Barbie star America Ferrera opens up about being seen as 'Hollywood's version of imperfect'

America Ferrera was recently seen in the films like Barbie and Dumb Money demonstrating that she has the range and more. Thinking back on some of her earlier roles, the actress discussed how her characters in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants and Ugly Betty were so focused on her body. After some recent introspection, she concluded that it was "ridiculous" that she was being called “imperfect.”

America Ferrera on unnecessary attention to her body 

In a conversation with ELLE magazine for their Women in Hollywood issue, America slammed the notion that her "curvier" figure was thought to be something "groundbreaking" in show business at the time.

"What's so insane is, you go back and look, and I had a very average-size body. And so the idea that people were looking at me and saying, 'That's curvy' is crazy. Not that I care, but it's like, that's insane that we thought that was so groundbreaking," she said. 

The actress added, “I was Hollywood's version of imperfect, which seems so ridiculous. I don't feel alone in that either. There are so many women who were called brave, just because they are people in bodies.”

America Ferrera wishes for a better future for actors 

The Barbie star went on to add that it is her "wish" for the future that actors will no longer be stereotyped and she will instead be looked at for more of who she is as a person rather than being "relegated" to being a stereotype. 

America said, “What I continue to wish for my career, and women's careers and people of colour's careers, is that we don't have to exist inside of these boxes or these lanes - that we don't have to be relegated to represent just the thing that the culture wants us to represent.”

"I want to be more of who I am as a person, and to get to make art that doesn't fit into any of the boxes and isn't about the dominant conversation people have wanted to have about me because I'm a woman who doesn't fit into stereotypical Hollywood," she concluded.