(upbeat music)
- I love this.
- Thanks, I almost tripped but it's okay.
- No, you're whole..
I didn't notice. - Thank you, thank you.
- I love the tone on tone. - Appreciate it.
- Like, that's so cool. - Yeah.
- How are you?
- I'm good, how are you?
- I'm so good.
So wait, you grew up in LA, right?
- Yes, I did.
- Nobody generally grows up here.
We're all from somewhere else.
Do you find many like you?
- Not in the industry.
- [Kelly] That's what I mean.
- Yeah, people in the industry aren't usually from LA
but I was like, you know what?
People walk around pregnant all the time, we exist.
(laughs amusingly)
- They walk around pregnant all the time.
I love you so much, we're here.
- And even though I grew up here, I mean
I'm first-generation Mexican, Hungarian and American.
So it's like I grew up somewhere else
my first few years of life.
- [Kelly] Oh, wow.
- Because I only spoke
oh well, they only spoke Spanish at home.
Only had Mexican food at home.
Only Spanish television at home
and so you're used to just one language
and one form of living.
And then one day my parents has dropped me off at school
and I'm be like, "see you later."
And they're speaking a whole other language.
- Was that terrifying?
- I just was not...
Was so confused at what was going on.
My mom said I had an attitude.
I was like, "you didn't explain to me what school was".
- Well, and on top of the fact
that they'd all be speaking a different language.
- Yeah, and thankfully like the first few years
all my teachers were Hispanic.
So I got away with it until first grade
my teacher was Caucasian and I was failing English.
- [Kelly] Oh my gosh.
- The reason welfare.
There's a solid reason for this, that's hard.
But people don't think about that.
That's a really hard thing
because it's not your native tongue
that you learn as a child when you're very young.
- Yeah.
So I learned that six years old
with hooked on phonics.
- [Kelly] Oh my God.
- I'm a success story.
- I am a success, that's amazing.
That's really cool.
Nobody thinks about that when you're the first generation
that you have that.
Anyway, there was a word though
that your mom was not prepared for you to ask.
And I love this story 'cause you started...
You asked her about a certain word when you were younger
and she didn't take it super well.
- No, she didn't take it well.
Again, my parents didn't teach me about English
or American culture.
And because of school, I started watching American movies
and television, one being Hocus Pocus and clueless.
- [Kelly] Great.
- And the word "virgin" was thrown around a lot.
And I didn't know what that meant.
So I went to my mom's room.
She's ironing, and I was like, "mom, what's a virgin?"
And this all took place in Spanish.
And he looks up at me
and she goes, "where did you hear that word?"
I'm like "on the movie".
And she goes
"oh, well a virgin is when you're a miss."
When you're not a virgin, you're a missus.
I was like, "okay so am I a virgin?"
She goes, "yes you are not married, you are a miss."
- You better be a virgin.
- And I'm like nine years old at this point.
So I was like, "are you a Virgin?"
She goes, "I'm married so no I'm not, I'm a missus."
I was like, "okay."
That was it.
- That was your talk?
- That was my birds and bees talk.
- Should have went the school bus.
- What?
- [Kelly] I learned at all there.
- Well, I did later on
but you know I get so excited
when I learn new information
that I started walking around at nine years old being like
"Hi, I'm Fancy, I'm a virgin."
(laughs loudly)
That happened.
Until someone at school told me
and I was like, "what?"
- Maybe you shouldn't introduce yourself.
That is amazing!
- Yeah.
(indistinct)
- That would be amazing, oh my God!
I love that your mom stopped there
and was like, "you're on your own."
Well, your new show.
How I Met Your Father.
You work with Hilary Duff.
So y'all ever met before?
(laughs lightly)
- Well, speaking of learning new things
and being excited about it.
A friend of mine had just had a baby about 10 years ago.
And I was hanging out with Haylie Duff.
She had guest starred on
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
when I was on it.
So she invited me to hang out with her
and she had to get something from her mom's house
while Hilary was there.
And she was pregnant with her first child
and she was about to pop.
But like I said, my friend had just had a baby
and I learned what a mucus plug was.
And so the first one you get.
- What's a mucus plug?
I've had babies.
- Girl, you've had babies
and you don't know what a mucus plug is?
- No.
Apparently when you pee it comes out
and it's like the signs that you're about to go.
- [Kelly] I had C-sections.
- Oh, okay.
- That sounds disgusting.
- Well, I did
and that's the first thing I asked Hillary like
"hi, nice to meet you, did your mucus plug fall out yet?
- No, you didn't.
- I was so excited to learn something new
and I didn't under, I was so nervous.
It was Hilary Duff!
- Oh my God, love you so much!
You're kind of like me.
it just comes out.
Information comes out and you're like
"Why did I say that?"
- Yeah, pretty much.
And I just, you know, I was like
"I'm just going to keep going."
and she laughed.
And she was like
"No, thank you for asking."
- So wait, a mucus?
Thank you for asking, she's polite.
(laughs loudly)
- Well I mean, we talked about it.
She was 24, so she was like
"I was just excited that someone my age knew what that was."
- Is that what plugs the baby up in there?
Like when it comes out, it's ready time.
- Yeah it's ready time, you're close.
- See, I've had two babies, did not know.
You just taught me something, thank you.
- You're welcome.
(indistinct)
- You're an educator.
- And I've never had a kid!
- And I didn't learn that on the school bus.
So the show is a take on
"How I Met Your Mother", right?
- Yes.
- Okay, so who do you play?
- Well, it's a take on it
but I feel like it's
its own original show, I mean.
You know, there's a surprise
in the first episode at the end.
And I feel like it has
the spirit of the original
while still feeling original.
People have compared me to Barney a bit.
But I think all of our characters
are very, very different from the original cast.
This is a female's version
of her dating life in New York
in her early thirties, late twenties.
And I'm her best friend
who's just like, larger than life.
Wants a good time.
Don't set a boundary on my good time
because you will meet me.
- I love that though.