Jaime's Home Round

For many of us, home is a sanctuary to eat, chill and sleep. But for ex-beauty queen Jaime Teo, home is also her gym, art room, music studio, and food experiment lab where she bakes up a storm. She tells Estelle Low how she spends most of her waking hours in her 1,100 sq ft apartment, doing productive things that are, quite frankly, out of this world.

- Estelle Low

Jaime just turned 42 in April, but you would never guess it from her taut, glowing skin. And from the way she jumps and planks and twists in the slew of workout videos she’s put up on her Instagram page (@jmeteo). If you haven’t seen her account before, log on now for some serious fitspiration.

Warning: It’s gonna be addictive. You won’t just see her burning a year’s worth of calories, but also her pretty bakes, awe-inspiring paintings, and envy-inducing music making that involves playing the piano and guitar, as well as singing.

If all these sound like superhuman achievements, it’s because they are. Many of us plan fancy bucket lists, only to chuck them because “there’s no time” or “it’s too hard”. In Jaime’s world, nothing is too time-consuming, or too hot to handle, as we find out during this shoot and interview – done at her house, no less, because that's where all the magic happens for this self-declared homebody.

First, special mention needs to be made to Jaime’s hosting skills. Not the event hosting that she does as a Fly Entertainment artiste, but actually hosting us, kaypoh media (who have nothing much in common with her except for our love for fitness and good food), in the immaculate, Pinterest-worthy three-bedroom apartment she's been living in since mid-2018.

During the nine hours we were there on day one, she pulled out all the stops to make sure everyone was at ease – making coff ee and hardboiled eggs, off ering drinks throughout, demonstrating her favourite Les Mills Sh’bam dance routines, letting us move furniture freely for the shoot, serenading us with her guitar, doing a spontaneous show-and-tell of her latest paintings… it was almost like catching up with a long-lost friend, or that celebrity neighbour we wish we had.