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" When asked to describe herself in three words, Eva Longoria chooses silly, ambitious, and entertaining. She should have emphasized the ambitious part, given the tear she&amp;#039;s been on. Her hit show, Desperate Housewives, is in its third season and still going strong. She&amp;#039;s just opened a Tex-Mex restaurant in Los Angeles called De Nada. And she&amp;#039;s branched out to the big screen -- last year, she costarred with Kiefer Sutherland and Michael Douglas in The Sentinel, and later this year, she lends her voice to the animated flick Foodfight! Her personal life has been equally action-packed lately. In November, her boyfriend of nearly two years, San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker, popped the question, and they&amp;#039;re planning to wed in Paris, where Tony grew up, this summer. (It&amp;#039;s the second marriage for Eva, who was briefly hitched to soap actor Tyler Christopher.)  With lots to chat about, the feisty, friendly star sits down for tea with Cosmo at L.A.&amp;#039;s hip hotel Chateau Marmont, where the conversation runs the gamut from her fabulous wedding plans to her great sex secret. Cosmo: How did you end up in Jessica Simpson&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;A Public Affair&amp;quot; video? Eva Longoria: We&amp;#039;re all followers of Ken Paves, the hairstylist. Jessica calls us the Ken-ites -- me, Jessica, Carmen Electra, and Brittany Murphy. We hang out whenever we can. We&amp;#039;re tight girlfriends.   Is it tough to maintain male friendships when you&amp;#039;re in a relationship? No. I get so much crap for having friends like Jamie Foxx and Mario Lopez, who are like brothers to me. It&amp;#039;s difficult when you&amp;#039;re in an insecure relationship or if your partner doesn&amp;#039;t know where he stands with you. That&amp;#039;s not how it is with us. I don&amp;#039;t feel threatened by Tony&amp;#039;s female friends, and he doesn&amp;#039;t feel threatened by my male friends. Do you and Tony ever talk about trust? Trust is so organic for us. You&amp;#039;d think that because he&amp;#039;s an athlete and I&amp;#039;m an actress and because we have a long-distance relationship, it would be an issue, but it really isn&amp;#039;t at all. We are the priority in each other&amp;#039;s lives, so we would never do anything to jeopardize that trust in any way. How do you two stay close when you&amp;#039;re in Los Angeles and he&amp;#039;s in Texas? We e-mail, text, and iChat with Web cameras. It&amp;#039;s all about connecting. He always makes fun of me and says, &amp;quot;Yes, babe. I am connecting with you.&amp;quot; You&amp;#039;re 32 and Tony&amp;#039;s 24. What&amp;#039;s the biggest plus to being involved with a younger man? What&amp;#039;s not to love? His energy, for one! But I think the best part is his innocent outlook on love and relationships. He&amp;#039;s just more open to all the possibilities. I think women, for the most part, tend to be a little more guarded when it comes to relationships. What kinds of things do you and Tony like to do as a couple in your free time? We love to lie around and watch movies. We are both into fine dining. He&amp;#039;s European, so he likes to make it a four-hour experience with the cheeses and the wines. We love eating -- that&amp;#039;s our escape together. With all that eating you do, how do you manage to stay in such amazing shape? I have a personal trainer who comes over at least four times a week and kicks my butt. I get so sore that I can&amp;#039;t even walk. I do squats, lunges -- anything for my butt. My big concern is gravity taking its toll. As for food, I&amp;#039;m trying the vegan thing right now, but I fall off the wagon a lot. Yesterday, I had a steak. I try to do cleansings -- I&amp;#039;ll go months just eating vegetables and then have turkey or a filet mignon. How do you and Tony deal with conflict? We never go to bed angry, which sometimes frustrates Tony because he&amp;#039;ll be like &amp;quot;Please. I have a game tomorrow. I need sleep.&amp;quot; Another rule we have is that nobody is ever right. I don&amp;#039;t need to be right. I just want to be understood. The same goes for him.   Last September, you and Tony made a public statement about going through a difficult period as a couple. What happened? We were going through growing pains, and I was being honest about it. We had to figure out big relationship decisions, like where we would live and when wewould see each other. We never broke up though. Why was now the right time to get married? I never had a time line for my life. I didn&amp;#039;t say I wanted to be married at 28 and have three kids by the time I was 32. I do want to have a family at some point. I also want toadopt. I don&amp;#039;t feel pressure to have kids because I know that there are so many out there. How did Tony propose? It was more than I&amp;#039;d imagined. I was shocked too. It was like two in the morning. He got down on one knee. He was so nervous, which is what I find so surprising and sweet. I said, &amp;quot;Honey, you know how much I want to marry you!&amp;quot; What excites you most about getting married? My dress, my dress, my dress! I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It&amp;#039;s so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it. My friend Kenny [Chesney] is going to sing at my wedding. He just doesn&amp;#039;t know it yet. And I have always liked the idea of getting married in Paris because Tony was raised there. It will be big and formal with all the pomp and circumstance. If we had it in Texas, we&amp;#039;d be having a barbecue in the backyard. You&amp;#039;ve been very vocal about sex in the past. How did you become so comfortable with your sexuality? No one taught me. I&amp;#039;m confident as a woman. There&amp;#039;s no taboo about talking about your sexuality for a woman of my generation. I&amp;#039;ve always been an independent thinker. You&amp;#039;ve also talked about showing a man how to please you in bed. How do you do that? It shouldn&amp;#039;t be a big deal. You just ask. If you feel like you&amp;#039;re walking on eggshells about asking for what you want, then you&amp;#039;re with the wrong guy. I&amp;#039;ve never been afraid to tell Tony, &amp;quot;This is what I like. This is what I want. This is where I want it.&amp;quot; We have this thing called &amp;quot;Tell me now.&amp;quot; Just tell me now if that&amp;#039;s not working. It applies to things other than sex too! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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