A Magazine Profile

From YES! Collector’s Item (February 2004)

“Your Ultimate Guide to the StarStruck Kids”

Full name: Jennylyn Mercado, 16

Birthday: May 15, 1987; Taurus

School: Augustinian Abbey School

Motto: What you are is God’s gift to you and what you become is your gift to God

Closest “StarStruck” friend/s: Sheena. Super bait.

Hardships in the “StarStruck” competition that you’ve managed to get over: Give up my studies, kasi puyat lagi.

Most embarrassing “StarStruck” moment: During a pictorial, lumabas ‘yung strap ng bra ko. Shucks!

Why do you want to be a star? To help my family. 

Jennylyn may not have looked overwhelmed when her name was announced as the female ultimate survivor, but that was only because she was too dumbfounded to react.

Asked – a few days later – to choose which part of her life she wanted to relive, she choses February 1, 2004. “It’s the day I won ‘StarStruck,’” Jenny smiles. “I didn’t expect to win, but I did.”

Sunday is her favorite day: “It’s our family day. We all go to church together.”

Now a GMA-7 contract artist, our future diva lists the following as the ideal qualities in a man: sincere, intelligent, loving, sweet, smart, neat, understanding, open-minded.

The guitar-and-drums player includes drawing and writing poems among her many skills.

Trivia Fiesta

-If you want to please Jennylyn, give her lots of candy and bubble gum.

-Mother Theresa is the person Jennylyn admires the most.

-Jennylyn’s sweet scent is courtesy of her D&G and Clinique Happy perfumes.