Eva Longoria is inviting you to bed with her. The actress,entrepreneur and Beckham BFF debuted her new home line of bedroom furnishings forJCPenney in Los Angeles on April 23, but don’t think this foray into design isanything new. “A big secret is that I’m very domestic,” she tells HELLO!. “Alot of people don’t know that about me. I sew, and when I was young my motheralways told me ‘be sure you make a house a home, where ever you go.’ She didn’t care how crappy the apartment was,you’d better make sure it’s nice.”
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Not being able to afford the home decorations she wanted asa struggling young actress forced Eva to become her own domestic goddess. “Icouldn’t afford throw pillows or curtains. I would go to the fabric stores andget the cheap material, and I would make my own curtains,” she shares. “I wouldmake my own throw pillows, and I did that for many years. Even when I couldafford the throw pillows I still made my own.”
She had such a knack for it that her creations didn’t gounnoticed. “Eventually my friends loved my throwpillows and they were like ‘you should do a home line,’ and this was way beforeI was famous and I was like ‘oh, that’s what I want to do.’”
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And the time hasfinally come for her to make that happen. Eva teamed up with the departmentstore for her first home collection that consists of four unique designs. “I grew up withJCPenney. It was one of the biggest department stores in Texas and so togo to JCPenney was a big deal,” the 40-year-old explains. “JCPenney was myfirst credit card. I have kind of a long history with them.”
For thiscollection, she was inspired by her childhood. “Some ofmy best memories of my mom are when she used to put me to bed and it was a verycalming, traditional ritual every night of rubbing my head, tucking me in,” Evaexplains. “I always feel like your bedding should say something. I think yourbedding should call you. I just want to dive into my bed because I loveit so much.”
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Lately, the Desperate Housewive's alum has been sharing her bed with boyfriend Jose “Pepe”Antonio Baston, 45, who is the president of Televisa. The media mogul had hisfair share of opinions as Eva went through the design process. “I’ll show him everything, and he’ll belike ‘that’s very nice. That’s a little busy,’” she says. “I thinkhe was an interior designer in a past life.”
After bedding, apossible step toward clothing design like her fashionable pal Victoria Beckham isn’t out of the question for the Devious Maids producer. Eva states, “We have actually been in talks about it. Isew so much clothing as well that it would be an organic evolution.”
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Recently, Eva got to spend some quality time with Victoriaand family as they enjoyed their holiday in L.A. “I love every April to have her birthday andall of the fun stuff we get to do,” she mentions. “She misses L.A.” As for which bedding would be fit for Posh herself? “I think she would love the Marrakechbecause she is super modern and she doesn’t like a lot of patterns and prints,”Eva notes. “It’s simple.”
