Gina Rodriguez: I dont look like a skinny mini and thats OK
Jane the Virgin star Gina Rodriguez’s CW series was just renewed for its third season. This fall she appears in Deepwater Horizon (the trailer just dropped) and will soon work with Ex-Machina director Alex Garland on Annihilation. Gina was recently interviewed by Yahoo Style for their I Yahoo’d Myself series. She kicks off the video by saying, “It was going to be very difficult to fit into what Hollywood’s perception of what an ingénue is or a leading lady because if we want to talk about real life, I slay, okay?” What comes across in the interview is Gina’s zest, her playfulness and her confidence that no matter what Hollywood says, she is exactly how she is supposed to be.
She found fame on CW’s hit show Jane The Virgin just two years ago.
And 31-year-old Gina Rodriguez reflects on her rising stardom in a new interview with Yahoo! Style as well looking gorgeous in an accompanying sultry photoshoot.
Talking to Joe Zee for its I Yahoo’d Myself feature, Gina was asked how she deals with the ever-present showbiz pressure to stay thin.
‘Of course I’ve fallen into the pressure, 100% I’ve fallen into the culture.’ she said.
‘If you look like the swimsuit model then everyone’s gonna want you and the money’s going to flow through and everything’s going to be grand and dandy.
‘That’s bulls**t’ the Chicago-born beauty added.
‘You go to television and film and it does add 10lbs,
I don’t look like a skinny mini and that’s OK too. That is beautiful also’
Gina has long credited her parents for her confidence. She told E! News last year, “I grew up with two amazing people in my life. My parents were so phenomenal when it came to body image and to beauty and being very comfortable in your own skin.” She reinforced this to People, “[My dad] prepared us to be able to look at billboards and magazines and say, ‘This is not the only body type that is beautiful”
You can see the Yahoo Style photoshoot here; it’s gorgeous and was inspired by Gina having co-founded the lingerie line Naja, which employs single mothers from Colombia working from home. Gina still has her I Can and I Will production company and is working on a memoir. When I look at any famous person I wonder if they are somebody I can hold up as a role model for my children. In Gina’s case, the answer is yes.
Photo credit: WENN and Fame/Flynet Photos and Getty Images
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