{"id":158104,"date":"2025-03-24T07:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/eva-longoria-was-the-ugly-duckling-in-her-family\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T07:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T07:46:07","slug":"eva-longoria-was-the-ugly-duckling-in-her-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/24\/eva-longoria-was-the-ugly-duckling-in-her-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Longoria was the &#8216;ugly duckling&#8217; in her family"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2025-03-24\" datetime=\"1742802367\" pubdate=\"\">24 March 2025<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/eva-longoria\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,eva-longoria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eva Longoria<\/a> was the &#8220;ugly duckling&#8221; in her family during her younger years.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Eva Longoria has recalled her route to Hollywood<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old actress has revealed that she didn&#8217;t look anything like her sisters as a child and she was never considered to be &#8220;the pretty one&#8221; in her family.<\/p>\n<p>Eva &#8211; who was the youngest of four daughters &#8211; said on &#8216;TODAY&#8217;: &#8220;I was performative in my family because I was the ugly duckling. Documentation is available if you need it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My three sisters look alike. They are all blonde. I knew I wasn\u2019t the pretty one and I was like, \u2018OK, I\u2019m not the pretty one so I\u2019m going to be the funny one. I\u2019m going to be the smart one.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Eva studied kinesiology at a university in Texas, but she eventually found her way to Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe brunette beauty explained: &#8220;I land in Hollywood and I don\u2019t know what happened. I just was like, \u2018I think I\u2019m going to be an actor.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nEva starred on &#8216;The Young and the Restless&#8217;, the daytime soap opera, between 2001 and 2003. But she found international stardom in 2004, when she joined the cast of &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217;, the hit comedy-drama series.<\/p>\n<p>\nEva &#8211; who played the part of Gabrielle Solis on the ABC series &#8211; shared: &#8220;By the time I got &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217;, I remember when it aired, and I was like, \u2018Mom, you gotta watch, it\u2019s called &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217;.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;She watches and she calls me afterwards. She goes, \u2018Honey you were in it a lot.\u2019 I go, \u2018Yeah mom, I\u2019m one of the stars.\u2019 And she goes, \u2018Are you going to be in it next week?\u2019 [I go], \u2018Mom I\u2019m going to be on every week.\u2019 It was a big adjustment for everybody around me, but not me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/eva-longoria-ugly-duckling-family-1415616.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>24 March 2025 Eva Longoria was the &#8220;ugly duckling&#8221; in her family during her younger years. Eva Longoria has recalled her route to Hollywood The 50-year-old actress has revealed that she didn&#8217;t look anything like her sisters as a child and she was never considered to be &#8220;the pretty one&#8221; in her family. 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