Jamie Lynn Sigler

Photographs by Antoine Verglas

Where you’ve seen her:
As mob daughter Meadow on HBO’s crime-saga phenomenon The Sopranos.

Say her name:
“The one thing I look for in a guy is confidence—if you want to talk to me, come up and talk. I’m more than willing. If you don’t know my name, that’s OK—just ask. But don’t come up and call me Meadow. You’ve already got one strike against you.”

Our education now seems incomplete:
“When I was in 10th grade, I did Anything Goes, and the costume consisted of these little shorts and a halter top. We were performing for an elementary school, and all of a sudden my whole shirt fell down. I wasn’t wearing a bra, so basically I gave these kids their first shot of boobs. Of course, my friends were in the back, screaming, ‘Take it off!’”

You could be Icelandic-Chinese…
“I have no Italian in me. I’m Cuban, Greek, Romanian, and Sephardic Jew, so I couldn’t get further from Italian. But I guess I’ve been adopted into that family, too.”

Bless the Lord:
“I’m naturally curvy—I’ve got my mom’s Latin figure. I’m a spiritual girl; I have faith in God, and this is what God gave me. I have no problem showing it. I have no complaints, and I don’t hear any complaints from anybody else, either.”

August 2001 (#45)