Eva’s Familia Shows No Love?
During her promotional trip in Mexico, Eva Longoria admitted that she was treated as the ugly duckling in her familia. Although the actress is known for playing the very sexy Gabrielle Solis on the television drama, Desperate Housewives, she never felt pretty as a little girl.
She stated,
“En mi casa me dicen la ‘prieta fea’. Mi familia dice eso. Yo creía que era fea cuando crecía porque mis hermanas eran rubias y de ojo azul; yo era la única morena. Entonces yo crecí como la ‘prieta fea’, nunca me sentí sexy o bonita.”
“In my house I am called ‘the ugly dark one.’ My family says that. I thought I was ugly growing up because my sisters had blond hair and blue eyes; I was the only dark skinned one. So I grew up being ‘the ugly dark one,’ and I never felt sexy or pretty.”
Racial ideologies form part of la cultura, but should ‘prieta fea’ be considered a term of endearment or a racist form of speech?
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I don’t think that is cool. It obviously affected the way she looked at herself. Her self-esteem too. I hope that she has embraced her color skin and can love herself for who she is.
Ha!! The prieta fea made it into show biz, I wonder what they call her now? Prieta Linda que nos da dinero? Hilarious!!
It’s a racist form of speech. I have never heard “Prieta dea” reserved as a term of endearment. Negrita, yes and only by loved ones.
Honestly, you hear stuff like that all the time. Even mi negra is used as a term of endearment, but now…imagine if we took all of those statements and considered them racist? You honestly think her family meant it in a racist way? I doubt it.
morena or negrita..negra..are considered terms of enderment……prieta fea……is really terrible even more so coming from your family
and STACY…in latin culture there is lots of racium you know the lighter you are the better the darker…skined is ay la probecita( poor thing)
She is probably saying that for attention I’m sure even if the fam called her that it was a term of endearment and only because of her eyes and hair not a slam against her skin which is barely tan anyway.
I am not sure why her family called her that? Prieta is suppose to make a darker skinned girl feel bad… but, I actually don’t feel bad when they call me that or negrita or negra The fea part was pretty harsh, but I doubt it was in a nasty way.
It is well known in the Cultura Latino that if you’re born blond with blue eyes you are “beautiful” or considered a golden egg by most of your family and I think it’s harsh because those stereotypes come from self-hate and racism. Damn the Spanish for making us loathe our dark and lovely characteristics.
That is racist because it is coming from blond hair blue eyed family members. I went to school with a Mexican girl that would get hit by her grandma b/c her skin was darker than the rest of the family. They were embarrased by her b/c she was the only part of the family that showed they were really Mexican and not white.
I think this is a hard one. I mean it was coming from her family. So, maybe it was out of carino and she just took it the wrong way. Regardless, I don’t think it is nice to say those kinds of things, but I have heard so much worse.
i get the other side of it . i have light skin and i hate the juera shit i get. even from my own family. it goes both ways..
It’s a shame that they said to her. They may have been joking or teasing her, but there were some hidden truth in this statement. It’s a shame that racism exists. Especially within one’s own culture. Caucasians have definitely damaged other cultures by ingraining self-hatred and by not allowing people to find beauty within their own ethnicity or themselves just to perpetuate their dominate race.
@ Jessica
I totally agree with your statement, sadly but true in Latin American society that type of crap is big. Dark hair is also bad. I think if it was really that horrible to be prieta tanning salons would go outta business. I think I got my best features from my native blood. So, I love being the Prieta!
Rayray I totally agree with your statement. That’s ashame that her family called her that. A child should be loved regardless. Forget about color.
Am i the only one who found what she offensive and stupid? So basically shes saying people who have dark hair and tan skin are ugly. So shes insulting 99.9% of Latin Americans, Mediterranean women and Indian women as well. Maybe not understanding her but thats what i felt when i first read it. And by the way both her sister are brunettes.
prieta fea is not a term of endearment.. my family used the term all the time on my sister and i considered it a shameful phrase. It gave her such a inferiority complex. Just like when they would criticize anyone with curly hair or wavy hair they would call it “pelo malo” …bad hair. racism and prejudice is alive and well in the spanish culture.
But now look who has all of the money! Parents should not do that to their children. I am dark also and I am the baby of 7 (we are Cuban and Half Black). All of my sisters came out with nice curly hair are so light that they have to tan. I came out with a beautiful brown color but my hair is a little more coarse. I was never made to feel bad because of this and I am glad. I think every aspect of our culture is beautiful. I actually think that brown is a little better than having blonde hair.
@ Pagi!
& I totally agree with you. I am also la prieta but nobody in my family ever called me fea. However, I grew up in the barrio con munchos Latinos and they’re the ones I learned from. One Mexican boy I liked told me I would never have a chance because I wasn’t white. He said you know white woman take care of themselves and Latina’s just get fat and let themselves go when they get older. I was stunned. It seemed most of the hispanic boys in school preferred the white girls to us.
So I dated los negros & my parents didn’t care, all I knew was they were actually happy to be with me.
I am now a model I grew to be 5′10 and look fierce. I can’t wait for a class reunion, lol.
@ Jessica
Sadly but true most Latin Men also grow up with the idea that if they bring a light-skinned girl home they will have better babies and its like they gained a trophy wife, no matter how plain she might be, at least she’s white. You always see people coo the white babies, while dark babies are a curse. Yeah, the negros appreciate the darkeness, so you usually end up dating them. I grew up with a complex myself cause I was a darker than other girls therefore I was less. I hated Barbies cause they didnt look like me. Now, I am not ashamed and I love it.
I wonder how her sisters feel about Eva telling the world her sisters are racist bitches.I don’t understand how calling someone “the ugly dark one” is a term of endearment.
Eva is a BEAUTIFUL woman. F??#!! her family.
I think it depends on the way it was said, kids can be harsh without realizing the damage they impose. If she was around nothing but lighter skinned blondes then she may have just felt awkward and out of place. Alot of insecurities from childhood are self inflicted. I’ve never seen these terms as an endearment no matter who says it..its just an excuse to say something rude to someone without feeling bad about it…its inconsiderate period.
I am shock that other cultures face the same problems as blacks. Not all blacks consider themselves proud to be black. I am a black woman that wasn’t as light as my daddy side of the family that raised me. I was called ugly and I hated the way I looked until other people kept telling me why do you think you ugly. I always told people that I was raised in a family that was mixed with cherokee blood long hair and damn near could pass as white. The funny thing about this is my skin complexion is light. When I had kids a white doctor ask me what nationality was my kids. I thought he was stupid because he was looking at me and I am a black woman.LOL