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I’m fearless,” Sofi a Vergara says. “I don’t complain. Even when horrible things happen to me, I go on.”

Vergara has experienced more than her share of adver-sity in her 39 years, and she’s faced it with remarkable gumption

and humor. Some of her strength of character and positive atti-tude can be seen in her Emmy-nominated performance as Gloria, the sassy, sexy trophy wife of Ed O’Neill’s character on ABC’s hit comedy Modern Family. “People think of me as Gloria,” she says. “I so much enjoy playing her. This is the role of my life.” The part has made Vergara a star, nine years after her American movie debut in Big Trouble with Tim Allen. Her new fi lm, the 3-D comedy The Smurfs, opens this week.

Sitting elegantly on a black leather slipper chair in a Manhattan hotel, Vergara is movie-star gorgeous. Her famous curves are clothed in a black V-neck pullover and black leggings, and her long brown hair softly frames her face. She is fl irtatious, playful, and self-aware.

“You don’t expect beautiful women to be funny, yes?” She winks. “That’s something they always tell me. I guess it’s a very good com-

pliment. You know, I was the class clown in Catholic school, but I never thought I would make a living out of it!”

Vergara’s story begins in Barranquilla, Colombia, where she and her three siblings were raised in a middle-class home. Her father was a cattle farm owner; her mother, a homemaker. “My parents were together on and off until they divorced in 1993,” she says. “Fighting, leaving, coming back. Such craziness is worse than divorce. People shouldn’t stay married because of the kids. That’s torture for everyone.”

Vergara says she was “very skinny” as a little girl. “My nickname was Palillo—toothpick. Then I started getting more voluptuous.” When she was 17, she was discovered while on a Colombian beach with her family. “They said, ‘Oh, let’s take a picture of you. We’re looking for somebody for a Pepsi commercial,’ ” she recalls. “I was like, ‘No, the nuns would kill me.’ I was in my senior year. And my mother said, ‘Yeah! Take the picture!’ ” The commercial made her famous throughout Latin America. (Now, with the ads she’s doing in the U.S. for Diet Pepsi, things have come full circle. “I charge them a lot, not like the fi rst time!” she says, laughing.)

HIGH-SPIRITED MODERN FAMILY STAR SOFIA VERGARA OPENS UP

ABOUT FAMILY TRAGEDIES AND HOW SHE’S WEATHERED THE TOUGH TIMES

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and Vergara has her fi rst live-in boyfriend since splitting from her husband in 1993. Although she’s been romantically linked over the years with the likes of Enrique Iglesias, Tom Cruise, and Mark Wahlberg, she never remarried. “I never wanted my son confused,” she says. “It’s okay for your kid to see you together on vacations, or going out for lunch or

dinner, but that’s not the same as seeing him staying overnight in your room.”

Her new love is Nick Loeb, 35, a businessman and Florida politician who is contemplating running for the Senate next year. The couple met at a party in January 2010; Loeb was sepa-rated from his wife (and divorced by the end of the year). “Nick is energetic, hardworking, athletic, fun, and so handsome and tall!” Vergara boasts of her beau. “We have a very happy rela-

tionship. Last year we rented a place for six months in New York. It was the fi rst time that I lived with somebody since I got divorced.” She also nursed Loeb after an August 2010 car crash landed him in intensive care with a pelvic fracture and a broken leg. “He was in L.A. visiting me,” she recalls. “I felt so bad. I took him into my house and took care of him.” Now they’re looking to buy a home in Greenwich Village. “New York is my favorite city in the world,” she says.

Vergara is also excited about a deal with Kmart to create and market her own line of products for their stores. “I’m designing and picking everything: clothes, shoes, bags. I’m trying to bring affordable quality to people. We launch in September.”

And there may be other changes on the hori-zon: “Nick wants babies,” she confi des. “Imagine me, again with a baby, when Manolo is 20! I guess eventually I’ll do it—for love.”

Do the good times now make up for the bad?“I try not to think about the bad times,” she

says. “Bad things happen—killings, sickness, heartache. I’ll never fi nd the answer why, but there must be a reason, because I know God is good.”

Then she smiles, a perfect wordless expression of her unyielding optimism. “Why lie in your bed getting depressed?” she asks. “Instead, use your energy to move forward. Love and rebuild life!”

immediately thought of my child.” She had radio-active iodine treatment and surgery. “They made a big cut here,” she says, pointing to a scar on her neck. “Thank God, I’m in remission.”

Undaunted, the actress made her Hollywood breakthrough in 2002, appearing in an episode of ABC’s My Wife & Kids and the movie Big Trouble; her role as a spitfi re cocktail waitress in 2003’s Chasing Papi brought her further attention. To her surprise, she was asked to dye her hair dark. “I’m a natural blonde, like my siblings,” she says. “When I started auditioning for American acting roles, they didn’t know where to put me. A blond Latina? In L.A. they’re used to Latin women looking more Mexican. But if you go to Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, everybody is blond.”

Vergara signed a long-term contract with ABC and moved to L.A. in 2005. She was cast in three successive sit-coms; the fi rst two failed, but the third, Modern Family, was a critical and popular hit almost as soon as it debuted in 2009. “I still cannot believe it,” she says. “What is so fantastic about the show is every-body in the family can watch it.”

As for her own family, Manolo will be going to college in the fall,

At 18, Vergara wed José González, “my high school sweetheart, the only one,” she says. “We married and had a son, Mano-lo.” She also studied dentistry in Bogotá. “What I was really interested in was med-ical school, but my husband and everyone said, ‘You’re a woman trying to have a family. You can’t be a doctor on call.’ The next best thing was dental school.”

The young couple grew apart, divorcing amicably after two years. “We’re still close friends,” Vergara says. “When José comes to the United States, he stays with me.” In 1994, Vergara moved with Manolo to Miami, where she hosted travel and game shows for Univision television. Then disaster struck.

“My older brother, Rafael, was killed in Colom-bia,” she says—shot during an attempted kidnap-ping in 1998. “A nightmare.” After Rafael’s mur-der, Vergara brought most of her family—her mother; her sister, Veronica; and her younger brother, Julio—to live with her in Miami. Her father stayed in Colombia (he died last December of complications following a brain aneurysm). “Mother was like a zombie,” she says. “I wanted to be with them. So I got a big house and we all lived together. I am so grateful to be in this country.”

But the family heartache wasn’t over. “After Rafael died, Julio had a rough time,” Vergara says. “They were very close.” Julio went off to college in Michigan, but “he wasn’t ready. He started with alcohol there, then pot, on to cocaine, to crack.” She pauses, her voice breaking. “Now he’s like another person. To see somebody dying over 10 years, little by little, that’s the worst punish-ment.” Julio is now 34, and Vergara says she’s moving him back to Colombia to get care.

“With so many bad things happening, it creates a tough skin,” she adds quietly. “You just have to take a deep breath and keep on going—if not for yourself, then for everybody you love.”

Vergara’s resolve was further tested in 2000, when she was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. “I’ve never done drugs or smoked. And I don’t eat red meat,” she says. “I felt totally healthy, and suddenly they tell me I have cancer? I was scared. I

FAMILY MATTERS:

Above, Vergara with her 19-year-old

son, Manolo (center), and her boyfriend,

Nick Loeb; right, with Ed O’Neill on

Modern Family. “Now the writers even put in my mispronuncia-

tions,” she says.

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SundayDinner

SERVINGS: 4 | PER SERVING: 320 calories, 20g carbs, 18g protein, 18g fat,60mg cholesterol, 390mg sodium, 2g fi ber

Balsamic Cherry Pork Chops2 Tbsp (plus 2 tsp) olive oil

¼ cup onion, fi nely chopped

2 garlic cloves, fi nely chopped

¼ cup balsamic vinegar

3 cups frozen cherries, chopped

¼ cup chicken stock

3 Tbsp cold butter, cut into cubes

½ tsp salt, plus extra to taste

½ tsp freshly ground black

pepper, plus extra to taste

4 (6-oz) bone-in pork chops

1. Heat 2 Tbsp oil in a large

skillet over medium. Add onion

and garlic; cook, stirring, for 2

minutes. Stir in vinegar; cook for

30 seconds. Add cherries and

stock. Cook over high until liquid

is thick and slightly syrupy, 5 to 7

minutes. Whisk in butter, ½ tsp

salt, and ½ tsp pepper. Transfer

half of glaze to a separate bowl.

2. Coat chops with remaining oil

and season with salt and pepper.

Brush chops with cherry glaze.

3. Preheat grill to high and oil the

grate. Grill chops 5 minutes

per side or until cooked through.

4. Let chops sit for 5 minutes.

Top with remaining cherry glaze.

Stick a Fork in It—It’s Well Done!

My brother, Bobby, and I were so fortunate growing up. We’ve faced a lot of challenges in our lives, but being hungry was never one of them. On any given night, Mom [Paula Deen] would prepare these tremendous

traditional Southern meals for us. One of my favorites was fried pork chops. She fried a lot of chops because they were

affordable and pretty easy to prepare. It’s

interesting, though: My mom was always so worried about trichinosis and her “babies.” I think I’d already learned the word “trich-inosis” by age 6—and Mom would over-cook our pork as a precaution against it.

These days, I try not to make a lot of fried food. So this recipe is like the pork chops I grew up loving, but cooked on the grill. Either way, I still like mine completely done!

Food Network star Jamie Deen explains why his mom, Paula, always overcooked her chops

P “I’d have a nice glass of crisp, clean white wine with this dish. But if you like red, there are no bound-aries. You can do a merlot or a cab.”

P “I always give my son Jack, who’s 4, sauces on the side, and I credit Green

Eggs and Ham for his willingness to try them. We read that book all the time.”

P “A balsamic cherry glaze just makes pork more elegant—and kids love it, too.”

For a chance to win a copy of Jamie and Bobby Deen’s

cookbook, The Deen

Bros. Get Fired Up, go to dashrecipes.com

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The term “random” is not synonymous with “fair.” A drawing would surely produce two unhappy siblings.

Here’s a more equitable solution: All three siblings would bid against each other for the privilege of getting the preferred item. That is, each person would offer whatever he or she is willing to pay for its desirable quali-ties. The special item would then go to the highest bidder. The two other siblings would split the cash and receive the similar items.

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Our youngest

daughter, Cait, bursts through the door, scoops up our pug, and sits down

at the kitchen table.Gracie raises her smushed face

and locks eyes with Cait. They are old friends, these two. Gracie’s curly tail quivers as Cait softly scratches her graying head.

Click. “Mom.” Click, click. “Mom.” Click, click, click.

“Okay, Mom,” Cait says, sighing. “Enough pictures.”

She sounds annoyed, but she’s laughing, too. If there is one thing Cait’s used to, it’s her camera-totin’ mama hovering like the paparazzi around the pope.

Most families have someone like me. We’re the amateur photogra-phers documenting the lives of friends, family, and unsuspecting strangers lurking in the back-ground. We leap and lunge to cap-ture every move, every expression.

We’re underappreciated. Scorned, even. Fine. We are artists. All we ask is that you stop fl apping your hands in front of your face when we focus on you. It’s a camera, not a shark attack.

My dad was our family photog-rapher. He loved to line up his four kids by age wherever he found us, from the stairs in our center hall-way to the Linesville spillway in Pennsylvania—“Where the Ducks

Views Parade.com/views By Connie Schultz

Me and My Candid CameraClick! I am the uno� cial paparazza of my family, whether they like it or not.

laughter. The meaningfulness of it all. They’re as free as seagulls, because they never have to worry about for-getting these precious times. For that, they have me. If I were any

more “in the moment,” I’d be the second hand on our singing-bird clock.

Like all family albums, mine are full of small, per-fect moments. A 30-year chronicle of Mom’s bee-hives and bouffants. A curious child’s pinch to a grandmother’s bosom. A bearded boy’s steady gaze as he stands tall in a toga, poised to rule the world.

I made that toga for my son, Andy, in 1985, after he was cast as Zeus in a school play. We framed his 10-year-old face with six bags of fluffy pillow stuffing and wrapped him so tight in a bed sheet that he had to walk like a penguin.

“Look at you,” I said, kissing his nose before taking the photo. “You’re Zeus, king of the gods.” Or not.

During the play, I heard a father whisper to his wife, “Oh, look, it’s Santa fresh from the sauna.”

I examine the evidence framed on my desk.

Zeus, I say to myself. He was defi nitely Zeus.

Walk on the Fish.” (He took a lot of pictures of the ducks, too.)

Dad was all about focus. He’d tell us to stand still, and then he’d yell, “Everybody! Hold your breath!” We’d suck in air and freeze. In thou-sands of photos, we look like a fam-ily of welterweight wrestlers.

Dad started teaching me how to use his Kodak Instamatic when I was about 6. Almost immediately, he ordered me to stop taking photos of everyone’s rear end. He also issued a lifetime ban on snap-ping him asleep in the Barca-lounger. Over time, photography became our shared hobby. Whenever he upgraded his cam-era, he’d give me the old one. He almost always picked up the tab for developing pictures, too.

Rarely would Dad pose for a shot. “I already know what I look like,” he’d say.

Every once in a while, though, he’d pull Mom in close and ask me to take a picture with his camera. Parents have special smiles for their children. My mom and dad never looked more serene than when they were look-ing into the lens of their daugh-ter’s camera.

Occasionally, someone wags a fi nger at me and says, “You should put down your camera and live in the moment.” Please.

Life is sweeping up family and friends in one big swirl of milestones and minutiae. Oh, the joy. The

THROUGH THE LENS OF LOVE:

Top, my mother, Janey Schultz, in fall 1978. Middle, Cait and sweet Gracie last month. Bottom, Andy in 1985—more Santa or Zeus? You decide.

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