Sofia Vergara Admits, ‘I’m A Natural Blonde!’

Sofia Vergara has become a breakout star thanks to her impeccable comedic timing on “Modern Family,” but her success might not have happened if she had retained her natural hair color – which isn’t brown.

“I’m a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn’t know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent— but I had blonde hair,” she told Self magazine’s October 2010 issue. “It was ignorance: They thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek. The moment I dyed my hair dark, it was, ‘Oh, she’s the hot Latin girl.’ I loved it. I’d always felt a little ‘too much’ as a blonde, like a big-mouth version of Pamela Anderson. Being brunette toned me down a bit.”

Sofia admitted that when she was a teen, she wanted to tone her shape down physically – via a breast reduction.

“When I was 13, I got these ridiculous boobs. I wanted surgery. I told my mom, ‘As soon as I’m older, please take these boobs away.’ She said, ‘Sofia, shut up. When you’re 18, it will be different.’ I was like, ‘Why would I want these huge t**s? I’m a 34DD.’ It’s hard to dress. No matter what I wear, I look like a stripper,” she said. “That said, I’m grateful I have them, and honestly, they’ve helped me a lot in my career. And I’ve always felt sexy.”

The actress has a sexy way of working out – Latin dancing – even though she hates sweating it out.

“I hate to work out. I get in a bad mood when I have to do it! I’m not athletic. But I love dancing to Latin music, so I have a trainer who dances with me for an hour, three times a week,” she said. “The truth is, you work out for health and you do look better. And I have a responsibility to the show. Nobody wants to see Gloria with a flat a**.”

While she’s a funny lady, Sofia had a very serious scare with cancer in the last decade.

“Seven years ago, I found out I had thyroid cancer,” she revealed. “When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic. I had my thyroid gland removed, then radiation. It was hard, but now I’m in remission, and the scar doesn’t bother me. After the surgery in 2003, I had my son Photoshop a Frankenstein scar on my neck and sent it to my friends and said, ‘I’m fine, I look perfect!’ It was really funny.”