Ana Ortiz: Baby Is So Beautiful It’s Staggering
Ugly Betty’s Ana Ortiz tells hometown paper the Philadelphia Inquirer about her first week as a mama:
“This has been an amazing first week. She is so beautiful it is staggering”, she said, speaking of newborn daughter Paloma Louise Lebenzon. (Hopefully we’ll have a picture soon!)
Ortiz tells a wonderful story about the generosity of co-star America Ferrera, her on-screen sister. On Paloma’s birthday, once Ana, her husband Noah Lebenzon, and baby Paloma were alone, after all the friend and family had left she got a delivery to her room of three dozen freshly baked cookies and ice cold milk from Ferrera and her boyfriend, Ryan Piers Williams.
“How she found a place to deliver freshly baked cookies at 11 p.m. on a Saturday is beyond me, but she did. How cool and thoughtful is that?”, Ana asks.
It’s wonderful to see the cast is still “family” – I think it adds to the on-screen chemistry. This dynamic means that, even though Ferrera and Ortiz have completely different body types, and even more different accents, they are fully believable as sisters.
I hope Ana is getting her rest, because filming begins soon, and we hear she’s going to be fending off mobsters. She’ll need all of her strength!
Image: Copyright © 2008 American Broadcasting Companies, Inc./ PATRICK HARBRON
Siblings having different accents is not as uncommon as you might think. Sometimes one sibling will consciously choose to speak without a regional accent, but sometimes different accents just happen in a family. I have five siblings, and of the six of us there is one sister who says certain words with an accent I cannot explain. We all grew up in the same house, in the same town, in the same state. There is one other sister who sometimes says some words like this particular sister, but none of the rest of us speak that way, ever. None of our neighbors or friends spoke these certain words the way my sister does either.
I also have a friend from Louisiana who has no trace of an accent, nor does his eldest sister, but the other two sisters sound like they just rolled out of a Cajun swamp.