Naya Rivera has completely remade herself… into Jennifer Lopez. The first glimpse of this transformation came at the People’s Choice Awards earlier this month, when many of us could swear that we were looking at photos of Jennifer Lopez – go here to see. Naya has lost weight (from her face, especially), but I strongly suspect there is something surgical going on here too. CB and I were trying to figure it out (CB made the side-by-side at the bottom of the post): there’s definitely a nose job, and probably something done to her chin. I suspect an eye-lift too. She definitely Bristol Palin’d herself (or as CB said: “That’s some Kardashian-level plastic surgery.”)
Anyway, Naya covers the new issue of Cosmopolitan Latina. The cover image is J.Lo-tastic but the interior images aren’t so plastic-y. You can read her interview here and here are some highlights:
On indulging her domestic side:
“Latinas are really great nurturers who are great to our men; we love hard and we love to cook. The other morning I woke up and was like, ‘I need china – this table needs to be set all the time!’ Focusing on those things is where I’m at right now.”On her fiancée, rapper Sean Michael Anderson, aka “Big Sean:”
“I think he’s going to be an amazing husband, and he’ll make a great father someday. He’s so kind to people, but he also wears the pants in our relationship, which I love. We Latinas are very independent and strong, so it’s even sweeter that I’ve found somebody who can let me out of that role for a minute.”On getting ahead as a teenager when her family fell on tough times:
“I was very resourceful when it came to getting a job. I was the ultimate liar on a resume. At the tender age of 19, I said I had a bachelor’s degree; they never checked! Even when I didn’t have much, I always acted as if I had everything I wanted. Latin women are go-getters by nature. We have a certain charm and finesse that gets us what we want.”On understanding Spanish better than she speaks it:
“It sucks because I have no one to [speak Spanish] to, but it’s something I need to learn when I have kids. They need to be fluent.”
I took Spanish classes for years and I’m better at listening to Spanish (and understanding only part of it) than I am speaking it. As for all of the generalizations about Latinas… I understand the desire to embrace her heritage and talk it up, especially to a Latina-specific publication and a primarily Latina audience, but some of the generalizations come across as eye-rolly and simplistic. Here’s the question: if a non-Latina person was making those kinds of generalizations about Latinas, would you be cool with it?
Photos courtesy of WENN and Marc Baptiste/Cosmo Latina.
