Sofia Vergara poses in tiny bikini alongside younger niece
There’s 20 years between them, but Sofia Vergara, 47, could be the twin sister of her twentysomething niece in this eyebrow-raising pic.
She got it from her … aunt.
Sofia Vergara had fans doing a double take with a photo of her and her 27-year-old niece Claudia Vergara in matching thong bikinis.
“Modelo viejo del 72 y modelo nuevo del 92,” the Modern Family star captioned the Instagram pic, which translates in English to “Old model of ’72 and new model of ’92.” The 47-year-old then added the hashtag #alwaystwinning.
Claudia, who is the daughter of Sofia’s late brother Rafael Vergara, is often compared to her famous aunt for their similar features.
“Soooo … which is which? Nobody can tell….,” one person commented. Another added, “Ambos parecen del 92,” which translates to, “Both look like they’re from 1992.”
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On Saturday, Sofia snapped another photo of her bum while enjoying a picnic with husband Joe Manganiello at their mansion during their quarantine.
In the post, followers again commented on her fit physique, including supermodel Heidi Klum, who shared a peach emoji and wrote, “WOW Sofia.”
In 2017, Sofia’s trainer, Jennifer Yates, told Marie Claire that she and the actress did “a lot of squats.”
VERGARA’S MASSIVE MODERN FAMILY FORTUNE
SHE’S been the highest-paid actress on television for years — but it was a long, slow rise to the top for Vergara.
During the final few seasons of her tenure on Modern Family, Vergara made around $50million per year.
In a 2018 interview with Health, she described her status as TV’s highest-paid woman as “very rewarding”,
“I’m 46 and I’ve been working for almost 30 years. So being able to do something that I love in the entertainment business, and on top of that being able to make money? It’s been a wonderful experience,” she said.
While she hardly seems old enough, Vergara has a son, Manolo, who turns 28 in September. She divorced his father when Manolo was two years old, and said she had for years juggled her career goals with life as a single mother.
“It has not been easy. It’s been a lot of work, but it makes you feel rewarded for all the sacrifices — like missing my son’s birthday here and there and not being able to be present all the time for him,” she said.
Her split from Manolo’s husband, her high school sweetheart Joe Gonzalez, was one of a slew of personal upheavals for Vergara. She moved to the US after her older brother Rafael was murdered in 1998 during a botched kidnapping attempt.
In recent years, she made headlines due to the bizarre actions of her ex boyfriend, socialite Nick Loeb, who has pursued her in court for the right to use embryos she froze while they were together to have a baby of his own. This, despite the fact Vergara subsequently married True Blood star Joe Manganiello, 41.
Vergara’s professional trajectory has been steadier. She made her first on-screen appearance at the age of 17, in a Pepsi commercial that screened in Latin America.
From there, she co-hosted two Spanish language TV shows in the late ’90s, before moving to Hollywood where a succession of small roles led her to finally land her big break in 2009, as the hilarious Gloria Delgado-Pritchett in top-rating sitcom Modern Family.
Along the way, she’s topped up her pay packet thanks to a healthy stream of product endorsements: Covergirl, Kmart and Pepsi among them. She cited confidence as the key to her success as a businesswoman.
“I think that it’s important to show that you’re confident — even when you don’t know what you’re doing, you know? The way you carry yourself is very important,” Vergara said. “There’s nothing worse than somebody who feels insecure, who talks like she’s not supposed to be there … You just take a deep breath and do your best.”
This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission