Gina Rodriguez Covers Women's Health May 2016
There Are No Words to Describe How Fit Gina Rodriguez Looks in the New Issue of Women's Health
![On using social media for good: "I'm trying to use my social media as a way to communicate that I'm flawed and that I'm okay with it. It's a very strange feeling to be okay with a little cellulite or a little extra anything. I don't look at it and feel terrified anymore, and my confidence changed because of that. I carry myself differently."
On her role models in the industry: "Growing up, there weren't too many of us [Latinas] on screen. Rita Moreno, which I was so blessed to do a tribute to her at the Kennedy Center Honors, which was a dream come true because it was 15-years-ago that I prayed for that moment or thought about that moment. That just goes to show you, you gotta like never give up because 15 years is a long time! But then you got it, and then you experience it, and you're like, this is incredible, I get to tell one of my heroes how much I love her. Rita Moreno talked about diversity, she talked about being Latino, she talked about being a woman, she talked about sexuality, she talked about stereotypes. That was huge for me. Meryl Streep, who was never viewed for beauty, but for her talent. I mean, beautiful woman, don't get me wrong, but her talent was at the forefront and I always felt like if I worked on my talent, because I never was a cookie cut out of what I saw on screen."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/ps-image-unavailable.png "On using social media for good: \"I'm trying to use my social media as a way to communicate that I'm flawed and that I'm okay with it. It's a very strange feeling to be okay with a little cellulite or a little extra anything. I don't look at it and feel terrified anymore, and my confidence changed because of that. I carry myself differently.\"
On her role models in the industry: \"Growing up, there weren't too many of us [Latinas] on screen. Rita Moreno, which I was so blessed to do a tribute to her at the Kennedy Center Honors, which was a dream come true because it was 15-years-ago that I prayed for that moment or thought about that moment. That just goes to show you, you gotta like never give up because 15 years is a long time! But then you got it, and then you experience it, and you're like, this is incredible, I get to tell one of my heroes how much I love her. Rita Moreno talked about diversity, she talked about being Latino, she talked about being a woman, she talked about sexuality, she talked about stereotypes. That was huge for me. Meryl Streep, who was never viewed for beauty, but for her talent. I mean, beautiful woman, don't get me wrong, but her talent was at the forefront and I always felt like if I worked on my talent, because I never was a cookie cut out of what I saw on screen.\"")
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