Everyone’s doing a “naked issue” these days. ESPN the Magazine has one. Allure magazine has one. Sports Illustrated does. (Okay, they don’t call it that, but the certainly are not afraid to free the nipple in their “swimsuit” issue.) And so does Women’s Health magazine. Today we will be discussing that last one because, well, it just came out and it also features one ridiculously fit 45-year-old actress named Sofia Vergara.
Of course, Sofia being Sofia she had very little filter and a heavy dose of humor when it came to discussing getting naked and posing for the issue.
“I told [my rep], ‘I’m going to be 45 years old! Stop putting me in naked things! Let me age with dignity!’ People say, ‘Oh, you look like you’re in your twenties.’ Well, it’s not true. Our skin is different.” She tugs at the not-exactly-loose flesh on the back of her tan hand. “I had never thought of the word pore, then I’m like, ‘Sh-t! What do I do with these?'” Still, Sofia couldn’t say no. “Here’s a woman, 45, being able to show her body. It’s not like before, when it was just young girls.”
As for the poses Vergara chose for the shoot, well…
“We were shooting Bent in Rome, and I was eating like I’m on my honeymoon — how can you not eat in Rome? I ate like an animal!” She also wasn’t exercising and then came home with pneumonia two days before the cover shoot. Sick in bed, she looked over photos of potential poses sent by the creative team. “They’re all of tall models holding their boobs with one arm. But I can barely cover my boobs with two arms — I’m a 32-triple-D!” Using both hands, she squeezes her breasts, paying no mind to the women eating scones or the harpist playing nearby. “My boobs are real, and I had a baby. If I grab them, I can’t even cover the nipple!”
And that is why we are such big fans of Sofia Vergara. It also doesn’t hurt that she, much like Fergie, who we saw on Thursday, appears to be aging backwards.
