Tatler Singapore

Viva La Familia

Working with your spouse is notoriously tricky. You never know when you’re going to start bickering. Things could boil over in a team meeting or come to a head while you’re doing a magazine interview. Case in point: Federico Folcia and Teo Jia En arguing about snacks in the middle of this Tatler Singapore shoot.

“She’ll feed our kids snacks all day if it were up to her,” says Folcia, 43, an Italian who has been living in Singapore for a decade.“Asians snack a lot!” retorts Teo, 40, a Singaporean and mother to their three children. “He’s not Asian. He doesn’t understand that. I’d ask the girls, ‘You want to get 4Fingers? You want bubble tea?’ Those are the joys in life!” Folcia shoots back: “On top of meals, not in lieu of them! And stop making everything about being Asian, that is just you!”

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