Sofia Vergara Tells Health: My Publicist Told Me To Get A Breast Reduction
November 17, 2011 by Hollywoodite
Sofia Vergara covers Health Magazine. It’s a surprisingly-long interview, not the usual single paragraph of fluff. But it’s otherwise pretty standard, since some interviewers don’t know what to ask about aside from Vergara’s chest size and ethnicity.
Well, there’s one particular quote that’s floating around today. Years ago, Vergara was instructed by a former-publicist to have a breast reduction so people would take her seriously (on a semi-related note Vergara recalled, in Self October 2010, she dyed her hair dark to fit the Latina stereotype since she wasn’t getting booked as a blonde: “I’m a natural blonde, but when I started acting, I would go to auditions, and they didn’t know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent… but I had blonde hair. The moment I dyed my hair dark, it was, ‘Oh, she’s the hot Latin girl.’ I loved it.”)
On her former-publicist: “When I moved to America I was more voluptuous and I felt a little different,’ Vergara, 39, tells the new issue of America’s Health magazine. ’And one time years ago, I remember my publicist [at the time] told me: ‘I think you should just reduce your boobs because nobody’s going to take you seriously here.’ My mother almost had a heart attack. She was like: ‘God is going to punish you! You can’t cut your boobs!’”
On being happy with her decision to stay curvy: “I don’t regret not doing it,” the Columbian says, “because now it’s become a big part of Gloria.”
On how her culture influences her body image: “In Latin America we do learn to be more comfortable with our bodies,” the mother-of-one says. “Women are not shy to be in a bathing suit, in a G-string. But I also did a TV commercial for Pepsi when I was 17 on the beach in a bathing suit. And after that, everybody was like: ‘Oh my God, that body.’ And you know, you start to feel a little bit more confident if you have people thinking that you’re so fabulous!”
On not afraid of being stereotyped as a voluptuous Latina: “I don’t mind it,” she says. “I mean it is the reality. I am a Latin woman; I’m voluptuous, I’m loud, I’m exactly what a Latin woman is.”
On keeping young and healthy: “I don’t smoke. I’ve never done drugs,” she says. “I think the most unhealthy thing is that I’m obsessed with dessert. And it’s very hard for me not to eat it at least once a day.”
On not working out as hard as she could: “I hired Gunnar Peterson, which is really fun,” she says of the man who has sculpted the bodies of Jennifer Lopez and Penelope Cruz. “Because I mean, if I go alone, I’ll sabotage myself. I’ll do half of the workout. So I need somebody to force me to do it… Oh, the whole time I cry. I get on the floor. I’m like: ‘I’m gonna throw up, enough!’ I mean he doesn’t care.”
On her opinion of plastic surgery: “I’m not against it at all,” she says. “But I think that you should go into it more thinking that you want to look beautiful than trying to look young.” – via Health Magazine.
IMAGE CREDIT – HEALTH MAGAZINE
