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Welcome to Still Ugly! An Ugly Betty rewatch podcast. On today’s episode of Still Ugly, we are diving right into Season One, Episode One: Pilot. Ugly duckling Betty Suarez tries to fit in at Mode Magazine, but her boss, Daniel Meade, makes her life miserable. Despite being humiliated, Betty proves her worth at the magazine […]

Questlove and America Ferrera talk about the relationship between craft and self, delving into the ways that creators draw upon their own personal experiences and backgrounds. They discuss how America draws upon her own life to create fictional characters, as well as how the characters she plays expand her sense of self. The episode also […]

America Ferrera joined Deja Foxx to talk about the stakes of this election and Vice President Harris’ New Way Forward to protect reproductive freedom.

On the evening of February 7 in New York City, the stars gathered on Fifth Avenue for the grand opening of Chanel’s first Watches & Fine Jewelry flagship boutique in the United States. Attending the glamorous event were Michelle Williams, Katie Holmes, Kerry Washington, Elizabeth Olsen, Zazie Beetz, and many more. But one celeb in […]

It didn’t take long for America Ferrera to find the personal connection in the speech she delivers as Gloria in the box-office smash “Barbie.” “I think when we’re not historically meant to be in a room, it’s very difficult to show up in those spaces as your whole self,” she says on Variety’s Awards Circuit […]

America Ferrera is reflecting on how her body has been viewed in Hollywood throughout her career. Speaking with ELLE for their 2023 Women in Hollywood issue, the 39-year-old actress recalled how “ridiculous” it was that a lot of her early roles — like in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants or Ugly Betty — were […]

America Ferrera hasn’t yet come face-to-face with any of the women who have memorized her stirring Barbie speech about the complexity of modern femininity—but she expects that such encounters are coming. “I’ve seen lots of videos online of people learning the monologue and doing the monologue,” Ferrera told Vanity Fair at the Women in Film […]