n December 6, Eva LaRue took to Instagram to marvel at the lovely young woman into whom her
daughter Kaya has grown. “And just like that… 23!” the actress exclaimed. “Happy, happy birthday
Bean!”
Kaya is the daughter of LaRue and her second husband, John Callahan, to whom she was married from 1996-2005). Throughout the ’90s, the couple were co-stars on All My Children, which cast them as supercouple-in-the-making Dr. Maria Santos and Edmund Grey. Visit Advertiser
Even after LaRue and Callahan split, they remained good friends. When he passed away in 2020, she said that she and Kaya were “devastated,” adding that his “bigger-than-life, gregarious personality will leave a hole in our hearts forever.”
On National Daughters Day, LaRue joked on social media, “If I say what I really feel about this beauty, she’ll say it’s ‘cringy.’ So… I love you… mind, heart and soul. That’s it. Carry on.” When Kaya graduated from Arizona State U, Mom remarked, “I have never been more proud, SweetPea! No need to try to fit in when you were born to stand out!”
In addition to All My Children, LaRue has worked extensively in primetime and was even a regular on CSI: Miami for years. After winning a 2020 Outstanding Guest Performer Emmy for The Young and the Restless (where she briefly played Celeste Rosales), she returned to daytime full-time in 2024 as she took on the role of Natalia Rogers-Ramirez on General Hospital.
