Eva Longoria has said she's glad that she wasn't famous as a teenager as she already knew who she was as a person by the time she became a star.
Speaking at the Dublin Web Summit, the Desperate Housewives star said, "I became famous quite late in life, according to Hollywood standards. I was 28 or 29.
"I already had my Bachelor's degree, I went to college, I was very set in my identity prior to this thing called fame. If you let the tabloids, the news or the media define you as 'America's sweetheart' or 'America's party girl,' and you kind of go in that direction, that's when you can get into trouble. That didn't happen to me because I was so set in who I was, it just kind of falls off my shoulders."
The star added that she doesn't feel under pressure to look young, "I'm still young, so I haven't experienced the ageism yet. I was on a show called Desperate Housewives, where most of the female leads were over the age of 40 and it became a global phenomenon."
She added: "People tend to put women in boxes - she's sexy, she's smart, she's ambitious, she's a mom, she's young... where women are very complex and the greatest advantage we have is that we're always underestimated."
