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My perfect day would be spent poolside with some friends.
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I've learned to trust myself that I'm going to make healthy choices because I care about my health.
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It was tragic every single time my mom told me we were moving. I would always envy my friends who had grown up in the same house their entire life, and they had markings on the wall of 'me at five years old' and all that. It made me so sad. I wished I'd had that.
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In high school, I was friends with everybody. I had my core group of friends, but I could flow through different social groups pretty easily.
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Invest in a trainer. You see the progress so quickly, and you push yourself in new ways.
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I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am. I'm a full-blooded Brazilian, with an entire extended family of Brazilians, but I was born and raised in the U.S.
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I like communicating and being open and committing. That, for me, has always been something that I like to do.
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A good listener goes a long way.
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Bullies have a soft spot, and mean girls have a reason to be that way. It's a matter of understanding why a person is the way they are.
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If you're going to become a better person, do it in high school.
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If I were to be a role model, it would just come out of going the college route, getting training, and trusting that's the most secure path you can take - a path where a degree is involved. You know you went to college, and you have that under your belt.
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Because I get my hair styled in so many different ways, when I get the chance to be natural and just me as a person and not an actress, I like to have a stable, consistent look that reminds me that I'm me.
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I'm not more Brazilian than I am American or vice-versa - I'm very much a combination of all of those things.
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For me, being an 'American Latina' means identifying with and being influenced by both my American upbringing and my Latin heritage, and I have so much appreciation for how those two cultures have created who I am.
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I feel like I know I have enough friends who support me through those times. Like, I'll call a friend and be like, 'I really don't feel good about what I ate today,' and she'll be like, 'Dude, it's fine.'
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People know what I look like. I take photos on my own, and I don't edit them, so people know.
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I spent a lot of my childhood moving around, so I was constantly adjusting to different environments and finding a new identity.
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I've always struggled with having frizzy hair, and it doesn't really cooperate the way I want it to.
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When I go to Brazil, I feel like an American, and in the U.S., I always notice the traits that make me Brazilian.
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I often hear things like, 'You don't look Latina enough,' and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don't look Latina?