Eva Longoria is a real-life Desperate Housewife who flies thousands of miles a week to see her husband, she has revealed. The star says she commutes about three times a week from her job in Los Angeles to San Antonio, Texas where husband Tony Parker, plays basketball for the San Antonio Spurs.
The Desperate Housewives actress - who now goes by the name Eva Longoria Parker - says she loves married life so much that she is willing to clock up thousands of miles each week.
She says: "Some people commute to work in a car. I commute by plane about three times a week.
"Even if I have one day off, I'm in Texas. We're so excited to be married. I'm like: 'Hi, husband', and he's like: 'Hi, wife'.
"There's a sense of: 'Wow, our lives are going on to the next step'."
Longoria Parker, 32, married the basketball player in a romantic wedding in Paris last year.
In an interview with US magazine Self, she reveals that - although her career is riding high - she will not wait until 2011 when her Desperate Housewives contract ends, to have children.
Longoria Parker says: "Tony and I want healthy children, as many as we can have - three, four, five. "We think about adopting too.
"We'll wait a year and see. I want to work as much as I can now and pay my dues so later I can focus on my family and enjoy the fruits of my labour."
The actress, who is on the cover of the February issue of Self, also reveals how she met Parker, 25.
In November 2004 she took her father to a San Antonio Spurs basketball game. "My dad wanted to meet the players," she says. "I'd just come back from Paris, so when I met Tony, who's from France, I said: 'Bonjour. Je m'appelle Eva'.
"He spoke back in French. I didn't understand but I was smitten."
Two days later the couple had their first date at IHOP - International House of Pancakes, a US pancake chain, not a fancy celebrity-filled restaurant.
"Our first date was at IHOP," Longoria Parker says. "It was funny; I'd never heard of Tony. He had no idea who I was, either."
The actress, whose latest film is called Over Her Dead Body, also talks about her childhood and early career.
The youngest of four girls, the Texan says: "One time I lit the ranch on fire. My sisters never let me forget it. "It was a little fireonly an acre.
"We play with fireworks at Christmas and one year - OK, only a few years ago - one of mine set a big bush on fire.
"We had to do a water-bucket line to put it out, like in Little House on the Prairie."
Longoria Parker first found success as a beauty queen in her hometown of Corpus Christi, Texas.
But she dispels all rumours that beauty pageants are for airheads. The actress says she entered to help pay her way through university.
She says: "I'd show up at rehearsal sweaty from track or gymnastics, and everyone would be dressed to the nines.
"And I just wanted to get Most Photogenic so I could get a free hamburger. I was motivated by money for school.
"We had etiquette class and I learned interviewing skills, which I've used to this day."
Longoria Parker was named Miss Corpus Christi USA when she was in her early 20s. Part of her prize was a trip to LA to compete in a modelling and talent competition.
It was the turning point in her life and the future Desperate Housewives star shelved her exercise science masters degree.
She says: "I was about to start grad school, but I called my mum from LA and asked her to send my stuff to Hollywood, rather than to school.
"She was like: 'What?' And I said: 'I'm going to be an actress'."
Before she won her first breakthrough TV role on US daytime soap, The Young and the Restless, Longoria Parker was used to missing out on acting jobs.
She says: "When I was auditioning, all I got was rejection after rejection. But I kept thinking I can wait for my role to come along."
In 2004 the actress landed a part in new US TV series Desperate Housewives.
Despite being a newlywed thrilled to spend every free moment with her husband, Longoria Parker doesn't live alone in LA.
When she can't be at home with her man in Texas she is in Hollywood sharing a house with two close friends.
"I have what I call a sorority house in Hollywood because I don't like to be by myself," she says. "You need a support group, people around you to lift you up.
"I'm so blessed I have the best sisters in the world who do that - and not just my real sisters, but also sisters of my heart."
When she's not acting or plane hopping, Longoria Parker is working-out to maintain her enviable figure. "I'm constantly working on my butt," she says, "because, you knowgravity."
She says that squats performed on VersaDiscs, air-filled circles, are her favourite butt tightening exercises. "It works your entire leg," she says. "When I do them, my butt beefs up and I fill out my jeans better."
But Longoria Parker says that she is not a willing athlete. "I love my trainer, Patrick Murphy," she says, "but I hope every day that he cancels - that he gets stuck in traffic and doesn't come.
"But I get really skinny when I don't work out.
"When I do, I think: 'I worked out today. I can do anything'."
Longoria Parker's demanding days begin so early that she not only has one breakfast but several, starting with a round of egg whites and spinach.
"I eat a lot of breakfasts because I'm at work so early," she says. After a snack of yoghurt and granola she has cereal.
Longoria Parker, who opens her new restaurant Beso in LA later this year, says: "I'm a Texan and a big red-meat eater.
We grew our own veggies - which taught me how good organic food is. I hated vegetables when I was little, now I'm like: 'Ooh, artichokes'."
Her life is rounded out with charity work; she is the spokeswoman for Padres Contra El Cancer, a charity that assists families of Latino kids with cancer and Eva's Heroes, which funds programmes for special-needs children.
"It's amazing how you feel when you help people," the Desperate Housewife says. "Joy has an actual texture. You can feel it."
By Owen Williams, Jan 15 2008 © Copyright 2008 - Showbiz Spy
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