America Ferrera Is Getting Old And So Are You
2 September 2008, 1:10 PM. By Alex Alvarez
America Ferrera celebrated her 24th birthday this year, as did her onscreen alter-ego, Betty (the ugly one). And America admits both are feeling old. Yeah.
God, she’s like the crypt keeper:
“I feel like I’m getting old. In some ways I still feel like I’m 16. I don’t feel mature at all. I guess I’m still waiting for that moment where you realise, ‘OK, so maybe I should stop shopping at Ikea now.’”
Blasphemous hag. But it’s got us thinking: At what age are you actually “old?”
As we, like America, approach our 24th birthday and the impending lonely days filled with brushing cobwebs off our dentures, we’re left wondering when, exactly, it is that people will stop referring to us as “girl” and begin calling us a “woman.” Guys are pretty much guys their entire lives, but when does a girl become a woman? When do, say, retail employees, homeless people and bill collectors start referring to you as “Ma’am” rather than “Miss?”
Also, hi. Ikea is for cheap people of all ages. Let’s not get it twisted, please.
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I dont think I matured till I was 35… I started worrying about retirement, and things like that.
Hell, I didnt develop a work ethic until I was 40.
Yes, I’m a man
Katherine Hepburn in “Summertime” said it best when she said, “In America every woman under 50 is a girl.” Trust me when they start calling you “that woman” you’ll suddenly wonder if you look old.
im 24 as well, and quite often i still feel as cluessless as when i was 15…the only difference is i wake up in the morning and i go to work and fool people into thinking i got my shit straight…
Confession time: I’ve maybe lamented to older people my wasted youth…I’m serious, but I also know I’m baiting the lion, but that’s just the teeny mischievous, antagonistic part of me. I’m 26. Hahahahah….
Anyway, I thought I became a woman once I hit 18 when the 2nd geners burned their bras and such? It certainly wasn’t when I did my confirmation…I wasn’t even allowed to go out with my friends alone after that.
I turned 25 earlier this year. I don’t think I believe in reaching an “old” age. Still, I do have a “get your act together” age but this, I think is about taking full responsibility over your self.
Personally, I have scheduled MY adulthood to begin at 35.
By no means an age I consider old, but definitely an age by which I want to have substantial career highlights behind me and to have traveled far more extensively than I already have.
Traveling has been one of the things that I can’t imagine not having been part of my life and because I have found it to be so eye opening/ transforming, I can’t imagine reaching 35 without having been to at least twice as many places as I have been to.
As for other obvious and not so obvious mile stones…there all up in the in air for me.
My abuelita always used to say that when you stop laughing you begin aging. Which kind of explains what is wrong with Chelsea Handler.
some bitch called me ma’am yesterday and that bitch looked way older than me.. (i’ll be 23 this month)
anyway the day that you feel old is the day you become old.
I’m 28 and the older I get the younger and dumber I realize I am… Maturity doesn’t come with age and I sure as hell am not giving in to old age.