America Ferrera Shows Us Her Little BlackBook

America Ferrera, this one actress from some show called “Ugly Betty” and some movie about roamingg pants or somesuch opened up to BlackBook magazine about love and life, revealing some little tidbits about her we never knew before. Like: Did you know she used to want to be Jewish?:

She grew up the youngest of six, in Woodland Hills, a Jewish neighborhood in L.A.’s San Fernando Valley. Being outside the cultural loop became the focus of the young Honduran’s teen angst. “All of the boys I had crushes on were Jewish [Ed. note: We know a certain Editor at Large who is probably smiling right now.], but they weren’t allowed to date non-Jewish girls,” she says. “So, I Googled how to convert to be a Jew… for a minute. I went to 40 or 50 bar and bat mitzvahs. I wanted a bat mitzvah so badly!” Ferrera cracks up at the memory.

Oh, America, you little quirkster! Also, she doesn’t like it when people lie about her or insinuate she likes to eat:

“How sad that someone has to make up shit about my life. I don’t even know how they pull it out of their asses!” she says, pausing for a moment to recall the most outrageous thing she’s read about herself. “That my boyfriend puts ice cream in the fridge to always keep me happy! I was insulted on so many levels! I told my family that I’m not answering the phone anymore. I send out text messages, like ‘Whatever you read on Perez, I’m still not engaged.’” Nevertheless, Ferrera is media-savvy enough to quickly point out: “Perez is actually really nice to me.”

That is actually the exact way our boyfriends keeps us happy. There’s no shame in conflating love with food! Silly America. Also, she steals clothes and book money:

While she makes a great entrance (witness her recent high-voltage appearance on the “Late Show with David Letterman”), knows how to work a gown and is more than happy to receive designer loot—of today’s wardrobe, she notes that she’s probably only paid for her socks—Ferrera says that the shopping bug has not bitten her yet. Blame it on an incident in her college years when she spent all of her money on a dream car, a BMW, and then had to borrow cash from her mom to pay for schoolbooks.

“I was so ashamed. I felt like the biggest asshole,” she says. “I’m really bad about things. If I have something, I worry that I will eventually break it, stain it or ruin it. When I got “Betty,” I traded in the BMW for a Toyota that I never had to worry about.”

That’s exactly why we don’t have a BMW either. We’re just so worried about scratching it. So, what have we learned? America Ferrari likes boys, some of which are Jewish, may or may not like ice cream and doesn’t like driving expensive cars or paying for clothes. Well, that does it! We’re totally convinced to run out and see Sister-Friends of the Marauding Pantaloons or whatever that movie is.

Actually, we found the most fascinating tidbit from this article to be the following:

Ferrera eats carefully, like a princess: the toast is delicately nibbled and the whites of the eggs are eaten in full before the yolks are disposed of, in tiny precision-cut squares.

We totally know people who eat all anally-retentive like that! Mesmerizing, is what that is.

Miss America Ferrera [BlackBook]