Why is my iPhone sending iMessages through my apple ID and not my phone number?

So this question is actually about my friends iPhone 4... She and I text on a daily basis and we use iMessages. As of two days ago, every time I sent her an iMessage, it would fail and I would have to send it as a text message. Well we finally figured out it was because her iMessages were turned off (probably by her 2 year old daughter.) So she turned them back on and she sent me an imessage. But when she sent the imessage and I received it, I received the message from her apple id, not her phone number which is what I normally receive her messages from. Her and I can't figure out how to change it back to her phone number.. Any ideas?
Thanks for the help.
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Have your friend go to Settings>Messages>Send and Receive and make sure that her phone number is checked. She can also remove the checkmark by her Apple ID email if desired.

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