Cristela Alonso
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Podcast Appearances
So I took it upon myself to just record movies that I could get off the TV on my VCR.
Then when I got to high school and I started auditioning for college, they were like, oh, you can sing.
Well, you know, I wanted to do Broadway and then a voice teacher when I was 18 years old told me that as a Latina, I could do West Side Story and Chorus Line and then I was kind of done.
And it was weird because at that moment, I felt like somebody had said that my dream was limited and I had no chance to do it.
And I ended up doing some kind of theater, but I couldn't get auditions.
Then when I moved to L.A., they were like, well, you have a crooked tooth and you're plus size, so I don't know how that's going to work for you.
I'm like, wow, this is really great, you know?
Like, oh, sold, you know, so it became this thing where I was working as an assistant at a travel boutique.
My brother told me that she was on her deathbed and I had to come home, quit my job, went to Texas to see her.