With this in mind, here’s a closer look at these little-known facts about Erin Napier.

Her shyness and unique interests resulted in her being excluded and bullied.

“I was the oddball sitting alone.

Erin Napier wearing safety glasses in a still from “Home Town”

Now, she has all the success in the world to show off for it.

Accordingly, the couple started renovating houses after they graduated college and moved to Laurel, Erin’s hometown.

However, they didn’t imagine that their small-town restoration projects wouldland them a show on HGTV.

Erin Napier as a teenager

Turns out, she was actually interested in giving the duo their own show.

“We didn’t think it would be possible,” Erin said toHouse Beautiful.

“Why would it be possible to make a TV show in a town like Laurel, Mississippi?

Ben and Erin Napier as college students

We love it very much, but that doesn’t mean everyone else would.

So we had fun and never had any expectations.”

Fast forward, and their small-town renovation projects have spawned over 7 seasons and several spin-offs.

Erin Napier attending “Build Series” in 2020

“It became two days, then three.”

A second procedure revealed that a perforated appendix was the cause of Erin’s health issues.

“The first time it happened, when I was 19, it just partially ruptured.

Instagram photo of a chilled coke and note left for Erin Napier

Not enough to kill me, just enough to make me sick,” Erin explained.

Her appendix had healed itself, with the scar tissue it formed eventually spreading to her other organs.

“But Joan Didion did too, so I think it’s fine.”

“Every morning, a Coke and a note are waiting.

I don’t deserve you,@scotsman.co.”