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Tori Spelling took a trip down memory lane while recalling posing for a cover of a magazine in 2000.
“October 2000 for Stuff Magazine! ✨,” Spelling, 51, wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, November 20. “This was all about me showing that a good girl, aka Donna Martin, could still be a character based on faith, family, kindness, morals, strength, and mindfulness, while owning her allure and Sєxuality.”
“I embraced my own style and showed a different side of Tori too,” she continued. “It was so freeing to step out of how others saw me and into my own confidence.”
Spelling shared several images from the magazine where she graced the cover and posed with minimal clothing. The pH๏τo shoot was in stark contrast to the character she played on Beverly Hills, 90210 — the virginal Donna Martin — and came months after the series came to an end in May 2000.
Beverly Hills, 90210 centered around twins Brandon (Jason Priestley) and Brenda Walsh (Shannen Doherty) who moved from Minneapolis to Beverly Hills, California, and befriend the likes of Donna, Dylan McKay (Luke Perry), Kelly Taylor (Jennie Garth), David Silver (Brian Austin Green) and Steve Sanders (Ian Ziering).
Years after Beverly Hills, 90210, came to close, much of the OG cast reunited for a reboot тιтled BH90210. “We are all so excited to go back to work together because it’s like family coming back together,” Spelling exclusively told Us Weekly in 2019. “It’s like going back to a high school reunion, but then like never leaving each other again. We all love each other very much and we’re excited.”
The show was canceled later that year, but the cast members have still found a way to stay connected. In 2020, Spelling and Garth launched their rewatch podcast, “9021OMG,” where they talk behind-the-scenes details from the show.
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While reflecting on her connection to former cast members, Garth exclusively told Us that she and Spelling “became sisters right away” when they first met on set of Beverly Hills, 90210.
“We were all just super close at different times but felt like a family and like sisters,” Garth told Us in May. “That’s a bond we created as young girls, so I don’t think it’ll ever be broken. Tori and I love each other so much. We’re super different people. We’ve always talked about [how we’re] kind of opposites in a lot of ways. And I just love her.”
The comments are similar to those Spelling said of Garth in the 2000 magazine interview. “Jennie Garth is like my sister,” Spelling said at the time. “Any time Jennie and I had a scene in the beach apartment, which Jason always called the b— apartment, we just couldn’t keep a straight face. To the point where it’d be 10 p.m. on a Friday night and everybody wanted to go home, and we just couldn’t pull it together. You think, ‘OK, I’m gonna get this one,’ and you stand there and look at your costar off-camera and tears are pouring out of her eyes from laughing so hard.”