NIKOLAS AND EMILY
TYLER | NATALIA

Up Close and Personal - Home Sweet Home
ABC Soaps In Depth
February 17, 2004

This time a year ago Natalia Livingston (Emily) wasn't wearing expensive designer clothes on the job; rather, her "wardrobe" consisted of a fluorescent orange apron.

"I was working at Home Depot on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, selling appliances and working in the garden department," the actress reveals with a laugh. "I know more about plumbing, hardware and soil then you would ever want to know. I could pretty much build a house, I think."

Livingston's home growing up was a small town in Georgia, where miraculously, language barriers weren't a problem. "My mom is from Guadalajra, so I grew up speaking Spanish to her. But my dad doesn't speak any Spanish to this day, which is very interesting."

Livingston's fondest memories were visiting her mom's parents in Mexico every summer. "It was so much fun for me because it was a completely different world. We would have parties with pinata's and tons of people would be dancing." Sure, but did they know how to install a sprinkler system?