Lifestyle Health Gina Rodriguez Gets Real on Body Image: 'Of Course I've Fallen into the Pressure' to Be a Size 2 The Jane the Virgin star is realistic about her body image By Julie Mazziotta Julie Mazziotta Twitter Julie Mazziotta is the Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to tennis to Simone Biles and Tom Brady. She was previously an Associate Editor for the Health vertical for six years, and prior to joining PEOPLE worked at Health Magazine. When not covering professional athletes, Julie spends her time as a (very) amateur athlete, training for marathons, long bike trips and hikes. People Editorial Guidelines Published on March 22, 2016 03:15 PM Share Tweet Pin Email Photo: Diane Bondareff/AP Gina Rodriguez is over feeling bad about her body. The refreshingly honest Jane the Virgin star says she used to feel like she had to fit into a size 2 to succeed in the industry, but she’s realistic now. “Of course I’ve fallen into the pressure! 100 percent I’ve fallen into the culture,” Rodriguez tells stylist and editor-in-chief of Yahoo Style, Joe Zee in an interview for the site. “If you look like a swimsuit model then you’re hot and everybody’s going to want you and money’s going to flow through, and everything’s going to be grand and dandy,” she says of the expectations. “And that’s bulls—.” Still, Rodriguez understands that there’s a standard for beauty in Hollywood – she just knows now that she doesn’t have to fit it. “You go to television and film, and, it does add 10 lbs., and, I don’t look like a skinny mini, and, the truth is, that’s okay too, and that is beautiful also,” she says. RELATED VIDEO: Gina Rodriguez Tells Ellen She Wants a Baby Really Badly That’s something that Rodriguez’s parents raised her to know. “[My dad] prepared us to be able to look at billboards and magazines and say, ‘This is not the only body type that is beautiful,’ ” Rodriguez previously told PEOPLE. “He would encourage us to find our beauty and love our beauty and accept our beauty as what God gave us.” “My parents really encouraged us to have confidence in who we are and accept who we are because it is not going to change and we are beautiful.”