Eva Mendes apparently doesn’t think much of Jennifer Lopez as an actress and is not shy about letting the world know it. While she thinks Jennifer does a little of this and a little of that, Eva is busy concentrating on being the best actress around.Eva says that she actually cares about the craft of acting, while Jennifer is more concerned about the craft service. No, she didn’t say that, but she did say that Jennifer cares more for the money and perks that go with being an actress than the actual craft of acting itself.

“I would like to think I will have a more serious career than J.Lo. We may both be of Latin origin but that’s where the comparisons stop. She manages her career like the head of a big corporation, whereas the only thing I care about is becoming the best actress possible.”

Of course, Eva says this probably with a nice piece of hypocrisy in her mouth because, if I’m not mistaken hasn’t Eva been everywhere lately doing all that CK stuff? Not exactly about the profession of acting, but more trying to make a name for yourself and getting as much money in your hands as fast as possible. Plus, she could have made the photos less wild, but then the attendant publicity would not have been there. While I admit that Eva is a better actress than Jennifer, I would also admit that anyone who has memorized any lines to their favorite television show or film is a better actress than Jennifer.

And why all the animosity Eva? Why the harsh words? See, I think it is because she needs attention. You don’t have to say these kinds of things in an interview. You generally say them if you are just a very blunt person which Eva can be, but not always, or you are saying them for shock and attention which is the more likely scenario. Don’t worry Eva, Jennifer isn’t going to take that new role away that you both are up for. In fact, I don’t think it will be either of you, but that is just me. What the hell do I know?

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Eva Mendes has revealed she has had sex in all of America’s 50 states.

Appearing at New York’s Mercedes Benz Fashion Week to promote her new line of fine bedding for Macys, Mendes announced during the launch party for designer Patricia Field’s upcoming line of `Sex & The City’ inspired fashions that she had had sex in all 50 states.

“A lot of it was on a road trip I took when I was younger,” Mendes elaborated, tattling that the best sex took place in Arizona and Colorado. “Maybe it was the clear air or the quiet or the endless sky,” she noted. “Whatever it was, it was really, really good.”

The worst for Mendes? Alaska. “I’d really like a do-over on that state,” she said before suggesting publicists at Alaska Air “sponsor a trip for me there for that purpose.”

Eva Mendes @ Calvin Klein Spring 2009 fashion show (Front Row) during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week

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According to NY Daily News Eva Mendes is the baddest of ‘The Women’

Playing a man-eater vixen who destroys a marriage won’t do any good to your image, not even if you have the dazzling looks of Eva Mendes.

“I went to the premier and saw people’s responses to my character and they were horrified,” says Mendes of the comedy-drama “The Women,” opening nationwide tonight.

“If they had tomatoes, they would’ve been throwing them at the screen,” she jokes.

In the movie, a remake of George Cukor’s 1939 film by the same name, Mendes plays Crystal Allen, a sultry Saks department store perfume girl who’s the mistress of Mary Haines’ (Meg Ryan) husband.

Furthermore, her role, made famous in the original film by Joan Crawford, has ignited a debate over whether she plays a stereotypical spitfire Latin female.

“Oh God, I can’t [put] out that pressure on myself,” she says. “I can’t worry about representing Latin people the whole time.”

Mendes admits that she, as an individual, is representing Latin people, “But I certainly can’t make every decision based on that.”

In doing the movie, she adds, she actually showed that she can take on different kinds of roles.

“I think Latin people would be very proud because I play Crystal Allen and she didn’t change into Crystal Rodríguez,” she says. “I’m not bound only to playing the roles of Latin characters.”

Mendes’ co-stars in the movie include top Hollywood ladies Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith and Ryan.

“That’s happened,” she admits. “But I am not a vindictive person. And although people think I am fiery, in those kinds of situations, I actually become very, very methodical, and dangerously quiet.

“I get closer to you than I should,” she says.

But would she ever break up a marriage like her character?

“Are you crazy? I am just not that girl,” she says.

“I do have an attraction to men who are graying at the temples and whose last names are Clooney,” she adds playfully.

“He’s a friend by the way, it’s not anything.”

Eva Mendes At Screening of ‘The Women’ in New York City

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Eva Mendes is one happy camper, according to E! Online.

“I’m big on therapy,” Mendes told me yesterday. “I’ve always said I love talking about therapy, because there’s nothing wrong with it. Why wait until something goes terrible in your life to start fixing things?”

Mendes, 34, has never talked details about why she did a stint in rehab earlier this year, but she did tell me that one of her biggest issues was coping with her own success. “Up until recently, I was really uncomfortable with having success and enjoying it,” Mendes says. “I just couldn’t deal with that. How can I have so much? It’s not fair. How can the world have so little?…I allowed it to mess with me in the sense that I just didn’t know how to handle it.”

Things are different now. “I’ve really broken it down to this simple thing: I deal with everything by giving it away,” Mendes explains. “It’s genius. It works.”

She literally gives things away, like the new pair of Cartier sunglasses she insisted an elderly friend of hers keep when she tried them on. “I said, ‘You need to have them. They look really good on you,’ “ Mendes says.

Eva Mendes At The Women Premiere in Westwood

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So, are your proud of me? I managed to finally pull myself away from the Eva Mendes video just long enough to post something about Eva Mendes. Apparently she gave an interview to Parade. I’m still amazed that more stars don’t want to always give interviews to Parade, because honestly, I think that is the one portion of a Sunday paper that almost everyone in a family reads.

Anyway, in the interview she says that she does not want to get into the specifics of why she went to rehab because she doesn’t want her mom to get upset. She figures that if she doesn’t confirm or deny anything that somehow that will help her mom. She in turn also is encouraging bloggers and tabloids to speculate all we wants about why she went into rehab and that she doesn’t really care what we say.

“There are different stories about why I decided to get help for myself. People can speculate all they want. I’m not going to clear up the misconceptions. I have to think of the pain it might bring my mother.”

Well, as nice as it is to say that she went in to rehab because Xenu came to earth, tied her down, injected her with heroin and made her watch Days Of Thunder repeatedly it also seems like with what she is doing that she is probably causing her mom more pain than if she actually just spilled.

What is a mom to think when her own kid won’t say why she went to rehab and is so awful that it will crush her mother. To me that encourages worse speculation not only by us, but also her mom. Was it drugs, was it a pregnancy that went wrong? If it is your mother, what could possibly crush her? I doubt that getting addicted to Vicodin is really going to break her mom’s heart. Actually I think any of the prescription drugs are probably bad, but are not going to break the heart of mom. I think we can eliminate pot from the discussion also. Coke or heroin? That would probably break mom’s heart. Meth or crack? Eva was never that skinny so we can rule that out.

What about like doing drugs and the drugs caused you to have a miscarriage or something. That would necessitate a trip to rehab and it would probably break mom’s heart if you hadn’t told her you were pregnant.

See? This is why speculating and letting tabloids and bloggers license to do so. If I can come up with this, what is mom thinking?

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I mean, what words need be written in a post of this nature? The pictures say absolutely everything. Eva Mendes is in lingerie, your day really couldn’t be better.

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Eva looks so Hot, do I need to say more?

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Hollywood star Eva Mendes once carried a knife to protect herself from crazy fans after her nude scene in the 2001 hit movie training Day. The sexy actress admits she was “stupid” to keep the weapon, but insists it was part of her “controversial, Angelina Jolie” phase. She tells Interview magazine, “That was my controversial stage where I’d just started acting. I went through my little Angelina Jolie phase, like I was really tough. I had just come out in Training Day and I was nude in it, so I was getting a certain kind of attention.”And I did carry a little blade. My God, with obviously no intention to ever use it. I had Mace as well. But the blade sounded cooler in interviews. I was young and stupid.”

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Eva Mendes, who quietly admitted herself into treatment at the Cirque Lodge in Utah in January, admits that she’s still “sensitive on the subject” of substance abuse problems.

The actress snapped at a reporter for Interview magazine who joked that Alcoholics Anonymous would have to be changed to Alcoholics Unanimous because of the prevalence of problems in Hollywood.

“I’m not making jokes, because people die from this stuff,” she says in the interview, which hits newsstands next week. “So, honestly, I think it’s a bit tacky that you made a joke. I’ve got to be honest.”

Mendes, 34, had entered treatment for “personal issues,” her rep said, amid reports of drug use and body issues.

“There are so many lies out there regarding my recent trip to Cirque Lodge,” she says. “But I don’t care what people think. I just don’t care. So I will neither confirm nor deny.

“I’m not a spokesperson for any kind of substance-abuse organization,” she adds.

“I’m proud of people who have the determination and the fearlessness to actually go and face their demons and get better,” she says. “This is a life or death situation.”

Mendes also says being a Cuban-American actress has helped her career – but Hollywood executives are slow to realize that ethnic diversity is “the future” of America.

“We are the future,” she says. “I mean, we’re all just mixing together that much more. We are the future in that sense. I don’t mean Latinos, I just mean ethnic diversity.”

Though Mendes – who stars in the upcoming films The Women (September) and The Spirit (December) – thinks “being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge” because of “the lack of roles,” she says she is often passed over for roles.

“What makes it frustrating is when a director or a studio head doesn’t see me for the same part that they’ll see, let’s say, Drew Barrymore for,” Mendes says.

“Drew’s a great friend of mine,” Mendes adds. “But it’s like, ‘No, we want more of an American type of girl.’ And it’s like, American has opened up. I’m an American girl, born and raised.”

But Mendes doesn’t consider it a challenge and thinks it’s harder for Asian stars: “We have so many Asian girls in this country, and they’re so not represented up on the screen.”

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Beautiful Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes goes shopping at Barney’s New York and later goes to a small shopping complex yesterday in Beverly Hills, California. Eva came out walking and looking down. She did not want to be followed by the paparazzi and gave up pictures in exchange for not being followed. I don’t know why. She looks great in this summer outfit, everything matches and she is definitely a fashion winner !

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We Own The Night star Eva Mendes was surprised to have another run in with a pap while out running errands on Tuesday afternoon. Mendes asked for the photographer to stop taking pictures for a moment and allow her to explain her decision to wear a fanny pack. Mendes explained that the fanny pack is just so much easier to carry around than a purse. Mendes said, “I think this is the same fanny pack I had when my family went to Disney World back in 1989 and it still works. You buy one of those designer purses and it’s only in style for a few months. This fanny pack? It’ll never go out of style.”

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Popular actress Eva Mendes stopped for a moment during her Tuesday afternoon workout to ask if the paparazzo could stop taking her picture. Mendes said, “I understand that you’re trying to make a living, but you’re making it kind of uncomfortable to work out.” Mendes went into a lengthy diatribe about how much she enjoys working out, which segued into a story about how she never goes to the gym because she feels like she’s being judged by everyone. The photographer nodded at the end of Mendes’ speech. Then Mendes attempted to make a deal with the photographer. Mendes would gladly treat the photographer to a smoothie or provide him with the location of Lindsay Lohan if she was able to finish the rest of her workout in peace.

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Eva Mendes spotted At the gym with a friend and she shows her fine rear shot.
Okay, her friend said “it’s 8 for her fine butt”

Eva Mendes Candid Pictures - At The Gym

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Eva Mendes proudly showing her baby bump when leaving a gym in Hollywood to paparazzi. 4 months pregnant?

Eva Mendes and her baby bump leaving a gym in Hollywood

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