Eva named Maxim’s Woman of the Year
Eva Longoria has been named Maxim’s Woman of the Year.
The 38-year-old former Desperate Housewives star – who topped the magazine’s Hot 100 two years running back in 2005 and 2006 – told the magazine that the honour is "especially awesome after how long it’s been since my first cover.
"I’ve had a beautiful relationship with Maxim over all these years," she added.
Longoria also revealed that she had to postpone her interview with the magazine in order to present her Masters thesis in Chicano Theory, which she earned from California State University last year. The title of her thesis? "Success STEMS From Diversity: The Value of Latinas in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Careers."
"I was like, ‘My brain can’t jump that fast from a Maxim interview to a thesis’!"
She added: "Back in high school I really was the chameleon, too. I got along with the honors math club, then I would go to cheerleading practice, and then I was a band geek as well."
Longoria smoulders on the cover of the magazine in an image shot by Randall Slavin, but she revealed that people are "usually surprised" about how "domestic" she is.
"One thing people are usually surprised about when they get to know me is how domestic I am," she continued. "So when you see the sexy Maxim cover and then you put it against me in an apron with flour in my hair, it takes a moment to reconcile that image," she joked.
Along with her acting, modelling and academic work, Longoria is also a noted political advocate – who won praise from the New York Times for her role in Barack Obama’s re-election campaign – and philanthropist.
