Tia Mowry has been putting her wedding ring to good use following her divorce from ex-husband Cory Hardrict, as she revealed on the latest episode of her reality show: My next act.

Mowry revealed plans to have her band made into jewelry for her two children, 13-year-old son Cree and 6-year-old daughter Cairo, to give the ring a second life after her divorce in 2022. “I’m already wearing it not for almost two years,” she says in the second episode of the series We television. “It just doesn’t feel right to sell it, but what I want to do is turn my wedding ring into something for my kids.”

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Mowry, who married Hardrict in 2008, tearfully explained that the decision to repurpose the ring brought up mixed feelings about her ex. “It’s sad because this is a symbol of marriage and it’s not that anymore,” she says to the camera. “It’s hard for me not to think of Cory when I decide to repurpose my wedding ring.”

“I’m learning that ultimately I have to make this decision for myself,” she adds. “And I think he’s doing well because it’s going to the kids.”

Mowry takes the band to a Los Angeles jewelry maker, who agrees to repurpose it into a dog tag necklace for her son and a bracelet for her daughter.

“I just think it’s so beautiful to transform something that was given out of love and give it to your children,” Mowry says. “It just makes me feel like my marriage wasn’t a waste.”

Mowry filed for divorce from Hardrict in October 2022. In the first episode of Hardrict’s reality show, she revealed that she came to the decision after growing tired of putting on a front in public.

“I got tired of not being authentic and living in my truth,” Mowry said. “I got tired of showing up at events and people thinking everything was perfect when it wasn’t. I would go home and feel alone.”

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