Eva Longoria, born and raised in Corpus Christi, Texas was born the youngest and fourth child in her family. At age 15 she wanted to start saving money to help pay for her further education so she had taken a job at a local Wendy's. This job experience also expanded in her college career where she had also worked as an auto mechanic, dentist assistant and more. Longoria had also entered into a beauty pageant at Texas A&M Kingsville to help pay for her college textbooks (a fifth place prize), however, in a surprise victory she had won first place and had won a full scholarship for her senior year of college.
After her pageant victory at her small college, she had enrolled in becoming 'Miss Corpus Christi' where she had earned a trip to Los Angeles and in turn a new career. At age 29, she had finally received her breakthrough roll in ABC's Desperate Housewives. The show became a success and she became a symbol for Latina success in recent Hollywood. Longoria claims that the media had tried to distort her personal image, however, from the experience she had in life she had kept herself grounded and proceeded to become an image of success.
Growing up in a Latina(o) family had made Longoria more compassionate about giving back to the community and trying to help out the people she knows of back in Texas. One charity that she had started was Eva's Heros, an organization in San Antonio that helps out the mentally handicap. This sort of charity she runs is from the influence of her eldest sister who was born with a mental disability. The love and compassion her family had to take care of her and her sisters was the strong bond that most Latinos(as) have with their families and because of this, Longoria feels the need to help out the people who deserve it.
-Alex
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