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ABOUT FACE Is it us, or is the media wearing beer goggles?

AMERICA FERRERA'S LOOKS
An overweight young Latina struggling to reconcile Mami's injunctions to chow down with a white girl's pressure to be skinny—has America Ferrera ever played another role? Let's recap: Real Women Have Curves (big gal copes with minority status and the pressure to be thin), Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (ditto), and Ugly Betty (well, you know). Thank goodness her fairy godmother—the entertainment press—is always there to overcompensate with a kind word: The New York Daily News dubbed her "America the beautiful," W fawned over her "gorgeous" looks, and People en Español named her one of its 50 Most Beautiful. Okay, she's not ugly. But she's no Betty.

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