• 9 months ago
Actress Eva Longoria reveals how she has adjusted to motherhood. Then, she shares how she got her post-baby body back into shape.

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00:00 She is an award-winning actress, producer, director,
00:04 and once was a desperate housewife.
00:06 Today, this passionate powerhouse, she's here,
00:08 opening up about her new role as a mom.
00:11 And she's spilling the details on a health secret
00:13 that even surprised me.
00:14 Please welcome Eva Longori.
00:16 [cheers and applause]
00:19 [upbeat music]
00:22
00:29 - Hi.
00:30 - You look absolutely marvelous.
00:32 - Thank you. How are you?
00:34 - Thank you for being here. - Thank you. Hi!
00:36 - Oh, my goodness.
00:38 It has been--they were so excited to see you today.
00:41 - Oh, thank you. - Jumping up and down.
00:43 - I'm so excited to be here.
00:45 - Well, it's been five years. - Since I've been here.
00:47 - Yes, you went off and got married, had a baby.
00:50 - A lot has happened. - A lot's happened.
00:52 - I got their eyes.
00:53 - How are you adjusting to motherhood?
00:56 - Amazing. He's amazing.
00:58 He's the best baby in the world, so I'm really lucky.
01:01 - Santiago. - Santiago, yeah.
01:03 - So cute. - Thank you. Yeah, it's great.
01:05 Motherhood's gonna be great.
01:07 - So how do you go from having a baby to within three months--
01:10 three months postpartum, she's on a runway.
01:12 How's that possible? - Well, I'm not a model.
01:15 - Well, you look pretty good there.
01:17 - Thank you, thank you.
01:18 No, it takes a village, by the way,
01:20 that I had five Spanx on.
01:22 I had, like, ten girls,
01:24 like, with four people getting me into it.
01:26 Like, I was like, "Zip it up!"
01:29 So, yeah, I'm, like, a normal human being like everybody else.
01:32 I hate diet, I hate exercise, I hate having to do it,
01:36 but at the end of the hard days, it's worth it.
01:39 - There's a picture of Santiago you asked us to show.
01:41 This is a photo of you breastfeeding.
01:43 - Yes, at work. I was directing.
01:47 - Explain how that is. You're a busy mom.
01:49 - Yeah. - Trying to, obviously,
01:50 get your career thriving. - Yeah.
01:52 - Why post a picture of you breastfeeding at work?
01:55 - I'm not a pioneer.
01:57 Women work all the time and have babies and, you know,
02:00 balance it all, and so I had went back to work.
02:03 He was two months old, and I had to go back.
02:05 I was directing, and I said, "It'll be easy
02:07 "'cause I was just directing.
02:08 "At least I don't have to be in front of the camera
02:10 "and looking amazing yet."
02:12 And it was harder. I was like, "Why am I doing this?"
02:16 So I was still breastfeeding, not sleeping,
02:17 up every three hours during the night.
02:19 He was sleeping great, but I wasn't.
02:21 But, yeah, you know, I just--
02:23 I mean, I post all the time about him 'cause I'm so happy
02:26 that he's here on this Earth,
02:28 but at the same time to go, "Oh, okay, you know,
02:30 "you can--women multitask all the time."
02:33 - Are you happy enough to have more children?
02:35 - That's too soon to ask me that question.
02:37 - Pretty good at it.
02:38 Let me ask you about women in general,
02:39 since it is the big challenge I think we face today in America.
02:42 Women are doing 15 things at once,
02:43 including rearing kids. - Yeah.
02:45 - You've been very outspoken in your desire
02:47 to have more women go into what you call STEM,
02:49 which is the word we use for science, technology,
02:52 engineering, math.
02:53 Women to be in science. - Mm-hmm.
02:55 - Why do you believe having a science education
02:57 is so critical, not just for those women,
02:59 but for their families?
03:00 - Well, you know, that's where the future work
03:03 is going to be, is in these STEM fields.
03:05 And so my foundation focuses on preparing
03:09 specifically Latinas to go into these fields
03:12 because there's gonna be-- just this year alone,
03:14 there's gonna be a million computing jobs available.
03:16 So for every person who comes out of college
03:18 with a STEM degree, there's gonna be four jobs
03:21 waiting for them, where if you come out
03:23 with a different degree, there's four people
03:25 waiting for that one job. - Yeah.
03:27 - And so it's like, that's the future workforce
03:29 of our country, so let's educate them early.
03:33 And also we want women to have economic mobility,
03:36 economic independence, and those are the jobs
03:38 that are gonna do it. - So why is that--
03:40 why is that message not heard by women already?
03:42 - Says the actor, by the way. - Says the actor.
03:44 That's right. Although--
03:45 [applause]
03:46 Oh, that might be where it needs to go,
03:47 'cause I think women do believe they can become actors
03:49 or, you know, do jobs that are highly competitive.
03:53 - Yeah, yeah. - And they give up
03:55 the opportunity to do all the other great stuff.
03:56 Why is that message not out there?
03:58 - Yeah, well, I think also, you know,
04:00 with social media, everybody thinks,
04:02 "Oh, I can just be famous."
04:03 So I think it's finding something that you love,
04:07 'cause it's not just about making money.
04:09 It's about, "What am I gonna be good at?
04:10 "What am I gonna be happy to get out--
04:12 get up every day and do?"
04:14 - In the arts, there also has been
04:17 an interesting bias against women in some positions.
04:19 Like, director of photography,
04:20 which is a person who makes the picture look beautiful.
04:22 You fought hard to have a woman serve that role
04:26 on a recent project, if you will.
04:27 - Yes, yes, I produced a show called "Grand Hotel"
04:29 that's coming out soon,
04:31 and I wanted a female cinematographer.
04:35 I wanted a female DP on this show,
04:37 and they were like, "Bob's great, and John's great."
04:40 And I'm like, "I'm sure they're great,
04:41 but I'm sure there's a great woman, too."
04:42 And sure enough, we found her, Alison Kelly.
04:44 She's amazing. [applause]
04:46 And I think it's not gonna change.
04:48 It's not gonna change unless we change it,
04:50 unless we demand it.
04:51 And so we have to have women at the table.
04:54 - Thank you for watching.
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