{"id":59496,"date":"2023-12-06T07:01:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T07:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/eva-longoria-relates-to-ugly-duckling-after-growing-up-not-identifying-as-a-beauty\/"},"modified":"2023-12-06T07:01:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T07:01:31","slug":"eva-longoria-relates-to-ugly-duckling-after-growing-up-not-identifying-as-a-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/06\/eva-longoria-relates-to-ugly-duckling-after-growing-up-not-identifying-as-a-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Longoria relates to &#8216;ugly duckling&#8217; after growing up &#8216;not identifying as a beauty&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-12-06\" datetime=\"1701846091\" pubdate=\"\">6 December 2023<\/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> feels like the &#8220;ugly duckling&#8221; because she didn&#8217;t &#8220;identify as a beauty growing up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Eva Longoria feels like the &#8216;ugly duckling&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old actress has admitted she didn&#8217;t mind being cast as Gabrielle Solis in &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217; in a role that focused a lot on her looks, and joked she&#8217;s &#8220;riding that wave to the beach&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Asked where her confidence has come from, she told Entertainment Tonight: &#8220;For me? The ugly duckling.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I did not identify as a beauty growing up and so I don&#8217;t have a very healthy relationship with it because it didn&#8217;t define me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When people are like &#8216;You know you&#8217;re sexy and beautiful and you&#8217;re on this list,&#8217; I&#8217;m like &#8216;bring it yes, yes.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\nEva, who is a spokesperson for L&#8217;Oreal, joked that being recognised for her looks is &#8220;better than the alternative&#8221;, and revealed her family keeps her in check.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: &#8220;&#8221;You know my sisters are still like &#8216;Why are you a spokesperson for L&#8217;Oreal?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s nothing like family to ground you.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\nEva recently noted how it&#8217;s unfortunate that young women often compare themselves to others because of &#8220;unattainable images&#8221; on sites like Instagram and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe told People magazine: &#8220;For me, I was lucky not to grow up in a time of social media. I never had that relationship with beauty that I think a lot of young girls grow up with, especially today, with the pressures of it and comparison and trying to keep up with these oftentimes unattainable images.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nShe has never needed to look up to anyone else as a role model because the women in her life are so inspiring.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe explained: &#8220;I come from a family of independent, strong women. I didn&#8217;t have to look far for those role models.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;My mom raised four girls, one child with special needs, had a full-time job, had dinner on the table every day at six, was at every band practice, cheerleading practice, everything.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;And so for me, it&#8217;s like, &#8216;Wow.&#8217; I always think, &#8216;I&#8217;m not doing enough in my life!'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/eva-longoria-relates-ugly-duckling-after-growing-identifying-beauty-1389525.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>6 December 2023 Eva Longoria feels like the &#8220;ugly duckling&#8221; because she didn&#8217;t &#8220;identify as a beauty growing up&#8221;. Eva Longoria feels like the &#8216;ugly duckling&#8217; The 48-year-old actress has admitted she didn&#8217;t mind being cast as Gabrielle Solis in &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217; in a role that focused a lot on her looks, and joked she&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2041],"class_list":{"0":"post-59496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-eva-longoria"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}