Va Va Voom! America Ferrera For W Magazine
Apr 11, 2007 AT 02:00 pm
America Ferrera looks simply amazing on the cover of W magazine's May edition. She opened up about her fake engagement, on not fitting in, and her nervous breakdown.
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ON THE TABLOIDS ANNOUNCING THAT SHE AND BOYFRIEND RYAN PIERS WILLIAMS GOT ENGAGED... "It's totally not true! And his mom called me and my sisters were calling me, and I was like, "Are you kidding? Did you not think I would tell you first?' And then I put out a statement that it wasn't true, and that became a whole news story. So now it's news when something doesn't happen? Like, news flash: California did not get hit by a hurricane today."
ON NOT BEING OFFERED LEADING ACTING ROLES DESPITE HER RECENT SUCCESSES... "When it comes to envisioning an actor in a role that they haven't seen them in, people in this business can be a little uncreative. No one is willing to take a gamble... It's been more about developing my own material, finding roles that I would like to play and figuring out a way to get those things made."
ON TRYING TO ENJOY THE MOMENT... "The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more... I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way."
ON HAVING "A MINI NERVOUS BREAKDOWN' AFTER HER FIRST SHOW BIZ EXPERIENCE ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIE GOTTA KICK IT UP... "I just felt really empty. I had achieved my dream, and it wasn't totally fulfilling. I still had school problems, and I still had boy problems. My life was still my life. I guess I had been waiting to be turned into a swan."
ON BEING HONDURAN AND GROWING UP IN A CAUCASION NEIGHBORHOOD... "As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him too. One day he said to me, "I like your best friend more because she's paler and she has freckles.' And it was right then that I began to feel like, Oh wow, I'm different."
ON NOT FITTING IN WITH THE LATINO COMMUNITY... "I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl."
America Ferrera looks simply amazing on the cover of W magazine's May edition. She opened up about her fake engagement, on not fitting in, and her nervous breakdown.
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ON THE TABLOIDS ANNOUNCING THAT SHE AND BOYFRIEND RYAN PIERS WILLIAMS GOT ENGAGED... "It's totally not true! And his mom called me and my sisters were calling me, and I was like, "Are you kidding? Did you not think I would tell you first?' And then I put out a statement that it wasn't true, and that became a whole news story. So now it's news when something doesn't happen? Like, news flash: California did not get hit by a hurricane today."
ON NOT BEING OFFERED LEADING ACTING ROLES DESPITE HER RECENT SUCCESSES... "When it comes to envisioning an actor in a role that they haven't seen them in, people in this business can be a little uncreative. No one is willing to take a gamble... It's been more about developing my own material, finding roles that I would like to play and figuring out a way to get those things made."
ON TRYING TO ENJOY THE MOMENT... "The hardest part of this year has been learning to enjoy it. It's almost like a full-time job reminding myself to live in the moment and not look for more, more, more... I see now that people who make movies, this world of creative geniuses that I grew up idolizing, are just normal people who wanted to do something and made it happen. Everything that's happened to me in the last year has only made me feel more like a normal person, more human, but in the most beautiful way."
ON HAVING "A MINI NERVOUS BREAKDOWN' AFTER HER FIRST SHOW BIZ EXPERIENCE ON THE DISNEY CHANNEL MOVIE GOTTA KICK IT UP... "I just felt really empty. I had achieved my dream, and it wasn't totally fulfilling. I still had school problems, and I still had boy problems. My life was still my life. I guess I had been waiting to be turned into a swan."
ON BEING HONDURAN AND GROWING UP IN A CAUCASION NEIGHBORHOOD... "As early as second grade I remember feeling really different and isolated. I had the hugest crush on a boy, and my best friend had a crush on him too. One day he said to me, "I like your best friend more because she's paler and she has freckles.' And it was right then that I began to feel like, Oh wow, I'm different."
ON NOT FITTING IN WITH THE LATINO COMMUNITY... "I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl."
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SELL OUT B*TCH.
No matter how much PhotoShop can do you will ALWAYS BE UGLY!
THUS UGLY BETTY
i ABSOLUTLY love her!!!! clearly, i think she is selling out a little by loosing weight but good for her...shes not your typical beauty and look at how successful she is!
She looks scary in that picture
I love America! She takes risks. She is a beauty on the inside and she is growing up in a media stick figure world. Good for you America! You have a big heart and I admire you for making it against the odds.
xoxoxo
She looks Gorge in that pic
funny for I jewish guy to say that
they are not white anyway
that guy was being racist and he doesnt even know his own background
love this glamorous cover shot of America.
She looks really beautiful on this cover.
she looks great!
Anyone else think that she looks a little like Selma Blair in this picture?
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