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My family came from Ecuador.

In Ecuador, if I go after an Ecuadoran, I'm in trouble; if I go after a Costa Rican, I'm a hero.

Being Ecuadorian is, I don't want to say it's tough but it's... something special to me.

I was very skinny and very lanky and kind of awkward. In Puerto Rico, everybody is a little more voluptuous, with these beautiful bodies, and there I was, the skinny, lanky girl.

Anybody who's been to Ecuador wants to go back because it's beautiful out there.

I was neither black enough for the black kids or Dominican enough for the Dominican kids. I didn't have a safe category.

I've always been more in touch with my Ecuadorian side. I speak Spanish.

I was fair-skinned in a country that's about the outdoors.

I think my sense of color I have got from my upbringing in Peru.

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.