America Ferrera pictured for Marie Claire Magazine

This is what Betty Suarez has been hiding behind those red-rimmed glasses, thick fringe and that mouthful of metal

Unfortunately for the loveable secretary from TV’s Ugly Betty, this will never happen.

Because this is actually her alter ego, actress America Ferrera.

Miss Ferrera was photographed for the latest British edition of Marie Claire magazine.

She even graces the front cover - following in the footsteps of some of the world’s most glamorous women such as Angelina Jolie and Denise Van Outen.

Miss Ferrera, 23, has found fame with the popular U.S. series, which is now in its second season here in the UK.

She plays the good-hearted but dowdy Latina who lands a job as secretary at the fictional Mode.

Betty soon proves herself to be very efficient and is determined to succeed in the fashion world - but is a little hampered by her looks and dress sense.

Miss Ferrera has won Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards for her work in Ugly Betty.

Pictures credit to MarieClaire Magazine
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America Ferrera at a charity event in NY.


America Ferrera is very cute , despite sweat spots

Another larger-than-life celebrity hits the cover of W Magazine! In their May 2007 issue, Ugly Betty actress America Ferrera graces the cover. Here’s a great excerpt about her boyfriend from college, Ryan Piers Williams:

It was at USC that Ferrera met her now boyfriend, Ryan Piers Williams. A tall, handsome, Texas-born aspiring director who currently works for Steven Soderbergh, he cast her in his student film, and the two currently live together and share a golden retriever named Buddy, whom they refer to as “our baby.” At Ferrera’s W photo shoot, Williams sits by her side while she’s being coiffed and made up, telling her how pretty she looks and bravely revealing to the crew that he once allowed her to put mascara on his lashes. Says Ferrera, giggling, “He has the longest eyelashes, but they’re blond at the tips, and I just wanted to see what it would look like.”

As it turned out, Betty’s immense popularity has brought an avalanche of attention to Ferrera. Now paparazzi stalkings and demands for autographs are part of her daily life. What truly baffles her are the machinations of the tabloid press. In February one weekly gossip rag ran with a story that Ferrera and Williams were engaged, giving rise to BETTY TO WED headlines all over the Internet. “It’s totally not true!” she insists of the rumor. “And his mom called me and my sisters were calling me, and I was like, ‘Are you kidding? Did you not think I would tell you first?’ And then I put out a statement that it wasn’t true, and that became a whole news story. So now it’s news when something doesn’t happen? Like, news flash: California did not get hit by a hurricane today.”

For America’s full interview with W Magazine, click here. For behind-the-scenes video footage of her cover shoot, click here.

Kirsten Dunst was the April 2007 W Magazine cover girl.

Ugly Betty picked up the NAACP Award for best television comedy series. America Ferrera, who plays Betty, said while accepting, “We knew theme would connect with the American people, who wanted to see fresh faces they can connect with on television.”

Also pictured: Ugly Betty co-stars Tony Plana (Ignacio), Ana Ortiz (Hilda), Mark Indelicato (Justin), and Vanessa Williams (Wilhelmina).