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Eva Longoria candidly opens up about feeling like the 'ugly duckling' of her family


The Desperate Housewives star, 50, is famed for her flawless looks - however the star noted that she 'wasn't the pretty one' compared to her three sisters.

Eventually, Eva achieved a degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M, using scholarship money from a beauty pageant she had won to partly fund her studies. Eva had discovered that she is related to the legendary actress during an appearance on Dr. Henry Louis Gates' genealogy series, Faces of America. Recalling the moment during her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last week, the actress explained: 'He cross-references everybody's DNA to see if we share a relative in the last 100 years.

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