Rachel Zeglers latest victim act slights J. Lo, Eva Mendes and other Latina stars

Rachel Zegler has put her foot in her mouth again.In a new profile for Harper’s Bazaar UK, the 24-year-old “Snow White” star reveals the cold, hard truth about Latinas in Hollywood:They didn’t exist before her.Zegler, a New Jersey native whose maternal grandmother was from Colombia, essentially said she was a trailblazer for people with dark features.In a video interview accompanying her florals-heavy cover shoot, the actress was asked about her approach to beauty as a younger girl.And it sparked a hilariously ahistorical speech about representation in the entertainment business.Her approach “was a lot more shaped by what I was witnessing in big pieces of media,” she said.

“So it was who was on magazine covers, who was in the beauty commercials.Who was in movies.

Who was considered the most beautiful movie star at the time.”According to her, it was “definitely very Eurocentric” women — which resulted in isolation for the Gen Z gal.“Being a young Latina, that was hard because not a lot of people looked the way I did.” No one, she added, had bushy eyebrows or dark eyes like her.

However, do not underestimate the inner strength of a budding diva.“As I’ve grown up, I’ve really been able to find [representation] within myself,” she said.Friends, something tells me that Zegler — best known for her anti-Israel, “free Palestine” stance and her determination to make Snow White a feminist icon — has never looked outside of herself.Not even once.Because she would have noticed a little something about the celebrity solar system of her youth — it’s densely populated by a slew of wildly popular and successful Latina artists and actresses.Her bizarre version of recent pop culture history is a total stiff-arm to Bronx-born Puerto Rican Jennifer Lopez.

It slights Salma Hayek, Eva Longoria, Eva Mendes and Rosario Dawson.Jessica Alba, Shakira, Sofia Vergara.The list could go on, but Zegler would just take an eraser to it.All of th...

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