Even though Sofia Vergara’s expression on this Vanity Fair seems sort of worried/pensive, I still love this cover. She’s styled beautifully, her hair looks incredible, I love the way she’s positioned, and I like the simple fact that a 40-something Latina is the biggest thing on network TV these days and her Vanity Fair cover is utterly justified. This is the May issue. You can read VF’s excerpt here. Some highlights:

Getting with fiancé Joe Manganiello: “The day that I sent the press release [announcing the breakup with a different fiancé, Nick Loeb], Joe immediately contacted Jesse Tyler Ferguson like, Please, please, please tell her I want her number. And I’m like, Jesse, no, he’s too handsome. Then, after two days of Jesse trying to convince me, I’m like, O.K., give him my number. I’m thinking, I’m in New Orleans shooting, and he’s in L.A. Nothing’s going to happen. But we started talking a lot, and then he showed up in New Orleans. Since then we’ve been inseparable. There’s nothing about him I’d change other than the fact that he’s four years younger than me [he’s 38 to her 42].”

Working on her accent: “I hired the speech coach, and you have to work so much. It’s exhausting. It’s also boring. And I have a bad ear, you know? I’ve been in this country for 20-something years and I still sound like this . . . So I was going to auditions and the only thing I could focus on was the position of the tongue. I was not acting. And then I thought, If I can’t get a job with my accent, this is not a job for me.”

She knows what looks good & sticks to it: “Sometimes you read in the press like, oh, Sofía is wearing again the same shape dress, and I want to answer them and say, What the f–k do you want me to wear? Obviously there’s a reason why that’s what I go for.”

Whether her Modern Family character is a stereotype: “If Gloria is a stereotype, so what? Who wouldn’t want to be Gloria?”

Her boobs: “My boobs are, like, huge. My whole life, buying a bra was a nightmare. What I used to do when I moved to L.A., I found places like Frederick’s of Hollywood that make bras for [strippers]. Believe me, I wish I had fake boobs. I lay down and they completely go down like all the way, like here…It’s not fun.”

[From Vanity Fair]

That’s a cute story about Joe Manganiello trying to get to Sofia through Jesse Tyler Ferguson. I didn’t even know Joe and Jesse were friendly enough that Joe could get his bro to put him in contact. And I agree with her about her style – she knows what styles look good on her figure and she sticks to that. It sometimes means that she looks sort of uneventful on red carpets, but I don’t think any of us expect Cate Blanchett-esque avant-garde style from Sofia, do we?

Cover courtesy of Annie Leibovitz/Vanity Fair, additional photos by WENN.