You may know her as the loud but lovable Latina in Modern Family, but do you know the real Sofia Vergara? Find out how this single mother from Colombia became one of TV's highest paid actresses and learn about the obstacles she faced along the way.
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00:00I'm very happy to be here tonight.
00:08What are you saying?
00:09That makes no sense.
00:10I can't understand you.
00:16I grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia in a very traditional Catholic home.
00:20My father told me that if I ever did anything artistic, I was going to look like a hooker.
00:25I told him, with these huge boobs that I inherited from your mother, I already look like a hooker.
00:36And of course, it changed everybody's life in our family.
01:07I was with my family at the beach and some casting agent saw me and said,
01:12we're doing this commercial, do you want to do it?
01:14I'm like, no, the nuns are going to kill me, I can't be in a bathing suit.
01:27I moved to the United States looking for that dream, to get money to be able to give my son a great college,
01:35trips, health care.
01:48My brother was killed in Barranquilla, Colombia in the 90s.
01:51It was a very dramatic thing.
01:57He was shot and unfortunately none of us was able to say goodbye to him.
02:04He died instantly.
02:13I decided since I was already living in the United States to bring the rest of my family to where I was living in Florida.
02:20You hear cancer, cancer, cancer, but you never think that you're going to really have to face it yourself.
02:34For me, it's a dream because I never thought that I was going to be doing something that the character was so perfect for me.
03:05We put this on cookies, we put it like this.
03:08You put it on cookies?
03:09My name is Sofia Vergara and I'm Easy Breezy's beautiful cover girl from Colombia.
03:16Why you look at me like you don't understand?
03:22I love you.
03:24Don't be creepy.
03:26No touching.
03:28Sofia Vergara has an amazing body but the face not so much.
03:32I find Kimmel to be the most smug, unlikable host in the late night.
03:36I don't see how anyone can stand to watch him.
03:39But I embrace it. It's who I am. I am proud of being Latina.
03:54I was contacted by a family in Colombia with a son that needed an urgent bone marrow transplant.
04:01And the doctors in Colombia had the technology to do it, but they couldn't provide the appropriate aftercare following the procedure.
04:21We were going to give 10% of the net to empower women in other countries to open their own little business.
04:32See, I have been lucky because I have been able to see her career grow.
04:37I remember her first show for Univision.
04:39I remember when she got her first role in a movie.
04:42See, I have seen how hard she has worked for her success, starting from nothing.
05:01Congratulations, Mama. You did it.