Eva Mendes opened up about her too-hot-for-TV Calvin Klein ad, and told Vogue what the rest of us already knew: we're a country of uptight prudes.
"I love my country, but I believe that we are too quick to censor nudity," the actress, 34, tells the Spanish edition of Vogue
in its November issue. "We seem okay with violence, but nudity we race
to criticize and censor. I'm not at all ashamed or frightened about
showing my body."
Amen, Eva. But even People can only handle that much, because once that nudity business is out of the way, what could have been a good article about sexiness and censorship turned into yet another mass market article on trying too hard. Apparently, the rest of us should be ashamed or frightened of showing our bodies if we don't look like Mendes.
The
secret to her sexy shape? Simple: Diet and exercise. "I try not to go
crazy, but yes, I pay attention to what I eat," she says. (Since her
stint in rehab earlier this year, Mendes has been outspoken about
taking care of herself.) "I try to stay away from pasta, bread, cakes,
sweets, cookies and ice cream."
If you're not sexy, whatever you do, don't let the real you show; apparently it's "less sexy."
The actress – currently starring in The Women – also touches on a rather less sexy aspect of herself. Asked about her Latin temperament, she says: "I don't usually lose my temper, but if I get angry, it's true – I'm scary. I scare my boyfriend!"
We actually know plenty of men (and women) who would disagree that the "Latin temperament" is "less sexy."
Anyway, here's that commercial again in case you missed it the first few times we posted it:
[People: Eva Mendes Loves Being 'Sexy']
[Scanner: 'People' Loves Putting 'Sexy' in Quotes... As If It's a Dirty Word]
Related:
What Kind Of God In Heaven Lets A Topless Eva Mendes Photoshoot Go This Wrong?
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