arranged some face time for her daughters with the Jonas Brothers at a Burbank, Calif. event at Walt Disney Studios.

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2010

The way they were! Garth and then-husband Peter Facinelli put on a happy face with their daughters at the 1st annual Milk + Bookies Story Time Celebration in L.A.

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2010

"They have always put the kids' needs first," says a mutual pal of Garth (with Luca at a soccer game) and Facinelli. "Even when they were having trouble in the marriage, they were always committed to raising the kids together."

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2012

"When I had the kids and became a mom, I kind of put the wife thing on the back burner," Garth (with Luca) said in 2009.

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2012

Garth's divorce will be chronicled on her upcoming CMT series, Jennie: A Little Bit Country, which focuses on her life on a farm in California's Santa Ynez Valley. "Jennie's hoping to enjoy a simpler life," says a source. "She's recharging, getting back to her roots."

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2012

"Being out here on my own with the girls is not going to be easy, but I know it's the right thing for us right now," the twice-divorced star (sans her wedding ring in March, post-split) says in a confessional from her CMT series, premiering April 20. "I feel it in my heart. I'm excited about what's next."

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2012

Though they officially confirmed their split on March 13, Garth and Facinelli (shopping with their girls March 25) have been apart for some time, say sources. "It's been over for months, maybe even a year," says one insider of the couple, who wed in 2001.

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2012

"We're doing great," Garth (with Luca at the 2012 Kids Choice Awards March 31), recently told Access Hollywood. "My life is a little hectic right now and my personal life is kind of crazy so this is what I need and what the girls need right now," she added of the change in pace that brought her family from L.A. to a seven-acre countryside farm in central California.