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 her family: "My family. My family, they're just so driven and so motivated even after failure, after failure, there's no stopping them. They know success is just eventually gonna hit. As an actor, that is probably one of the greatest things they gave me because I hear 'No, No, No, No, No, No' and you're like, when is it going to give? And you think to yourself, if I just don't stop, it's going to crack. Eventually. The ceiling is going to break through and I'm going to come tumbling down and hopefully there is somebody there to catch me. They really gave me a heart of steel."
On her other life passions: "To be honest, growing up I always wanted to be a teacher. I love the idea of spreading love. Actually bringing in alternative teaching to schools. Teaching young kids how to love, how to be generous, how to be gracious, how to be humble, how to be sensitive, how to be vulnerable. You're there [at school] . . . the majority of the transformative years of your life. I thought that if I could just touch — I just want to touch people. I want to change the way people feel about themselves because I have changed the way I've felt about myself. I haven't always felt this way, I just know that if I didn't have the tools, I don't know if I ever would have found it. I don't know if I ever would've been able to search for me, and be good to me. So teaching – and a lot of philanthropy I do now. There's a lot of things I want to do. I have a foundation with my siblings."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/ps-image-unavailable.png "On her family: \"My family. My family, they're just so driven and so motivated even after failure, after failure, there's no stopping them. They know success is just eventually gonna hit. As an actor, that is probably one of the greatest things they gave me because I hear 'No, No, No, No, No, No' and you're like, when is it going to give? And you think to yourself, if I just don't stop, it's going to crack. Eventually. The ceiling is going to break through and I'm going to come tumbling down and hopefully there is somebody there to catch me. They really gave me a heart of steel.\"
On her other life passions: \"To be honest, growing up I always wanted to be a teacher. I love the idea of spreading love. Actually bringing in alternative teaching to schools. Teaching young kids how to love, how to be generous, how to be gracious, how to be humble, how to be sensitive, how to be vulnerable. You're there [at school] . . . the majority of the transformative years of your life. I thought that if I could just touch — I just want to touch people. I want to change the way people feel about themselves because I have changed the way I've felt about myself. I haven't always felt this way, I just know that if I didn't have the tools, I don't know if I ever would have found it. I don't know if I ever would've been able to search for me, and be good to me. So teaching – and a lot of philanthropy I do now. There's a lot of things I want to do. I have a foundation with my siblings.\"")
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