Eva Longoria is more "domestic" than people think.
Eva Longoria
The 40-year-old actress - who recently launched her own line of soft furnishings with JCPenny and launched her own cookbook - claims used to make her own curtains and pillows because she "couldn't afford them" when she first moved to Hollywood.
She said: "People don't realise how domestic I am. I had this s**t apartment, and my aunt Elsa would come over. She'd get so mad if I didn't have curtains or nice pillows. I couldn't afford them, so she was like, 'Then you need to make them.' So I would go to the fabric store and get discount fabric, and I would sew my own throw pillows."
Eva decided to take a break from acting after 'Desperate Housewives' came to an end in 2012 because she wanted to focus on her charity work.
She said: "I didn't want to work. You get tired."
But she admits working on the TV series was relatively easy.
She said: "I rolled out of bed, went to set, said my lines, and went back home."
The brunette beauty, who has a degree in kinesiology, originally hoped to work in the NFL but entered a beauty pageant because she "just needed the money" which led her to Los Angeles.
She explained to America's InStyle magazine: "I wanted to be a sports trainer for the Dallas Cowboys."
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