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Am I Latin? Am I American? What The Hell Am I? I Love My Culture And I'm Very Proud Of My Culture

The Name America Has Definitely Grown On Me. I Wish There Was A Big Patriotic Story Behind It, But The Truth Is That My Grandfather Was A Librarian Who Knew All Sorts Of Random Facts.

What's So Kind Of Beautiful About The Whole Thing Was That Everything That Made Me Not Right For All Of Those Hundreds Of Commercial Auditions That I Went On And No One Ever Wanted Me For Is What Made Me Perfectly Right For 'real Women Have Curves'.

I Think The Body Image Thing, Everybody Can Identify With That. In Our Culture There's Just So Much Pressure And So Much Attention Placed On The Way We Look. You Just Turn On The Tv Or Flip Open A Magazine And There's People Who Don't Look Like Any Of Us. I Think This Movie Is Like, Finally, A Celebration Of Reality And Of Our Imperfections. We're Not All A Size 2 And We're Not All A Size 0, And You Know What? That's Ok, Because Some Of Us Like To Eat!

To Me, The Tragedy About This Whole Image-obsessed Society Is That Young Girls Get So Caught Up In Just Achieving That They Forget To Realize That They Have So Much More To Offer The World.