The Pacquiaos' bubbly baby, Princess, takes after her fashionista mom. At one year old (at the time of the YES! interview), Princess is already an endorser of Looms, a clothing line for kids.
In this photo, Jinkee is wearing a beige-and-black dress by BCBG Max Azria, one of Jinkee's favorite designer brands.
The living room of the Pacquiao home, in the exclusive Brentville Subdivision in Biñan, Laguna, has two contrasting motifs—contemporary (foreground) and traditional (background).
There's an explanation for this, and it's not strictly stylistic. The place where the Pacquiaos now stay used to be a duplex. When they decided to buy both units of the duplex, they knocked down the wall between the units to get more living space. Each unit came completely furnished, and the Pacquiaos simply retained the existing furniture of each one.
The post beside the gray couch is where the wall that divided the two units of the duplex used to be. The combined two-story units have a total floor area of 820 square meters, with six bedrooms, eight bathrooms, two maids' rooms, two kitchens, and a four-car garage.
The dining room gives an uninterrupted view of the whole first floor. Jinkee considers this house a temporary residence, while the children are still studying. And even if she and Manny can afford to live abroad, and have considered this possibility, they plan to settle eventually in their General Santos City home when Pacman decides to hang up his boxing gloves.
Manny hardly stays in this house on weekdays, since he's enrolled as a business-administration freshman at the Notre Dame College in General Santos City. Instead, he comes home to Laguna on weekends, and if schedules permit, he sends for Jinkee and the kids to visit him.
The orderly living room reflects the tidiness of the entire house. Jinkee says she likes a clean house: "Minsan sa bahay, pag hindi ko gusto 'yong linis ng mga ano, nagwawalis ako. Basta ako, naglilinis ako. Yon kasi ang nakasanayan ko paglaki ko. Alam ko lahat ng gawaing-bahay."
This traditional wooden dining table is just the right size for the couple and their three growing kids. Displayed on the ledge just below the window on the left (not in photo) is the World Federation of Young Entrepreneurs trophy that Manny received as one of the most outstanding men of 2004.
This contemporary-style kitchen is clearly unused, but it is still equipped with a refrigerator, a microwave oven, and a five-burner stove with a convection oven.
Although it looks spic and span, this other kitchen, in the traditional section of the first floor, is where actual cooking is done. But there is still a "dirty kitchen" near this one, where most of the cooking really happens. A male cook handles the kitchen duties in the household.
The beautiful stencil work of birds on the den's walls is part of the original design of this unit. The stencil work in pastel colors (which depicts trees on other walls, not in photos) runs through all the common areas of the house, giving a twist to the traditional look of this section of the house.
This staircase, adorned with circular mirrors, leads to the bedrooms of Princess and her brother Michael. Though the living-room wall has been knocked down to combine the two units, the layout of the second floor of the duplex prevents a similar removal of walls. Manny and Jinkee decided to leave the upper level as is.
Mary Divine Grace (Inset)—or Princess, as her family calls her—loves to have her picture taken. During the YES! photo shoot, after every pose for the camera, she made a game of running to the photographer to look at her picture.
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ss's whimsical bedroom is definitely fit for a young royal. It comes complete with her own television set, CD player, and stuffed toys that are bigger than she is.
Middle child Michael Stephen (inset) got that name because Manny and Jinkee saw it in the rolling credits of a Hollywood film. "Hindi ko na matandaan kung ano 'yong movie," says Jinkee. "Basta nagandahan kami pareho sa pangalan."
Michael's bedroom reveals his obvious love for comic-book characters and computer games. He has a collection of various action figures, including Batman, Superman, The Thing, and the complete Fantastic 4. He also has two portable gaming consoles, a Play Station Portable (PSP), and a Gameboy Advance.
Jimwel (inset) is actually Emmanuel Jr. He and his brother Michael have a tight daily schedule. After school, they are tutored and taught to do their homework before they can go out and have fun. It looks like the discipline that Manny shows when in rigorous training is the same discipline that he wants to see in his children.
Like the other kids, Jimwel's room is also equipped with his own television set. He also has his own collection of action figures and video games. But when Manny is away on training, Jimwel stays with his mom in the master's bedroom, across the hall from his room.
During the YES! photo shoot, Manny was in Los Angeles, U.S.A., training for his match with Juan Manuel Marquez. Jinkee was left to take care of their three kids (left to right) Michael, 6 (now 7); Princess, 1 (now 2); and Jimwell, 7 (now 8). To tend to the children's individual needs, the couple hired a nanny for each. There are also two bodyguards for the kids.
