'Grey's Anatomy' star Ellen Pompeo originally 'couldn't afford' the Malibu beach house she bought from a 'Friends' co-creator

• Ellen Pompeo said she "couldn't afford" her Malibu beach home when it originally went on the market.
• She told Architectural Digest she "manifested" owning the house, which she bought in 2013.

"Grey's Anatomy" star Ellen Pompeo recently told Architectural Digest she "manifested" the Malibu beach house she bought from "Friends" cocreator Marta Kauffman about a decade ago.

The modern, midcentury-style house was on the market in the early years of "Grey's Anatomy" and Pompeo, who reportedly has a passion for real estate and home renovation, went to view the home despite her budget.

"I knew I couldn't afford it, but I didn't tell anyone that," she confessed to the publication. But when the house went back on the market in 2013, Pompeo was ready to buy it. "I like to say I manifested this house," she said.

The 3000-square-foot home was built in 1979 by famous architects Conrad Buff and Donald Hensman, according to Pompeo and Architectural Digest.

The actor and Betr Remedies cofounder said in a video tour of the house that when she bought the house, it had to be "completely rebuilt because of the damage that the sea and the salt air does." So, when her construction team took the house down to the studs, "I replaced all the existing walls with glass," she said.

Since concluding her longstanding series regular role on "Grey's Anatomy," Pompeo has entered "a very exciting phase of my life" that includes "a lot of free time" at her Malibu home before she begins filming a new show for Hulu in March 2023.

She collaborated with her longtime friend and celebrity interior designer Martyn Lawrence Bullard to conceptualize the look of the rooms, many of which feature stunning Brazillian book-match marble. Pompeo's kitchen features her favorite use of the natural stone.

"I cook a lot, so I have a lot of rules regarding this kitchen," she said in the video of her house tour. She doesn't like anyone in the kitchen with her while she's cooking because the space is small. So, she put three stools at a counter outside of the kitchen in case one of her children — Stella Luna, 13, Sienna May, 8, and Eli Christopher, 6 — needs to talk to her while she's there. "This is my space," she joked.

When her family is at the beach, Pompeo said she tries to instill in her kids the importance of self-care and an appreciation of nature sans technology.

"One of my biggest struggles as a mother is getting the kids away from the TV and away from the iPads, right?" she said during the house tour. "So, sometimes I just banish them to those chairs and I make them sit there and watch the ocean," she laughed, pointing to three chairs she set up in her backyard, presumably on a private stretch of beach facing the Pacific Ocean.

The kids' bedroom in Pompeo's beach house features bean bags covered in Missoni fabric for a bit of fun, and one of her guest bedrooms features photographs of important moments in Black history.

"Obviously, my children are Black and it's really important for me to have lots of representation in the artwork," said Pompeo, who in 2007 married Chris Ivery, an executive at the sportswear company Sergio Tacchini.

Pompeo admitted that her beach house is usually "not very peaceful" because they have a lot of visitors and blast music, and Ivery bartends in their backyard, making pina coladas.

Watch Pompeo tour her beach home for Architectural Digest below.