Web page Turner is understood for her no-nonsense strategy on HGTV’s “Repair My Flip,” and whereas there is no query that her skilled experience has lots to do with that, she additionally developed that sense of powerful love because of a few of the storms she’s needed to climate in her life. Between loss, dangerous breakups, and the challenges of single motherhood, she’s been via lots over time. 

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We’ll begin along with her father’s passing. Many years earlier than changing into an HGTV star, Web page was already rubbing shoulders with some very well-known individuals, due to her extremely sought-after optician mother and father, who made glasses for Sammy Davis Jr. and Dionne Warwick, amongst others. Sadly, her dad Eugene Turner died of liver sickness when she was simply 8 years previous. Due to how high-profile he was, members of the press arrived on the funeral, and in a 2019 Instagram submit, Web page shared the image that had been taken of her en path to it. “The #paparazzi needed to get a pic of me crying on my mother’s lap within the limo,” she shared within the caption, together with an image of the newspaper clipping in her submit. 

Through the years, Web page has spoken lots about shedding her dad at such a younger age. In a single Father’s Day submit on Instagram, she gushed, “There’s one thing sooooo particular to have the ability to say that ‘I am a daddy’s lady … ‘ Though I used to be 8 the final time he might maintain me, he set the usual & I nonetheless keep in mind.” In one other, she shared that even with him gone bodily, she by no means doubted his continued presence in her life. “I can really feel him throughout me and I do know that a lot of my energy comes from him,” she wrote. Speak about an exquisite legacy to depart behind. 

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Given simply how shut Web page Turner was along with her personal dad, it is fairly devastating figuring out her daughters do not have the identical dynamic with their very own father. Actually, Web page appeared to reference that in considered one of her Instagram Father’s Day posts, which she summed up with some critical powerful love. After her word about loving having the ability to discuss with herself as a daddy’s lady, she continued, “In case your daughter cannot say that about you, you dropped the ball. Decide it up & make it proper … Each daughter deserves to be a daddy’s lady.” 

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Although Web page did not particularly point out her daughter’s father in that individual submit, she has spoken about his whole lack of presence of their youngsters’s lives on multiple event. In a 2019 Instagram video about discovering the braveness to do something she set her thoughts to, she mentioned the worry she had as a younger single mother, together with the conclusion she’d have to determine a approach ahead with out baby help. In a 2023 interview with Yahoo! Life, she reiterated that, telling the outlet, “[I] by no means received a dime in baby help.” She additionally added an excellent sadder element. “I do not even know the place that man is, to let you know the reality,” she stated. 

After all, it does bear mentioning that even with out her daughter’s father within the image, she did have her village. Along with her mother Patricia Turner shifting in along with her and her daughters, she instructed Yahoo! she additionally had quite a lot of nice buddies who confirmed up for her and the youngsters. “It was actually like all arms on deck with my youngsters. I used to be so blessed, even in my low instances,” she stated. 

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Even along with her village stepping in the place they might, Web page Turner was nonetheless a single mother to 3 youngsters, and she or he instructed Yahoo! Life that as a result of she was outnumbered, she was typically very strict. “I felt like I needed to be a soldier as a result of there have been three of them and I needed to guarantee that they knew who’s boss. And quantity two, simply to maintain every part in line,” she defined. Web page added, “I used to be a helicopter mother and I used to be tremendous controlling.” With that in thoughts, she stated there have been instances she wished she might have a do-over. “Wanting again, I’d be a unique mother,” she mused. 

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It bears mentioning that even along with her outrageous baby help state of affairs and no co-parent, Web page made it work, and she or he and her daughters appear to be exceptionally shut as we speak. She’s additionally gushed over how proud she is of all of their accomplishments, writing in a single Instagram submit, “Chain-breakers. Religion-makers. They’re positively doubletakers, with their wonderful, good selves, lol (pats myself on again).”

One other side of motherhood Web page is happy with, wanting again? The truth that her eldest baby was simply two years older than her twins meant she needed to get resourceful — and that, she did. “Three homecomings, three driver’s licenses, three proms, three birthday events on the identical time, it was loopy. However , I am a giant believer in imaginative and prescient and written plans. And something we needed, I by no means stated, ‘We will not have it. We will not afford it.’ I simply stated we might must construction, plan and work for it,” she recounted to Yahoo!. Youngsters apart, there was one other profit in that: Web page put her newfound skill to adapt to work in her profession. 

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It is well-known that Web page Turner and DeRon Jenkins have been as soon as a pair — and despite the fact that a ton of HGTV reveals are faux, their on-screen chemistry definitely would not recommend the breakup was a painful one. Positive sufficient, although, each of them have spoken in regards to the aftermath of their relationship being powerful. 

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Talking to Us Weekly in 2018, Web page defined that despite the fact that her and Jenkins’ relationship hadn’t ended after a large struggle, that they had wanted to heal from every part. “We wanted a break for a few years. Then we have been like, ‘All proper — we good,'” Web page instructed the outlet. It was a sentiment she and Jenkins shared with Folks in 2019, too. In that interview, they hinted on the cut up being lots tougher for each of them than they’d beforehand let on, with Web page referring to it as “the traumatic breakup.” Nevertheless, afterward within the interview, she did share that it being traumatizing could have been par for the course. “Are there ever actually any good breakups?” she mused. Truthful sufficient!

Trauma apart, it is secure to say the exes managed to maneuver previous it. A part of that, Jenkins instructed Us Weekly, got here all the way down to the truth that along with nonetheless being buddies, they knew they’d proceed working properly collectively, even post-breakup. “We really feel like we each are on the prime of our craft. We work properly collectively so far as trusting. I do know what she’s gonna do, she is aware of what I am gonna do. Our expectations of one another are very real looking. We make it work,” he defined. Actually, we like to see it — and though we rely the traumatic side as a “unhappy” element, it is fairly clear every part labored out for the very best.

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DeRon Jenkins is not the one ex Web page Turner has remained buddies with over time. Quite the opposite, in 2023, she shared that she’d stayed shut along with her past love as properly. Heartbreakingly, although, Jakim Stewart handed away because of most cancers. 

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Web page took to Instagram to share a candy video montage of images and movies of her and Stewart over time to commemorate her pal’s tragic passing. “I’ll always remember your giggle & your smile and the way first loves grew to become perpetually buddies (even via the instances I needed to pull as much as Westchester Excessive in my uniform in a fury),” she wrote within the caption. Web page additionally shared that that they had stayed shut sufficient for annual birthday cellphone calls and included a screenshot of the final name they’d shared, which passed off only a week previous to his demise. “I’ll always remember our most stunning dialog final week, that was additionally our final. The laughs, the tears, so many recollections visited in simply 39 minutes,” Web page wrote. 

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Web page ended her tribute by sending heartfelt condolences to Stewart’s household. “Prayers & love in your stunning sons, mommy, sister, the little homie Jamal and your wonderful spouse, Tia. They’ll at all times be in my ideas & prayers,” she stated. 

Sadly, most cancers additionally affected one other necessary individual in Web page Turner’s life. As she shared in an emotional Instagram submit in Could 2021, her mother Patricia Turner — whom she commonly refers to on Instagram as “Nana Pat” — was identified with breast most cancers. She made the announcement whereas asking her followers and followers to hope for her mother’s well being. “Please pray for Nana Pat as she faces her full therapeutic from a mastectomy, chemo and a VICTORIOUS breast most cancers defeat,” she requested within the caption. 

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Fortunately, the HGTV star shared a really glad replace on Instagram a number of months later. “All of us prayed for my mama and therapeutic from breast most cancers simply a few months in the past (thanks all!) and it’s with overwhelming gratefulness and pleasure to you all in your prayers and to my nice God that Nana Pat is … CANCER FREE!!!!!” she wrote. 

A day after that submit, Web page returned with one other, thanking everybody for his or her type phrases and giving her mother main props for uplifting her to maintain pushing via all of the challenges she confronted in life. “She taught me to by no means surrender and struggle via and struggle on, come what could. To take deep breaths and belief the method, regardless of when the method is kicking your a$$,” she wrote. There is no query that Web page has adopted in her mother’s footsteps, and one thing tells us that even along with her personal strictness as a mother, her daughters possible will, as properly. Web page could have confronted a ton of disappointment in her life, however via all of it, she’s additionally been surrounded by an abundance of affection, and that definitely comes throughout to her followers, whether or not they’re watching her on HGTV or just scrolling via her Instagram. 

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