Mi Reina

Architectural Digest 2

"Buenos dias, buenos dias, buenos dias, buenos dias." Jose quickly says like he does in his instagram stories. "Let's continue this tour."

"Let me show them the glam room quickly." I say as I walk ahead of them, I open the door into my glam room and cringe at the mess that I've made. I shut the door and turn back to the film crew, "I just remembered that the glam room is under reconstruction, sorry."

Jose laughs because he knows that my glam room is a complete mess since he walked in on me doing my makeup earlier on. 

Since our son was born, I have only worn makeup for his welcome home party and baptism. Today was the first time that I had to do real glam alone and since I hadn't been in my glam room for a couple of weeks, I couldn't remember where anything was. I took all the drawers out and spread everything out on the floor.

Jose takes over by giving them an exclusive tour of the recording studio and our two floor subterranean garage. I smile at how excited Jose gets as he talks about the birthday party that I threw him.

"This is our gym." Jose says while walking inside of our gym that used to be a shed.

"In three weeks, I will be back here to shed all of this baby weight." I say as I shield my body away from their peering eyes. 

"You're perfect the way you are." Jose comments and I blush.

"Let's go outside." I say directing all attention off me. "This is the first part of our backyard and it look how simple it is. It has that old Hollywood theme running through it which just makes it look very chic and effortless."

"Take a shot every time she says look." Jose wink at the camera and I pretend to flip him off.

"Prior to entering the garden, we have lounge section on the patio so we didn't feel the need to overdo it by adding more lounge chairs."I gesture towards the house.

"This is the pool house where we keep the first aid kit, extra towels, lotion, robes and slippers." Jose lists and I nod my head. 

"WE ALSO HAVE A JACUZZI!" I pretend to jump in.

"Kandice will literally just sit in the jacuzzi all day, she lives for it." 

"To our right we have our basketball and tennis court but we are going to show you the other part of our garden." I smile as Jose and I lead the way.

"In London they have a lot of wooden benches in their parks so we decided to incorporate that here because we always go to London." Jose chuckles as we continue down the path. At some point we begin to hold hands and I'm not mad at it.

"Behind the hedges we have the guest house. We initially thought of tearing it down but we decided that the guests would need their privacy too so we kept it." I explain as we begin to walk down the long steps.

"We have another pool here which we sometimes escape to." Jose says. "If we get into a bad argument then I usually am the one to stay at the guest house."

I feel a ping of sadness as I remember that we are going through a divorce.

"To the side of the guest house we have a small fire pit." I let go of Jose's hand and I show them how it works. "It's great for the cool evenings and just for those days when we have guests over for a night of relaxation."

We walk back to the other garden and towards the basketball court where we have two golf carts. 

"We have these bad boys because we are planning to build a golf court." I tell them as I get on one and Jose gets on the other. We both drive the camera crew back to the front of our house, giving them an exclusive tour of the small wooded forest that we own. 

"That's the end of our tour." Jose says with a smile. 

"Thank you for joining us for a tour around our home." I blow them a kiss before I get back on my golf cart. "Jose, race you back."

"Gotcha." I let out a gleeful scream as we race.