You can't escape Sofia Vergara these days.
She plays the loud Colombian wife with the tight tops and high heels on ABC'stop-rated sitcom "Modern Family."She's in ads for Diet Pepsi and Cover Girl cosmetics. The self-branding Latina, who's been known to split her time between South Florida and Hollywood, even has a clothing line at Kmart.
But is the actress and businesswoman a role model for Hispanic women, or is she helping to perpetuate a stereotype? Feelings are mixed.
Some celebrate her success story: the single mother who worked for years as a model and Spanish-TV host before crossing over in Hollywood.
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"She has always been a Latina icon,'' said Claudia Teran, a former Fort Lauderdale resident who was a community outreach coordinator at Miami Children's Museum. The single mother recently moved to Vergara's hometown of Barranquilla, Colombia. "She is one of the girls you always want to look and be like. She was a single mother, and that is one of the things I admire about her so much."
Others say she conforms to long-held stereotypes about Latinas with her character's loud, thick Spanish accent and revealing clothing. READ MORE
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