More on America Ferrera
February 14th 2007 01:39
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Golden Globe winner America Ferrera is on top of the world with her "Ugly Betty" success, but life wasn't always so pleasant for the 22-year-old actress.
America, who plays Betty Suarez on the hit ABC show, says acting helped her survive a turbulent childhood with her Honduran-born parents.
"I'd spend hours in my room blocking out their screams by acting out plays in my head," said America. "Acting was all I ever wanted to do."
America, who took home a Golden Globe in mid-January for best actress in a comedy, began starring in school plays and community theater productions close to her home in Los Angeles when she was 8.
When her parents divorced, her father returned to Honduras and her mother raised America and her five siblings while working as a Hilton hotel executive.
She continues:
"I'd look in the mirror and cry, thinking I was too fat," she admitted. "But today I feel beautiful and far from the ugly duckling I appear to be on screen."
Well, it looks like "Ugly Betty's" childhood wasn't exactly pretty, either. Sorry, babe...you're rich now so I hope it doesn't matter!
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