The Colombian "Modern Family" star revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair how she got together with fiancé Joe Manganiello as well as how she hit what she calls "the jackpot." Here's what we learned about the "Hot Pursuit" actress:

It took a "Modern Family" co-star to meet her now-fiancé.

Manganiello was quick to act when she ended things with her former fiancé, businessman Nick Loeb-- as a matter of fact, he reached out on the same day she announced the breakup. "The day that I sent the press release, Joe immediately contacted Jesse Tyler Ferguson [Mitchell Pritchett on "Modern Family"], like, Please, please, tell her I want her number. And I'm like, Jesse, no, he's too handsome," she recalls.

"Then, after two days of Jesse trying to convince me, I'm like, O.K., give him my number. I'm thinking, I'm in New Orleans shooting, and he's in L.A. Nothing's going to happen. But we started talking a lot, and then he showed up in new Orleans."

Vergara called off her almost 2-year engagement with Loeb last May. After six months of dating, Manganiello popped the question on Christmas Eve.

"Since then we've been inseparable. There's nothing about him I'd change other than the fact that he's four years younger than me," Vergara said. 

She's hired a speech coach before to correct her accent.

The Emmy-nominated actress started off as a Univision game show host in the '90s, and has had several roles on the small and big screens, as well as Broadway since then. During this period, she tried to fix her accent, but found it was exhausting and boring.

"I've been in this country for 20-something years and I still sound like this... So I was going to auditions and the only thing I could focus on was the position of the tongue. I was not acting. And then I thought, If I can't get a job with my accent, this is not a job for me."

And she thought right. The 42-year-old beauty got her big break after playing Gloria Delgado-Pritchett on "Modern Family," a role which she calls close to her heart. "I'm a mother with a kid, I'm an immigrant in this country...I can show a little bit of my country to the States, to the world," she told USA Today. 

She has a message for her critics concerning both her fashion and acting.

Like any Hollywood star, she gets scrutinized for what she wears regularly and on the red carpet. But she brushes off the criticisms with a simple explanation. 

"Sometimes you read in the press like, oh, Sofía is wearing again the same shape dress, and I want to snwer them and say, What the fuck do you want me to wear? Obviously there's a reason why that's what I go for," Vergara said.

As for her role on the ABC family sitcom, labeled a stereotype by critics? "If Gloria is a stereotype, so what? Who wouldn't want to be Gloria?" Vergara said.

She became a businesswoman before becoming a mega star.

Even before becoming extremely famous, she started a Hispanic talent management company with her manager Luis Balaguer in the mid '90s when Univision had a hold on talent management. The company, called Latin World Entertainment (LatinWE), proved to be a challenge for both, but is now a mutlimillion dollar firm. "We camped out in the parking lot and sgined everyone who walked in and out the door," Balaguer said. 

"Univision didn't want to deal with us, but now they had to deal with us. LatinWE changed things. We paved the way for those younger. What [Charlie] Chaplin and [Douglas] Fairbanks did for general talent in the 20s or whenever, we did for the Spanish-speaking talent in the 90s. We were pioneers," Vergara's co-star on travel show "Fuera de Serie" explained.

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