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2012 Top 10 Hottest Women Who Came in Our Dreams
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 Sofía Vergara
: Sofía Vergara is at the number tenth spot in Women Fitness list of "
2012 Top 10 hottest women who came in our dreams".
Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara was born July 10, 1972. She is a Colombian
actress, comedian, television hostess, and model.
Vergara had been widely known for co-hosting two television shows for Univisión
in the late 1990s. Her television career opened up for her a window of exposure
to North American audiences prior to her first notable acting job in English,
the 2003 film Chasing Papi. Subsequently, she appeared in films, including two
Tyler Perry films, Meet the Browns and Madea Goes to Jail , receiving an ALMA
Award nomination for the latter. Vergara's success on television has earned her
roles in recent films, The Smurfs , New Year's Eve , Happy Feet Two and The
Three Stooges .
As of 2012, Vergara stars on the ABC series Modern Family as Gloria
Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards,
three Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards for Best
Comedy Actress.
Vergara was born in Barranquilla, Colombia. Her mother, Margarita Vergara Dávila
de Vergara, is a housewife, and her father, Julio Enrique Vergara Robayo,
produced cattle for the meat industry. "Toti" was the nickname given to Vergara
by her five brothers and sisters and many cousins. She grew up in her hometown
of Barranquilla and was raised as a devout Catholic in a well-off family,
attending a private bilingual Spanish/English school, known as Marymount School
Barranquilla.
After a marriage at 18 and divorce two years later, Vergara studied
pre-dentistry at a university in Colombia for three years.Then, many
opportunities arose for her to work in modelling and in show business, and
Vergara decided to pursue them, leaving her undergraduate/pre-dentistry studies
two semesters shy of her undergraduate degree. Soon she decided to move to
Miami, Florida, to take advantage of opportunities and to move away from unrest
in Colombia, her older brother was murdered in 1998 during an attempt to kidnap
him. She brought her son, mother and sister with her. Her cousin and adopted
sister, Sandra, is also a television actress in the United States.
Vergara was discovered by a photographer while walking on a Colombian beach.
Soon she was presented with offers in modeling and television work, and she
considered accepting them despite being raised both conservatively and
religiously. According to an article in the January 2002 issue of Maxim, Vergara
was "apprehensive about doing her first television commercial—until her Catholic
schoolteachers gave her their personal permission to take the assignment.
"Vergara made her first appearance as a performer at the age of seventeen in a
Pepsi commercial that was widely broadcast in Latin America.
At the age of 20, Vergara moved to Bogotá, Colombia, where she worked as a
runway model and on television. From 1995 to 1998, she was co-host with Fernando
Fiore of Fuera de serie ("Out of the Ordinary" or "Over-the-Top"), a travel
series that sent her to exotic places around the world. It was telecast on the
international Univisión Spanish-language television network, and it made her a
star in the Latin American market. It also gave Vergara television exposure in
the United States via the Univisión stations there. She co-hosted the Univisión
show A que no te atreves ("I Dare You"). She appeared as a guest star in the
season-four opening of the HBO series Entourage.
Besides runway and catalog modeling work, Vergara did independent projects. She
was photographed for posters and swimsuit calendars in 1998, 2000, and 2002.
Vergara is 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) tall and has naturally blond hair, although for
movies and television, she is sometimes asked to dye it brown to make her look
more typically Latina. Vergara was under an exclusive television contract with
Univisión for several years, and after it expired she accepted a role with the
ABC network in the United States. Vergara appeared on the ABC situation comedies
Hot Properties and The Knights of Prosperity. She currently stars on the ABC
sitcom Modern Family as Gloria Delgado-Pritchett, for which she was nominated
for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy
Series for 2010, 2011 and 2012 along with a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen
Actors Guild Awards nominations.
Vergara plays Alicia Oviedo in the television show Amas de Casa Desesperadas,
the Colombian version of Desperate Housewives. Her character is essentially the
Colombian counterpart to the Mary Alice Young character in the American show.
She also appeared on the ABC drama Dirty Sexy Money as Jeremy Darling's love
interest. Vergara has made guest appearances in the Mexican telenovela Fuego En
La Sangre.
In 2009, Vergara had a five-week stint on Broadway as "Mama" Morton in the
revival of Chicago.
In 2011, Vergara was supposed to star in The Paperboy, an independent drama
directed by Lee Daniels. When shooting was delayed for a week (which conflicted
with Vergara shooting Season 3 of Modern Family), she was forced to drop out.
In July 2011, she finished filming for the Farrelly brothers' The Three Stooges,
which The Daily Beast described as her first lead role in a film. Vergara has
stated, "I play a mean woman that tries to manipulate the Three Stooges into
killing her husband so that she gets all the money."
In April 2012, she is appearing in her son Manolo's reality show Mi Vida con
Toty on YouTube.
Vergara was the highest-earning woman in U.S. television, taking in $19 million
for the past 12 months on a list released by Forbes.com on July 18, 2012.
In 2011, Vergara was named the new face of CoverGirl, with advertisements to
debut in January 2012.
In April 2011, Vergara debuted in a Diet Pepsi commercial with David Beckham,
and again appeared in a Diet Pepsi commercial in January 2012.
In 2011, it was announced that Vergara is designing a clothing line for K-Mart
targeting soccer moms, and appeared in a number of commercials for Comcast's
Xfinity brand.
Vergara was married at the age of 18 to her childhood sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez.
She gave birth to their son in September 1992.
In 1998, Vergara's older brother, Rafael, was murdered on the streets of Bogota,
Colombia.On May 9, 2011, Vergara's younger brother, Julio, was deported from the
United States to Colombia after being arrested in April; Julio also had a
longtime drug addiction and previous brushes with the law. "To see somebody
dying over 10 years, little by little, that's the worst punishment," Vergara
told Parade magazine. "Now he's like another person."
Vergara was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2000. She followed the treatment
recommended by her doctors surgery and iodine radiation and made a full
recovery.
On July 10, 2012, it was reported that Vergara and her businessman boyfriend
Nick Loeb were engaged.
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Dated 13 December 2012
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