She could be white, black, Asian. It's very nondescript and that's the great thing about the show. It's about four women in a neighborhood. No matter what color, what race, what culture you are, you deal with the same problems in life.

I've changed dresses four times - I'm sweating like a pig.

I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can't even walk.

I was born in Corpus Christi, Texas, the youngest of four girls, including my oldest sister, Lisa, who has special needs. My mom was a special education teacher, and my dad worked on the Army base. We weren't wealthy, but we were determined to succeed.

That night the mosquitoes ate us up. I had bites all over my body. Back home I thought mosquitoes never bit black people. Not as much as they bit white people, anyway. Maybe Vietnamese mosquitoes just bit blacks and whites and didn’t bite Asians.

The Eva Longoria who worked at Wendy's flipping burgers - she needed a tax break. But the Eva Longoria who works on movie sets does not.