Laura Harring
Where you’ve seen her:
As the first Latina to be crowned Miss USA, then in films like
Lambada: The Forbidden Dance, Mullhollan Drive, and
John Q.
Play…be played with—doesn’t really matter:
“Men in Hollywood are spoiled. They just want to play, and women allow themselves to be played
with. If a man touches me and I feel it’s just lust, it turns me off. I need to feel cared for by a man who is confident, philosophical, spiritual. If not—see ya!”
Yeah, yeah, yeah—what about that Tantric part again?
By the time the free-spirited brunette turned 21, she had already ditched her native Mexico
for boarding schools in Texas and Switzerland, practiced Tantric philosophy while doing social work in India, backpacked across virginal Philippine beaches, and finally returned stateside to become the first Latina ever crowned Miss USA.
We get those faces a lot:
“I didn’t realize how much of a loner I was until I saw the photo of myself getting crowned, all excited to be winning, with the other contestants behind me making faces that said, ‘Not her!’”
April 2002 (#52)