Janette Manrara

It was literally a room.

Yeah.

It was tough financially for us growing up.

I remember I had like one pair of shoes for years and I kept like trying to figure out ways to extend them because my feet were starting to get cramped at the front.

Or same pair of jeans for a long time and my mom would just extend the bottom until she couldn't anymore.

Yeah.

But we grew up, even though we didn't have a lot, we had so much warmth and happiness and love in our house.

And my mom and my dad, even though we didn't have a lot, they just made sure that whatever money we did have, we saved and we went to Disney World.

Or we went to the beach for a weekend, you know, and just kind of created magic in the best way they possibly could with what they had.

So I feel like I grew up in the most wonderful, wonderful home.

You need love and connection.

How do you feel that your house compares now to growing up?

So my mom, and she will happily admit this, my mom was never a great cook.

So my grandmother did a lot of the cooking, but that meant that my mom loves tidying up.

So our house was always immaculate growing up.

And I think now they say you turn into your mother.

Yes, they do, yeah.

I'm turned into her because I am not a good cook.

Do you have people over, though, to entertain?

I mean, we don't have any family here in the UK.