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‘Fixer Upper’ Star Joanna Gaines Gives Fans a Rare, Relatable Look at Her Messy Attic
Joanna Gaines is proving she’s not so different from the rest of us.
The Fixer Upper star, 48, gave followers an unfiltered peek into her Waco, Texas, attic in a Tuesday, June 30 Instagram Reel, poking her head out from behind a wall stacked with bins before greeting the camera. “Hi everyone, I’m Joanna Gaines. Welcome to my attic,” she said, adding with a laugh, “because I’m very proud of my attic.”
“We are shooting some rooms in the house today, which has forced me to hide and face the reality that I have a problem,” she said in the social media post. “But I want to show you some of my favorite things in here. A walk down memory lane.”
That walk started with a callback to her earliest business days. “When I used to do my little shop on Bosque, you guys, this was the stuff I would sell,” she said, holding up a cake plate stand. “I would collect all this white dinnerware and make cake plate stands. How cute was this? A big seller at Magnolia, circa 2005.”
Next came a practical keepsake: a walking boot. “This, just in case,” she joked. “When you have five kids you never know when you’re going to need the boot. So not letting go of the boot.”
She and her husband, Chip, 51, have five children together: sons Drake, 21, Duke, 18, and Crew, 8, as well as daughters Ella, 19, and Emmie, 16.
The tour took a wig-filled turn when Gaines pulled out a brown hairpiece and put it on. “So this is from my first collection of wigs. And this one was a hit,” she said, before admitting, “I have no idea why there is a wig up here but I promise it’s not mine.”
She wrapped the clip with a candid confession and a public service announcement of sorts. “I’m on my own today guys, and I’m feeling sick to my stomach and I’m regretting some choices,” she said. “And I’m also here to say, clean your attics, folks. It’s summertime.”
Fans flooded the comments with their own relatable reactions, with one writing, “‘Registered for these, I’ve never once used these’ is the most relatable thing on the internet today,” while another simply cheered, “We all have the same attic! Yay!”
