Jessica Alba shares the emotional moment she surprised her parents with a soon-to-be-renovated house — but it wasn’t just any house!
On Friday, August 30, Trigger warning actress — who teams up with host Lizzy Mathis on their Roku Original series Fair renovations — shared a video on her YouTube channel about the “special renovation” the couple was behind: her father’s childhood home.
“Almost three years ago I started the project of my dreams… I surprised my parents by buying a house!! 🤩🏠🎉🎁 Now, it wasn’t just any house — it was extra sentimental because it was my grandfather’s house my father grew up in 🥹” , 43-year-old Alba wrote in the description of the video.
“After my grandfather passed away, my parents planned to sell the house to pay for my grandmother’s medical bills. So…I pretended like I was going to help them flip it before the sale, when in reality I was planning to buy it for them all along .”
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Alba revealed in the video that the family home will be “put up for sale,” given that her grandmother requires 24/7 care, so she decided to update it with the help of Mathis and a family friend (and contractor) named Tinku.
After gutting the house and locking down the floor plans, Alba broke the news to her parents in part of a video shot in June 2021 and released this week.
“The last piece of the puzzle is I’ve been trying to figure out how to tell you that I’m going to buy you this house,” Alba said. “So don’t buy it yourself.”
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The video then cut to footage of Alba hugging her parents – Mark and Catherine – as they became visibly emotional. “Now the house you grew up in, dad, is yours,” Alba said, before Mark sat down and covered his face, telling his daughter that her grandfather would be “proud of you.”
“I know you would be very proud of my little girl,” he added later. “I get to live in the house and hopefully make him proud.”
Mark Alba, Jessica Alba, Catherine Jensen seen at the Los Angeles premiere of ‘LUZIA’ by Cirque du Soleil on December 12, 2017.
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While the house surprise can now be viewed on YouTube, Alba teased at the end of the video that part two – where fans can see the renovation process – is coming soon.
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“Even watching this trailer in retrospect, I’m filled with so many emotions – after keeping this big secret, letting my parents in on the surprise, followed by many months of work to make the house perfect for my parents, I can’t believe it that this really happened,” wrote Alba in the description of the video.
“Grampers, this is for you — we love and miss you more than you know 🫶🏽❤️ Now, a big shout out to my partners in crime – @lizzymathis, Tink and everyone else who helped make this dream a reality – I couldn’t do this without you!”
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