Check out the April 2010 cover issue of Latina Magazine featuring T.V. personality Lala Vazquez. The 30 year-old sat down with the mag and spoke about her upcoming wedding, as well as her take on being Black & Puetro Rican. Check out some snippets below:
On People saying Carmelo will never marry her:
Lala: I know the story out there about me: ‘[Carmelo] ain’t gonna marry her. She got that ring but now he’s making her wait. He don’t really love her…’Carmelo: “I wasn’t making her wait, if anything, I was waiting for her to slow down. She was doing her own thing, handling her business and we were happy. When it was time to take it to the next step we did. Period.”
On being Black/Puerto Rican
She’s speaking of a first person piece she recently wrote for Latina.com on being Puerto Rican, in which she explained that, since childhood, people have often assumed that she is black. “Which I am!” she says, almost yelling. “But I am also 100 percent Puerto Rican and I’m proud of that. People got it twisted and thought I was saying, I’’m Puerto Rican. I’m not black. That isn’t what I was saying. It’s just that when I tell someone I’m Puerto Rican, I don’t want to hear someone say, ‘You ain’t Puerto Rican. You black.’ As if I can only be one or the other. Do I look like Jennifer Lopez? No. Clearly, I’m a black woman. However you want to define that, that’s what I am. And I’m also a Spanish-speaking Puerto Rican woman. Period.
Love LALA she looks great!
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Nice butt btw
Do women really think butts like that look good?…o_O
Nice photos!
To #3
Some women do and some women (like you) don’t, but most (black) men certainly DO. And if a woman was made like that, what’s it to YOU!? We were all made differently – DEAL WITH IT!
There you go again with your skinny toothpick woman obsession!
I DONT get it didnt lala said that she was just latina full Puerto Rican this girl is wack for now saying she half black now
#3
Are U a moron or u just refuse to grow up mentally?…o_O
Being black is a race, not a nationality last time I checked. So leave her alone. She is beautiful, didnt think she got all her ass and hips like that, nice body, all that for those skinny legz lol
You guys have to ignore commenter #3 she have some serious self image issues. Every post she makes concerns weight in some shape or fashion.
Whatever race your father is Lala ,that’s what you are according to the bible. She’s always making an issue about this, no one else does .geez .Monica was singing the same song about Rocko and marriage now look what happened. Celebs are always screaming they dont care what people have to say but stay addressing the non sense . That means YOU care.
She llooks beautifuL! Dont pay any of these haters no mind! You look GORGEouS!!!
The clothes are on point! I ve never seen LaLA look like this! good one..
OK wtf does she constantly feel the need to point out that she’s Puerto Rican/Black/ Latina? I’m like people are gonna put a lebel on you dead or alive. You don’t owe them no kind of explanation. If they want to continue throwin hate or labeling, let them do it! It shouldnt change who you are or what you do as a person. I really wish she would stop paying these people heed b/c they’re not worth constanty having to be talked about in her interviews.
Pls move on Lala. LOVE YOU GIRL!
lol they photoshopped that butt-her body has never been that nice
@ann she is full-pr and black as well. what about that don’t people get? the us school system has failed if people can’t even differentiate between race,nationality, and ethnicity.
race-black
nationality-pr or american
ethnicity-latina
duh!
Lala i beautiful.
*is
I know one thing…that AZZ and them HIPS are faker than a $3 dolla bill. Google her images and see for urself…..lmao Fake booty chics!
.mayb she got her butt done by Kim K’s people…cuz Lala ain’t NEVER been that
.fine
.do these people think we don’t notice booty just appearing out of nowhere after 20
.damn years?
.Onika Miraj game proper
I don’t understand how people in America cannot fathom that there are people of African background ALL OVER the world. America was not the only country that had African slaves! I’m from Australia & even I know that! Just because Lala is Puerto Rican does not mean she can not be of African heritage….stop being so ignorant…
@ Neon…
Unfortunately what you said is right. I’m not sure why its so difficult for folks to understand that you can be a black Hispanic. I can’t fault them though. I guess some people were never exposed to different cultures/ethnicities so they just don’t understand. But what kills me is when folks clearly don’t WANT to understand. They would rather be nasty, judgmental and hurtful.
Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He- is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at an age gap dating site- A_ge_m_in_gle @ c.o.m a nice and free place for Younger- Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to- interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends.
Neon, are you serious, why are you going so hard on LaLa,”she is photoshopped, look at previous pictures of her,’ wow you have alot time on your hands and hate in your heart. WOW
LALA shut the hell up your only black when its convienent one minute you say your half black the next your 100% latin bitch please
Blah,blah,blah… I’m a “Puerto Rican Woman”.
Who cares? She is not relevant enough for anyone to care about her nationality
La La is such a sweetheart and deserves to be happy with her family and friends. She is ambitious, strong and I respect her hustle. The cover is gorgeous and I hope that both Blacks and Puerto Ricans everywhere will accept the folks who are of both races and at the end of the day, just love being a people of color.
I can’t believe y’all haven’t caught on to That Slim Red Chick’s game yet lol. Ignore that chick. She wants attention.
Anyways, nice photos. There are black Puerto Ricans so I understand what she’s saying. It’s her nationality
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i bet in white people’s company she never even corrects them once they say something about a black person.when around Latinos she probably talks Spanish and makes a million references about PR and only around blacks she calls herself a black woman.
i cant believe she brought up Jennifer Lopez….you wish Lala!
Yes we get it you are a Black Hispanic and Eva Longoria is a white Hispanic and etc….. but if a racist white person see you walking down the street they may use the n word, I’m just saying
SMH. WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO? SMFH.
I LOVE LA LA! LOVE LA LA!
oh god, Lala please sit the hell down.
for your info eva longoria isnt a white spanish person
Most ‘white’ spanish people are from Spain or Argentina
Eva is mexican not latina lala is latina from being from puerto rico
shesh
IDIOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Lala is the blackest latina ever.
Actually Eva Longoria IS white. her ancestry is mostly from Spain. All Spanish speaking countries in North, South and Central America are that way because they were colonized by Spain, therefore all of those countries of populations with Spanish descended people, even Mexico. Eva has very little Native blood, she even did a DNA test recently and found that she is majority European.
LaLa definitely got her some booty implants!
Who cares!!! My boyfriend thinks the same with me. He- is eight years older than me, lol. We met online at an age gap dating site- A_ge_m_in_gle @ c.o.m a nice and free place for Younger- Women and Older Men, or Older Women and Younger Men, to- interact with each other. Maybe you wanna check out or- tell your friends.
lol! clearly she isn’t making a big issue about it is people who are harping on it and it. for starters Jessica Alba has the exact same issues with Latinity . she too once said that nobody queried about Diaz’s latinity , she was de facto a white girl, people ignore the fact that Diaz is technically a Latina and I am sure if they scan her DNA they will also find some native ancestry in her . but Jessica is being forced to pick a side .
Lala is having the same problem and it is black people who are after her lol! clearly Lala look mix race most black people are not . She ID herself as a black person her puerto-racianess is just a part of her core ID just like her blackness is.
people need to leave that girl the hell alone, she doesn’t have issues with black people she wouldn’t have had a baby with one.
She sounds racially confused like Tiger Woods, recently Scientists tested the blood of Puerto Ricans to find out how many have black blood in them and they discovered that just about all Puerto Ricans have black blood , because most of the African slaves were taken to latino countries and taught to speak spanish. Somebody needs to toss her a dictionary so that she can look up the meaning of the words race and language, because they are not the same. People ask her what race she is and she keeps saying that she speaks Spanish so shes Latino.. But Speaking spanish has nothing to do with what race you are, because Latinos are not a racial group, they are a language group. Her race is black , her language is spanish , they are two entirely different things.
If LaLa speaks Spanish, eat latin food, practice latin culture everything about her is Latin..I dont care if she is purple she would be latino!!…I think Americans get so caught up in skin color that if you dont look a “certain” way than you are not it. Like people were previously saying their are people of african descent everywhere around the world….but that does not take away from where they call home such as latin America,Europe,China or even America!!!!
African Americans have more in common with White Americans than they have with Native Africans…its not about the skin color..and for those who say well White folks will call u a nigger and treat LaLa like a black person..thats why you have to create your own identity..some white folks think Blacks are ugly monkey but that does not mean Blacks have to live up to stereotypes.
Race is a made up social construct to control people…racism isn’t about race but can be any type of discrimination against people to separate.
Lala look so fake with that stupid azz pad on. She obviously is trying to immulate Kim K.
Funny how she had noazz@all disease on mtv and now she looks deformed.
She looked so much better before natural without all the hair and butt and hip pads.
Instead of buying a butt she should do some squats for them ugly skinny legs.
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I don’t understand why some people are wasting their time and energy worrying about her race and nationality. If I was in her situation I would probably get tired of the bullshit too….bad enough this is something that she had to deal with since she was young, people trying to characterized who you are….I totally understand where she’s coming from and I’m black myself
And sometimes it always have to be black people. Anyway…….
Leave home-girl alone. That’s her business and she happy doing her thing. We have more important things to worry about, like this economy and etc.
LaLa looks beautiful and people need to stop hating, if you don’t have anything positive or productive to say then, on to the next one
She doesn’t look racially mixed to me. She wears colored contacts and a straight weave and her skin is brown not yellow. Her facial characteristics are that those of a biracial person either. She is a Puerto Rican and they come in all colors. I don’t think a white person would say anything racist about black people in her presence because to a white person she looks black. She needs to stop bringing up the issue all the time because in the real world people will determine who and what she is, at least in America they will, by what you look like and your color. Lala doesn’t know the difference between race, culture and ethnicity it seems.
Lala looks fab-u-lous!!! Work it girl!!!
The majority of black Americans are genetically racially different than Africans . American blacks are admixture of african, european, american indian, asian or pacific island ancestry , thus our negroid bloodline has been diluted in recent centuries. That we cannot be 100% african, even the darkest black person maynot have that much african blood. And for the record, there are blacks ithat are native to Australia, Pacific Islands, and yes there are and were African native tribes of the United States, there are also native africans living in Asia today that has been their for thousands of years. Race is a social construct that people use to disciminate against one another, it’s about time we move on.
She’s a black latina…case closed!! DANG!!
#40 – Jay…..I really wish you would not have but I am going to give you a pass for ignorance today. She is a black latina…get over yourself.
In regards to Lala, I wish her the best of luck!
Seems like a lot of people are still misunderstanding what Lala is saying. A lot of people can’t seem to understand that Latino is NOT a race. I repeat LATINO is NOT a RACE! They don’t understand that it is only an ethnicity and it doesn’t determine your racial origin. A person can NOT be “half Black and half Latino.” However, they can be a Black Latino. Black being their race and Latino being their ethnicity. Just like you can NOT be half Black and half American. You can be a Black American or an African American. You can also be an African Latino (Afro-Latino). The term LATINO confuses people with no knowledge of the history of slavery.
one drop baby; w/ other races in the mix . but the white folks [wasp] still consider you black. deal w/ it…….. don’t jump tiger on us. or i’ll call ELIN to come whip your azz w/ a golf club.
i cannot stand this booty pad wearing whore. she need to sit her cradle robbing ass down somewhere
oh yea let me school you colored folks AND ALL YOU OTHER COLOR CONFUSED humans. the hispanic DNA i was told originated from the west indies w/ the blood strain from MANDINGO……… mixed w/ a european mixture . and then the mexican went on to say in the diversity training day class. …….. [period] i bout fell out my seat when he said . ” us mexicans; we consider ourselves cacuasian”….. i thought and knew the fact that once we were kings ——– I AM A BLACK MAN —- ie ANWAR SADAT SAID ON 60 mins……. THE KING OF EGYPT said it in the 1970′s on that cbs show before he was asassinated literally weeks after the statement. IAM A BLACK MAN.
@KN actually MANY black americans have native american or white ancestry. lala might have more mixture in her just b/c the spanish mixed with slaves more
She’s a Latina? I guess Vazquez is a latin name. LOL
Her shape is whack! She is skinny up top, wide as hell like Oprah around the hips, and don’t get me started with those toothpicks for legs. Oh and did anyone but me notice those stubby ass fingers!
why is she wearing those stupid looking azz pads giving her a retarted shape. With them ugly little legs. How you gonna bust out with all this hips and fake azz 5 years later. Women have gone mad. They have madazz disease.
Why does this chick always look she’s bored to death with life? Forget all the “she’s latino…she’s black” crap. She always looks and acts like being alive is something she doesn’t enjoy that much.
She’s a beautiful woman……maybe she doesn’t get told that too often. Maybe that’s it????