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Julie Bowen says being 'pit against' Modern Family costar Sofía Vergara by press was 'really disappointing'

Julie Bowen recalls being 'pit against' her 'Modern Family' costar Sofía Vergara by the press, saying they 'kept trying to make me and Sofía sort of Betty and Veronica.'

In an interview with Jennie Garth for her I Choose Me podcast,Bowen discussed how she felt pressured by the press to appear in conflict with Vergara, who played her stepmother on the long-running sitcom. "Every night I get a call or email that says, 'So-and-so trash mag will be running a story that you are icy to Sofía Vergara because you are jealous of her fame," she explained. No one would mistake her for like a fourteen-year-old boy from behind like they do me all the time," Bowen joked, displaying some of that self-effacing humor of Vergara's that she admired.

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