I remember talking to a very young Jasmine Curtis-Smith, or Jas, outside her big sister Anne Curtis-Smith’s dressing room and asking her if she was going to join showbusiness like her “Ate.”
“I think that day also, we were on the brink of deciding where to go, or what to do,” Jas recalls. “I was in the midst of high school so at that time, talagang saling pusa lang ako sa lahat ng trabaho ni Ate. So every time I heard that question parang, ‘Ano nga bang gagawin ko?’ ‘Will I join, or is it something I see for myself?’ Then, ‘Why not?’ I wanna earn money. And we needed a car for our mom, our car kept breaking down na, and siyempre ’di ka naman puwede mag-rely na puro kay Ate, di ba? Kasi Ate also had to save for herself and think about her own future and her own family kahit pa na sobrang bata paShe was maybe early 20s? I didn’t wanna put all the burden on her, so I thought, ‘Why not do the same as she did: start working and maybe earn some money for myself?’”
