Not only did the actress reveal she had to leave her Atlanta apartment after it caught fire<\/a> this summer, a year after she and husband Bryan Greenberg<\/a> lost the Los Angeles dream home in the January 2025 fires<\/a>, but the couple also lost both their fathers in the same time frame.<\/p>\n “Our fathers passed away this summer, like really close to each other,” she told PEOPLE. “As soon as my father passed away, we buried him, about two weeks later, [my father-in-law passed]. It was quite traumatic.”<\/p>\n The big losses naturally made her re-evaluate, and she’s more clear about the things she wants her twin sons to know about her.<\/p>\n “I [just think about] what can be a teachable moment for me? It’s the regrets that I have of not staying curious,” the actress admitted.<\/p>\n “I’m sad to know that I never knew what my dad dreamed of doing with his life instead of the life that he lived and all the sacrifices that he made. Asking more questions about how things were growing up in Korea during Japanese occupation or during the Korean War. Like, how terrifying that was. Or family obligation and whatnot. These are the kind of conversations that I choose to have with my children now.”<\/p>\n Jamie Chung Chung, who gave the fashion keynote at StyleWeekOC during the Newport Beach Film Festival, has also learned to keep the most important things at the forefront through it all. When it comes to holiday traditions, for example, she’s capitalizing on the most priceless asset in life: quality time.<\/p>\n “I’m realizing what the most important things in our life should be [and it’s about] just spending time and having these memories together. When my dad passed away, and we were going through his house, the only thing that we noticed he had of prized possessions were photographs,” she told PEOPLE.<\/p>\n “And so, we’re making it a real family [affair]. We’ve always made the effort to go to one of the parents’ houses for Thanksgiving so I just made a 24-hour trip to San Francisco just now because I’m guilty of not visiting my mom for Thanksgiving this year since we’re going to be on the East Coast. We’re gonna sit, and go to Chicago and spend time with the extended family, and my mother-in-law, and my sister-in-law. Make a real effort to spend more of these family moments together.”<\/p>\n Jamie Chung and Bryan Greenberg with their twin boys in 2021 The holidays are of course starting with Halloween, for which she said she never needs a last-minute run to Spirit Halloween because her 5-year-olds already had costumes in mind. “My kids already knew what they wanted. So last year, they were Leonardo and Raphael [from the Ninja Turtles] and then this year they’re Donatello and Michelangelo.” Maintaining her motif of keeping it simple (while also coordinating with the boys), Chung will be dressed as a slice of pizza \u2014 a classic costume, but also the Turtles’ favorite food.<\/p>\n The PEOPLE stories you love, with first access and special features reserved for subscribers.<\/p>\n Come Nov. 2, Chung will be starring in the Roku Channel’s <\/a>The Holiday Spark<\/a>. The feel-good Christmas film, costarring The Bachelor’s Joey Graziadei<\/a>, follows “perpetually single firefighter Dean (Graziadei) who enlists children’s book illustrator Laura (Chung) to help plan his firehouse’s most unforgettable holiday party yet. Throughout the planning process, they both begin to question their views on romance and the possibility of love at first spark.”<\/p>\n![\"Jamie](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/f55033784e7e5d2756a8cb999a34cef2.jpg\"\/)
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