“Close, genuine female relationships are not what generally gets depicted in movies and TV shows. Like, if you’re watching The Hills or 90210, all the backstabbing shapes the way we act – you go to school, and you think your job is to find a sworn enemy and be jealous of each other. I mean, I love Blake [Lively, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants]; she’s a wonderful friend of mine, but shows like Gossip Girl kind of condition us to be mean.”

-America Ferrera, on television shows depicting young women being mean to each other.

Lindsay Lohan and America Ferrera continue filming Ugly Betty in NYC.