| The 42-year-old Colombian-American actress. |
1. She worked with a language coach to turn her weakness into a strength. "If I can’t get a job with my accent, this is not a job for me," she says.
2. Criticism doesn't bring her down. She's comfortable being who she is, be it her style of dressing or her character in Modern Family.
3. She's remarkably candid about her voluptuous figure. "My whole life, buying a bra was a nightmare. What I used to do when I moved to LA, I found places like Frederick’s of Hollywood that make bras for [strippers]," she admits.
4. In the mid-'90s, she established Latin World Entertainment (LatinWE) with manager Luis Balaguer to compete with Univision’s hold on talent management. (In other words, Vergara got rich "by exploiting the people who exploited her people".
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