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Glamour Asks America Ferrera What It's Like To Be Fat
How in the world is America Ferrera making it in Hollywood despite not being white or thin? That is the question Glamour seeks to answer in their latest issue. Sure they call her a bombshell and praise her for being the actress women love, but they also photoshopped the fat out from under her arms, gave her a hip and breast reduction and tanned that hide. As witnessed by the comparison at right to a recent file photo snapped in August. (Click to enlarge.) So we decided to translate some of the more interesting parts of the interview to reveal what’s really being said. Join us while we read between Glamour’s lines:
GLAMOUR: So 11 Emmy nominations for Ugly Betty, two new films in the works. You’re huge!
[Translation: How can you be successful? You’re huge!]
AMERICA FERRERA: What’s crazy is that when opportunities to work come along, they are countered by just as many opportunities to piss it all away. Thank God I’m too busy to say yes.
[Translation: Thank God I’m too Latin to pull a Lindsay Lohan.]
AF: If this is my chance, I’d hate to look back and say I sacrificed it for partying.
[Translation: Unlike Dina Lohan, my mamá would kick my ass.]
GLAMOUR: Have you ever felt limited by your status as a Latina?
[Translation: Have you ever felt you should be cleaning someone’s house?]
AF: …[W]hen I came around with Real Women Have Curves…[w]e screened the film all over the world—in Jewish communities, black communities, Greek communities, German communities— and people across the board said, “That’s my family.”
[Translation: Fat people rule the world.]
GLAMOUR: So do you think Hollywood is moving away from the tall, skinny blond as the actress ideal?
[Translation: Should we be frightened?]
AF: At the end of the day, studios are learning there is a market out there that doesn’t necessarily want to go with predictable choices.
[Translation: No.]
GLAMOUR: Do you still pinch pennies out of habit?
[Translation: Are you the first in your family not to live on welfare?]
AF: My first big, extravagant purchase was a convertible BMW […] but a month after I bought it I was biting my nails, waiting for my tax refund to arrive. Eventually I thought, What’s the point? I just need something to get me from A to B. So I traded in my BMW for a Toyota. But I’ll spend any amount of money on tickets to a show I want to see. This weekend I’m going to New York City with my boyfriend to see Patti LuPone in Gypsy, my favorite musical ever!
[Translation: Like many Latina women, I’m uncomfortable with treating myself. On a side note, my boyfriend could be gay.]
GLAMOUR: How do you feel about being the newest spokeswoman for curvy figures in Hollywood?
[Translation: How do you feel about being fat?]
AF: I’m a size 6 or 8, which is totally normal.
[Translation: Bitch, get some perspective.]
GLAMOUR: Did you ever go through a Betty-like awkward stage?
[Translation: You grew up wearing a serape, right?]
AF: I never wore braces, but I did wear retainers.
[Translation: No more than any other White girl.]
AF: But the most awkward stage I went through has to be my freshman year of college: I had really frizzy hair [and] that extra freshman 15
[Translation: And I went to college, Esa.]
GLAMOUR:Do you have any leftover body insecurities?
[Translation: You’re not thinking of STAYING this size, are you?]
AF: Totally. I never liked my legs and I can’t remember the last time I wore a bathing suit in public.
[Translation: Another year of this success and I’ll make Nicole Richie look like Carnie Wilson.]
Surprise! She’s a bombshell (and you can be one too) [Glamour]
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- Editor
Cindy Casares
- Associate Editor
Alex Alvarez
- Contributing Editor
Gabriel Caro
- Editor at Large
Daniel Mauser
Apparently, Glamour wants women with a disproportionate head-to-body ratio and oompa-loompa skin.
America looks gorgeous as she is. Size six or eight is below the U.S. average of fourteen.
I hope she doesn’t sell out like so many others. Arriba las curvas!!
Posted by M. Gonzalez | September 04, 2007
Real women do have curves, and indeed America is that …
Posted by Jose | September 04, 2007
Yes, the PhotoShopped pic looks awful, and the real pic looks great. However, she was NOT always a size 6-8, most certainly not in her debut, “Real Women Have Curves”. Before becoming really popular/successful, the girl did lose weight. It’s disingenuous to act as if she isn’t playing the game. She’s not starving herself, but she did whittle down the hips, et al.
Posted by Get Real | September 04, 2007
What?!!!?
she’s what the new fat is? a size six or eight?!
Thats disturbing that some one below U.S. average is still considered the curvy or fat chick….wouldn’t that be considered normal?!
Just a few years ago it was Camryn Manheim representing fat chicks.
Posted by 9595 | September 04, 2007
Ummm, the girl is something like 5’2” - size 6 or 8 gives her a LOT of room.
Regardless. She is a an absolutely radiant example of incredibly authentic, sexy beauty - she’s always been genuine, and amazingly lowkey in the face of the offensive incredulity of the ‘mainstream’ press and hollywood machine. Maria Menounos’ appalling reception at the emmys pretty much sums up the sad truth…
I laughed out loud, to keep from crying, at the above translation - keep it up!
Posted by sfikus | September 04, 2007
That’s a real shame that even though Glamour is supposedly upholding her “true” and “real” beauty, they still Photoshop the heck out of her. That neck belongs on a giraffe, her hips are gone, her arms are scrawny, and her waist looks like a size 2.
This is why I don’t read magazines like Glamour. All those magazines do is make you feel like crap about yourself. All while trying to tell you how to satisfy your man in bed. Pathetic.
Posted by Mrs. Z | September 05, 2007
Insecurity makes people do very, very silly things.
Which is why I’m glad that I’m in an industry where women are worshipped for their beauty and confidence, and not how thin they are… Otherwise, I’d probably be a nervous wreck for being a size 14, rather than having my own fans worship the ground I walk on.
Personal disclaimer: If you click the link and you aren’t kinky, you’re probably not going to like what you see! laughs
Posted by Goddess Thain | September 05, 2007
She is fat, end of story. Fat is not attractive. Fat is the worst health problem facing the US. She is s a tub of guts.
Posted by Ben Dover | September 17, 2007
Thanks for the self-promotion, Goddess Thain!
Posted by Emily | September 25, 2007
Uhm I met her in real life. She is 5’0-5’1 at most. Size 8 is pretty large for her height and she seems larger than her pictures when she is not wearing heels. That being said, the size suits her quite well. She looks adorable! What a boring world we would live in if everyone were a skinny Minnie.
Posted by Shandra | October 14, 2007
whoever wrote this translation is the exact description of being WHITE TRASH!!! Not knowing that there must be differences in this world and that not being average doesn’t make you less, but the opposite, it makes you ORIGINAL. It’s about being jelaous because other people can’t make it to where she’s been just the way she is. And sure do you think they don’t photoshop the pictures of white, skinny models? Obiously they do.
Posted by Becca | October 31, 2007
get yourself a sense of humour becca.
Posted by me | November 30, 2007
hey Marilyn Monroe was a size 14 at her smallest and that was nearly 50 years ago so that would be like a size 22 now and she is the ideal sexy in todays world
Posted by popyseed | December 15, 2007
Actualy ‘poppyseed’ generally speaking, vintage clothing sizes run 4-6 sizes smaller than clothing sizes today. For example, I normally wear a size 4-6 in most everything ( dress, pants, skirts) but if I’m trying on a 50’s dress, I need a size 12.
Posted by :P | January 28, 2008
I’m a 5ft2 female and a size 6/8. I weigh 125lb and have under 25% body fat fat. This is not fat or overweight people, so please stop making out like it is. Perhaps I’m more toned than she is, but at the end of the day she is probably larger framed than me and this size suits her.
Also bear in mind she used to be a size 12 and around 150lb, she has slimmed down and looks fantastic now. Being a shorter female does not mean a size 4 is the max size and anyone that thinks it is, well then they are just plain ignorant or if I’m not being so kind, effing stupid.
Posted by Dee | February 17, 2008