Idk I didn’t care for or follow Perez, so I’m not sure if it started for him, but I do remember her saying gross shit about Mexicans in a magazine.
“ Alba is my last name and I'm proud of that. But that's it. My grandparents were born in California, the same as my parents, and though I may be proud of my last name, I'm American. Throughout my whole life, I've never felt connected to one particular race or heritage, nor did I feel accepted by any. If you break it down, I'm less Latina than Cameron Diaz, whose father is Cuban. But people don't call her Latina because she's blonde.”
"I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out."
"My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college, the only Hispanic person at work and the only one at the all-white country club. He tried to forget his Mexican roots, because he never wanted his kids to be made to feel different in America. He and my grandmother didn't speak Spanish to their children. Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have finally cut loose."
"My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere."
She’s obviously done a 180 and claims to be proud of her heritage now, but tbh I’m not sure how much I believe that after saying shit about how you “finally cut loose” from being Mexican and that the term Latina does not fit you
😡 thanks! For the quotes the mexican men spreading their seeds and women pop them out??? Finally cut loose? What a POS! I knew that she was latina only per pay for her basic ass mommy products
Yeah, the one about Mexicans spreading their seed is particularly gross. Not only so you want to deny your heritage and say that you’re American and not Latin, you have to shit on your entire ethnicity while you’re at it. I’ve never forgotten these quotes or that interview so I have never liked her lol
Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have finally cut loose."
WELL, WHEW, BITCH, THAT WAS CLOSE! YOU'RE SAVED!!!
now i know why i don't like her. i always thought it was bc of rumors i believed about her being nasty to jensen ackles on set (i was a big spn fan, sue me), and hated that i didn't like her over that bc sexist asshole men likely perpetuated that shit.
i remember reading that. it was still a ridiculous reason to dislike a woman, but i guess i didn't completely realize back then just how skewed everything was toward making men look great and women look terrible.
and then to find out the real demon on that set was michael weatherly. now that i'm so much older, i see how young she really was back then (just a baby, honestly) and i feel kinda terrible for her.
the quote about the spreading seeds and popping out babies is absolutely disgusting.
the rest of the quote is honestly sad to me. i can understand why her grandparents did what they did - to not feel othered, for their kids not to be either. but they still were given that 3 generations in and jessica still feels (or felt) like she didn't belong to any culture.
Yeah I do get some of that - im Puerto Rican and my Spanish is pretty awful and nonexistent too for much of the same reasons. My parents grew up here in NY but their parents lived in PR and they were the first to grow up on the “mainland” - and even then, my mom bounced between NY and PR. I definitely get feeling othered; the Latin kids wanted nothing to do with me growing up and the white kids called me spic every day from 1st to 8th grade. Despite that, I would never have said that shit about my ethnicity or culture. I can’t imagine ever telling someone that I cut loose from being Puerto Rican or lamenting how unfair it is that someone who is “more Latin” than me doesn’t get that label
While gross, I will tell you most Mexicans I know say the same thing. One of my co-works says all the time 'I have 50 cousins, we're Mexican all we do is make babies' so while it's something people are uncomfortable with, I feel like it's one of those things that people within the culture aren't as uncomfortable with
"I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere."
I understand what she was trying to say here and I've heard many 3rd or 4th gen POC say something similar as well.
I also do wonder if she didn't want the "spicy hot latina" stereotype attributed to her by gross men, so she tried to downplay her background for that reason. Hell, I get the spicy latina/caliente comments from men in the States when I used to travel for work there & even as a non-latina it made me uncomfortable as hell.
She also said something about how she had been dieting since she was a kid because she didn’t want to fat like us. Some shit along those lines. I mean, no offense to her, but has she looked in the mirror? She’s not exactly white passing so Idg how she was able to bypass prejudice in Hollywood specifically. One of my friends even thought she was half-black because of her features. Charlie Sheen has even talked about he couldn’t get jobs with his original name. Idk if she was ignoring shit on purpose, or....
“ Alba is my last name and I'm proud of that. But that's it. My grandparents were born in California, the same as my parents, and though I may be proud of my last name, I'm American. Throughout my whole life, I've never felt connected to one particular race or heritage, nor did I feel accepted by any. If you break it down, I'm less Latina than Cameron Diaz, whose father is Cuban. But people don't call her Latina because she's blonde.”
"I've got cousins galore. Mexicans just spread all their seeds. And the women just pop them out."
"My grandfather was the only Mexican at his college, the only Hispanic person at work and the only one at the all-white country club. He tried to forget his Mexican roots, because he never wanted his kids to be made to feel different in America. He and my grandmother didn't speak Spanish to their children. Now, as a third-generation American, I feel as if I have finally cut loose."
"My whole life, when I was growing up, not one race has ever accepted me, ... So I never felt connected or attached to any race specifically. I had a very American upbringing, I feel American, and I don't speak Spanish. So, to say that I'm a Latin actress, OK, but it's not fitting; it would be insincere."
She’s obviously done a 180 and claims to be proud of her heritage now, but tbh I’m not sure how much I believe that after saying shit about how you “finally cut loose” from being Mexican and that the term Latina does not fit you
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WELL, WHEW, BITCH, THAT WAS CLOSE! YOU'RE SAVED!!!
now i know why i don't like her. i always thought it was bc of rumors i believed about her being nasty to jensen ackles on set (i was a big spn fan, sue me), and hated that i didn't like her over that bc sexist asshole men likely perpetuated that shit.
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the rest of the quote is honestly sad to me. i can understand why her grandparents did what they did - to not feel othered, for their kids not to be either. but they still were given that 3 generations in and jessica still feels (or felt) like she didn't belong to any culture.
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I understand what she was trying to say here and I've heard many 3rd or 4th gen POC say something similar as well.
I also do wonder if she didn't want the "spicy hot latina" stereotype attributed to her by gross men, so she tried to downplay her background for that reason. Hell, I get the spicy latina/caliente comments from men in the States when I used to travel for work there & even as a non-latina it made me uncomfortable as hell.
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