She plays a man-eating vixen on screen. And off it Eva Longoria Parker loves to play up to her sassy Desperate Housewives image. But other than a penchant for muscular playboys - and her accidental groping of co-star Teri Hatcher's breast when she tripped during filming this week - in real life Eva couldn't be further removed from her feisty TV alter ego.
The petite actress has been married to French basketball star Tony Parker for three years. And they are still hopelessly devoted to one another.
"I love being married to Tony," she gushes. "He and I get through things with a lot of laughter and a lot of the same goals and values in life - and it doesn't hurt that he's also the cliché of tall, dark and handsome. I think I'll keep him."
Eva is surprisingly grounded for a Hollywood A-lister. We meet in a five-star Beverly Hills hotel but afterwards she is heading straight to the supermarket for eggs and potatoes.
"Tony's coming home tonight after a fortnight working in Paris," she says. "And he wants my tortilla soup, so I guess he's been missing those Mexican spices."
Tony, at 28 seven years Eva's junior, shuttles back and forth between the US and France, where he plays for the national team.
He is away for weeks at a time. "I just try to do the best I can to fly to meet him wherever he is," Eva says. "We never go longer than two weeks without seeing each other. I once flew to Switzerland just to have dinner with him."
But doesn't she worry about other women when her husband is away? "We've just never discussed it,' she says matter-of-factly. "It's just been understood from the beginning that we trust each other.
"What can I say ? Infidelity sucks! At least, I suppose it does, as I've been lucky enough never to have experienced it."
She also relies on best pal Victoria Beckham for advice. "Victoria's a lovely woman," she says. "Both our husbands are sports stars and they both travel , and Victoria's had some great advice for me on how to cope with that.
"She's a great mother, too. If you ever see her around her kids, you'll see that everything - everything - is about them and David. She's a good role model. I really want my marriage to be like hers."
Unlike the Beckhams, the couple do not have children. But Eva is hopeful. "I know I'm not getting any younger but Tony's still young," she says. "But we want to wait until the time's right."
Eva is nothing if not busy. She's studying for a master's degree in political science and owns Tex-Mex restaurants in LA and Las Vegas. "I take cooking very seriously and I'm a businesswoman as well, so it's a merging of both of my passions," she says.
"I'm at the restaurant in LA all the time. I'll go up to different tables and taste their food. People are always saying, 'Can you please not eat my soup'?" And Desperate Housewives still pulls in 120million viewers worldwide. The seventh series starts here next month.
"I love the show," she says. "It's got everything - my gosh, marriage, divorce, kids, dating, being single, being not-single, friendship, age, womanhood - all the things we women talk about."
Source : Mirror
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