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Article: Eva wants you! After a string of sexy roles in movies for dudes, Eva Mendes is tapping her inner girl's girl.(Interview)(Cover story)
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- Marie Claire
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Every time I mention the name Eva Mendes to another guy, he gets this stupid grin on his face while, no doubt, fantasizing: Eva Mendes mowing his lawn. Eva Mendes juicing kale in his kitchen. But when I mention Eva's name to a woman, the response is almost a nonresponse. "Oh," the woman will invariably say, "she's ... really pretty." Coming from a woman, this is not necessarily a compliment, which isn't to say it's not a fact. At 33, Eva Mendes is uniquely pretty, Revlon-commercial pretty, the-new-face-of-Calvin-Klein-underwear pretty--but, as a matter of conversational reflex, one woman calling another woman "really pretty," and only that, is also a way of outright ...