Where Wizards of Waverly Place star Jennifer Stone is now- from Selena Gomez’s sidekick to ER nurse
LIFE has changed a lot for one star of Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place, who has ditched acting for a more selfless job. Jennifer Stone is best known for playing Harper Finkle on the show, and recently reunited with her Wizards co-star in a nostalgic Tiktok. She was born on February 12, 1993, in […]
LIFE has changed a lot for one star of Disney Channel’s Wizards of Waverly Place, who has ditched acting for a more selfless job.
Jennifer Stone is best known for playing Harper Finkle on the show, and recently reunited with her Wizards co-star in a nostalgic Tiktok.
She was born on February 12, 1993, in Arlington, Texas.
Jennifer has one older brother and is the daughter of Christy Stone and her husband.
Her life is kept pretty private from the media, especially since she left acting.
She does, however, keep up to date with her social media, letting fans get a small glimpse into her private life.
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The 29-year-old quit Hollywood to go to college, where she first studied psychology and then switched over to nursing.
Since starring in all four seasons of Wizard of Waverly Place as Harper, Alex Russo’s (Selena Gomez) best friend who wore eccentric clothing, Jennifer has only starred in a few roles since.
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, Wizards of Waverly Place: Alex Vs. Alex, Mean Girls 2, Dadnapped, Harriet the Spy: Blog Wars, and Deadtime Stories are only a few of the roles Jennifer took on.
Her family highly valued getting a degree and she didn’t want to be the only one, so she turned her focus to school.
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Find out what she is up to now and how she is saving her life and the lives of many others.
A SCARY DIAGNOSIS
When Jennifer was 20 years old, she was diagnosed with latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA), which is sometimes referred to as 1.5 type Diabetes.
She left acting shortly after getting her diagnosis.
Jennifer revealed to Beyond Type 1 in 2018 that she wanted to study nursing to “better understand her disease.”
“More than learning the semantics of beta-cells and autoimmune disorders. I wanted to understand my body and the impact of Type 1,” she told them.
After her doctors told her to quit acting a move home because the stress of Type 1 diabetes would be too hard for someone in her field, she looked for different doctors.
That same year, she shared her story on the Diabetes Connections podcast and how her diagnosis affected her life and career.
COPING WITH COVID
On top of dealing with her diagnosis and trying to keep her life private, Jennifer got thrown with another crisis- COVID-19.
She graduated from nursing school and is now working in the ER at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, as of 2020, according to Deadline.
Jennifer landed her job at the ER just ad the COVID-19 pandemic was taking off.
As for how she dealt with the pandemic, Jennifer told the outlet, “I can only speak for myself because I think every nurse and person has their own way of processing life. I think, as a nurse, you’re just hit with it a lot more upfront and to be honest, I look at it this way: During a 12-hour shift, it’s not about me. It’s about putting myself aside to help somebody else.”
“I try to stay really focused during those 12 hours to be as effective and helpful as I can and then just decompress when I get home. I’m a big fan of bubble baths, Drag Race and watching medical shows, so I could watch somebody else do it,” she continued.
Jennifer added that she has really supportive family and friends that she can talk to at any time.
WIZARD’S REUNION
Jennifer and Selena broke Tiktok when the friends reunited for a video.
They danced and mouthed the words to The Crazy Hat Song while holding up drinks and laughing.
“We had to…” Selena captioned the video.
The video racked over 18 million views and 6.1 million likes and counting.
The Crazy Hat Song was a skit the two performed on Wizards and became memorable in the fandom.
Also in 2020, Jennifer, David Henrie, and Greg Sulkin all reunited to recreate the scene from Wizards.
WHAT SHE’S DOING NOW
Besides being a nurse, Jennifer likes to read, visit Disney, post throwback pictures, and occasionally act.
She is currently filming The Perfect Night and is involved in other projects while working 12-hour shifts at the ER.
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Last year, she starred in and was the screenwriter for the short film, The In-Between.
It looks like Jennifer is going to keep living her life to the fullest.
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