Eva Longoria’s Corpus Christi, Texas roots run deep!

Corpus Christi, Texas is known as a relaxed, beach town near the Gulf of Mexico. Today, the population stands at around 350,000 people, but back in the day, when one of it's most famous residents was growing up, it was a little more than half that size.

Longoria was born and raised in Corpus Christi where she grew up on Dodd Street along with her parents and three older sisters.

The family of six including Eva, her parents Ella and Enrique and her three sisters, Elizabeth “Liza,” Esmerelda and Emily, all lived in a small house surround by fruit trees that little Eva loved to climb. Her parents often sacrificed necessities to afford the extracurriculars their kids wanted to be a part of, “I never knew we were that poor because [we] grew up with a lot of love and my family’s really close,” Eva tells Oprah in a 2006 interview.

She wouldn’t change anything about her childhood though, “I grew up with chickens we had to go get the eggs in the morning, we had to milk the cow for the milk that was going to go in the coffee and on our cereal,” the “Desperate Housewives” star tells TODAY.

Eva used to ride her bike everywhere around the small town, including Windsor Park Elementary. She remembers a time when she was bike riding with her sister on Dodd St. and her sister fell off her bike and broke her arm. Eva knew how hard her parents worked to get these bikes, so she knew she needed to get her sister and the bikes back home.

She would pick up her sister and carry her a few feet, then go back and get the bikes to move them a few feet further.

To this day, she says she still misses the door-to-door community neighborhood feeling, because a neighbor came out of their house insisting to help the young girls and bring them back home, something that wouldn’t necessarily happen in Los Angeles, Eva tells Kerry Washington on her “Street You Grew Up On” YouTube series.

One of Eva’s first jobs was at a Wendy’s in Corpus Christi where she would flip burgers in order to raise money for her quinceanera, “I loved working there,” she tells Rachel Ray.

Once she completed college at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, she entered a talent contest that led her to Los Angeles and shortly after was spotted and signed by an agency, and the rest is history!

Keep on showing off that Corpus Christi pride, Eva!