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Vergara teasingly blames her upbringing in Colombia for her keen aesthetics when it comes to her appearance. βI mean, even now in Latin America, girls, they want to be voluptuous,β she says. Raised by her housewife mom and businessman father, Vergara graduated from high school and attended dental school for two years before dropping out to pursue jobs in modeling and television. She cohosted a Spanish travel series and relocated to L.A., where she won smaller parts in TV and films before her breakthrough role on Modern Family in 2009. βIt was great to move to L.A. at thirtysomething and start a new career,β she says. βI never thought that I could be doing any acting, so that was a surprise.β