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You married your husband who's playing with the Yankees.
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You're like on top of the world, like everything is perfect
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And um the doctor said, oh, well, we need to tell you that your
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son has CSIS and, and that was the worst moment of my life right
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Laura, let's, let's begin the way we do with everyone with
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your name and your nationality.
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My name is Laura Posada and I'm from San Juan, Puerto Rico and
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Laura, you were, you were raised in San Juan, I was raised in
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San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Uh from the time I was born until I was 17 years old.
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What can you tell me about your childhood in Puerto Rico?
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Take me back to that time.
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Um I think I had a good childhood.
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Uh my mom was a stay at home mom and my dad used to work all the
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Um I didn't have all the toys that I wanted and I didn't have
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all the things that I wanted.
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But um you know, I was happy uh when I got older and I was a teenager
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it was a little tougher because my dad was extremely strict
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and um if I wanted to participate in sports or any extracurricular
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activities or modeling, which I started doing when I was 14
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Um I had to have all a s in school.
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So it was very tough, especially because my sister who is five
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years older than me, um she was like a super, super intense
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student, like she had her grade point average was probably
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Um And you know, when it came time for me to come to, to her teachers
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they were expecting, you know, the same results from me.
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And I was like, oh my God, no pressure, you know, what a tough
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And my brother was really smart too.
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I have a brother, he's four years older and he was very smart
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My sister went to Harvard, my brother went to bu my sister is
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now a breast cancer surgeon and uh my brother is a biomedical
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So, you know, I had a lot to, to prove did that motivate you.
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Definitely, you know, I always wanted to, to succeed in life
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and growing up in my house, uh we used to play a lot of board games
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with my parents, especially my mom.
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And even though I was the youngest five years younger than
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everybody else, they wouldn't let me win like whatever I wanted
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I had to earn and, and I think it was good because they taught
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me that if you want something, you really have to work hard
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at it, like things are not just gonna be given to you.
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So I think, you know, from that and also from participating
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in so many sports, I was always um with the mentality that I
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wanted to win that I wanted to succeed.
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And I always knew that if I worked hard, I could do it.
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So, so that was always my mentality that was inculcated at
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a very, very early age.
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How did you, how did you, uh, get involved with modeling?
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How did that come about?
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Um, I always, uh, like to like dress up and do my hair and do my
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I would do my mom's hair, my sister's hair, um even though I
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was the youngest, like I was 12 and I did my sister's makeup
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for her senior prom.
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Like that tells you I just loved it.
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I was just obsessed with it.
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And, um, when I was 14, I told my mom that I wanted to model.
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So they took me to this agency in, in Puerto Rico.
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Uh, the name was Unica.
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They took me to the agency and when we walked in, uh, Riad Fernandez
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And, uh, she said, you know, you know, why are you here?
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What classes you want to do?
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What, what do you wanna do?
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And I said, I would like to model and she's like, ok, you know
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I said I'm 14 and she's like, oh, she looked at me because I'm
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only 53 and I've been 53 since I was 13 years old.
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So she looked at me and she's like, well, let's try something
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There's an audition today for a commercial for a Chile commercial
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you know, the chile, I am the gum.
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She said, I'm gonna send you to that audition and we'll see
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And I'm like, what, like you're gonna send me to the audition
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Like, I've never taken classes, you know, I've never done
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Like, you're just gonna send me and she's like, yeah, I wanna
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So she sent me to the audition and I got the commercial first
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time and from that day I never stopped working and you never
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You never, you'd never been in an audition.
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I acted a lot at my house.
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I mean, I thought, I, I mean, I would get in front of the mirror
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and I would like, put on my grandma's necklaces and use her
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purses and her heels.
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And I used to make my own soap soap operas when I had friends
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over, you know, to come play, we would do dances and, and I would
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do modeling shows and I did it all, you know, I practiced for
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it, but at home, home by yourself, Kev and the pressure didn't
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get to you to, to go on an audition for a real commercial with
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I mean, that's the first day out.
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You didn't feel the pressure.
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I always uh had this confidence, this sense of confidence
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Um I always knew um I would succeed.
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I believed in myself even, you know, being really young, like
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I was the one who would get in front of the classroom and, and
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say, I want the lead in the part of the Christmas show, you know
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they used to have always the Virgin Mary.
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I wanna be the Virgin Mary.
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You know, uh when it was the Halloween, I wanted to be the witch
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I don't know, I always enjoyed being in the spotlight.
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I felt comfortable there.
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I, I didn't feel intimidated by it.
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Listen, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm no psychologist, but it seems like
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you have wonderful parents.
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Normally that comes from a tremendous amount of security
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provided by the parents.
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Is that, is that, is that true in your case?
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Um My parents were just, I mean, they were really good parents
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but I also must say I had a, a caregiver from the time I was born
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until I was six years old.
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She was a Cuban lady and I think she made it the biggest impact
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Um She was the one who taught me um how to pray.
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She was the one who would take me to school every morning, we
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would just talk and talk and talk.
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She never had kids of her own.
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Um, she lost like three babies and I think in her heart, she
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saw me as her daughter and, you know, my parents were so my dad
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was always working, always, always working and my mom was
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You know, I had an older brother and an older sister.
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So I really bonded with her and the time that she dedicated
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to me was priceless and, and she made me believe I was wonder
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As a matter of fact, when I, from my, when I turned seven, that
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You know, I was wonder woman.
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And I really believed it.
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And, uh, my dad would always tell me, yes, you know, you look
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like her and, and I believed it and, and, and I wanted to be,
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you know, wonder woman, not necessarily, you know, to wear
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the costume and, and, you know, and fly, but, you know, I just
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wanted to do it all and, and, and I knew I could do it and my dad
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always told me, you know, and just seeing him, seeing his work
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ethic, I knew if I followed his path and I worked hard, I could
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And you've become wonder woman.
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It's been a process to become wonder woman.
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I don't think I'm wonder woman, but I think, but you are, but
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you are, you've done so much.
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Accomplished so much.
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Was that what you dreamt of when you were a little girl?
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How did you going back to that time, the life that you dreamt
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of what you wanted to be in order to be fulfilled?
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Does it look like anything like the life you lead today?
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Well, when I was little, I changed my mind a lot on what I wanted
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Sometimes, uh you know, I wanted to be a famous model or a famous
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actress or an amazing volleyball player or, you know, I just
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changed a lot depending on my age and what I was doing.
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So, you know, it was, it was always very interesting for my
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parents to see what I would come up with.
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And then, you know, when I got older and I started uh college
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I wanted to do acting and my dad was horrified.
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He's like, no, you know, what are you gonna do as an actress
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So, so he let me do acting as my minor.
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