However, the reality stars and home renovation experts have frequently showcased that all is not what it seems.
When all I could think to do was lay face down on the floor in surrender."
As a result, the former HGTV star felt she had to apologize to her mother.

“I always wanted to say I was sorry for living in half-ness,” Joanna began.
“And not fully embracing the most beautiful thing about myself, which was you.”
That I felt that guilt and that regret.

Like dang it, that’s my mother, this is her culture."
“I didn’t fully own who I was until that moment,” she admitted.
“And walking in the fullness of that really changed the narrative for me.”
The Magnolia co-founder released her memoir, “The Stories We Tell,” earlier this year.
She also opened up in its pages about fighting hard against who she really was, perToday.