FEW people would know that fiercely private local actress Jeanette Aw went through a breast cancer scare two years ago - she discovered a lump in her breast, but it turned out to be benign.

Or that the 32-year-old has been playing mother to her three young godchildren for the past six years.

These revelations and more are presented in her debut book, Jeanette Aw: Definitions, available from yesterday at $18.90.

In the book, which includes black-and-white photos and sketches she drew, Aw defines what's important to her in words from A to Z.

But the biggest revelation about The Little Nyonya star lay innocuously on the Acknowledgments page.

In the last line, Aw thanks her parents, her three godchildren Jacob, Jay and Jean, and one "Marcus".

In an interview last Friday, Aw admitted that Marcus is indeed the mysterious Caucasian boyfriend that the local showbiz grapevine has been speculating about.

She had written nothing more about him in the book and had wondered if anyone would pick up on that single one-name mention.

Well, we did. But she wouldn't tell us more about him. Not a word about how they met, how long they've been together or what she loves about him.

She wants to keep it private, she stressed.

So will wedding bells ring soon?

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