My name is Sophia Ayala Gettys! I'm a 29 year old mother of 2! I am an aspiring actress/artist/writer and CHEF! Okay so I'm officially tell you that I'm on Food Network's WORST COOKS IN AMERICA! I'm so excited to see what comes from this AMAZING opportunity!
WORST COOKS PREMIERS
JAN 3 2010 @ 10 PM EST
Click on the link below for teaser!
I want to cook! I want to get back in a kitchen with fresh proteins and veggies with bright beautiful colors and CREATE! It's been so LONG! that I have had to keep this all a secret and I can't believe it's almost here!I've been sitting in front of this computer for days working as hard as I can to promote myself and the show... who knows if that 1 person who could change my life will watch it and my dreams of success will become a reality!
I have always wanted to be an actress... well I've always loved performance. At about 5 I remember telling my Mom that I wanted to meet every person on this earth. My Mom said that I could never do that, because there are so many people in this world I would die before I would meet EVERY person... let along the millions of new people born everyday! I didn't care about why I couldn't, my mind started thinking of how I could make it happen.
My little mind was concocting a plan to get the media involved and make it happen! That's just the way I think... I always think BIG... I always draw big, sculpt big, I have a big personality and I am a big woman... That's just who I am, and who I always will be. I know I'll always be a PLUS SIZE DIVA, but I have started a new weight loss journey to be a healthier version of me. I enlisted the help of local Denver trainer Jamie Atlas and in the past 2 months I have lost almost 30 pounds with just DIET and EXERCISE! I would have never thought this would be possible with out surgery... but I'm doing it and there are no cuts or stitches needed! And if feels AMAZING! You can check out my Video Diary documenting my weight loss in youtube.com! Here's the link http://www.youtube.com/user/sophiagettys
I have always had this need to connect with people, anyone... I want to know them and for them to know me. I think that's why the arts are so interesting for me. In acting your showing emotion. You're connecting to a character and showing to the audience that you feel this emotion... and usually you're connecting to an emotion that you have felt. In drawing and painting and sculpting you can portray what you feel instead of writing words, and writing words is always another way... I like it too. But I never knew cooking could have the same effect.
Cooking is about all the senses! Taste, touch, smell, look, hearing! ALL OF THEM and it and you can tell your story with words in the menu, smells, colors, taste and presentation... and you don't have to be a professional for people to appreciate your work.... no gallery is needed... no stage. Just a hungry belly and bowl or plate. I never saw cooking as an art, but it's a more attainable art than I've ever known.
After learning all of this on Worst Cooks in America... I was on fire! I have prayed for God to lead me in the direction he wants me to go, and I got what I asked for, I just didn't realize it till recently... I had the opportunity to work with some of the best chefs in the world... and I have a relationship with a network that can combine both my passions... performance and cooking! I will have my own show one day... maybe not right away, but I am prepared to work as hard as I can for the rest of my life! It's cooking or acting... and with the success of either one I will sell my art:) It's a plan... not a realistic one but I'm putting it out there in to the universe:)
My Aunt Helen is one of my heroes... she was a self made millionaire and she did it by learning how to
make homemade pasta from scratch! She traveled all around Italy to perfect her recipe and started selling it from her home first... and eventually to grocery stores until she was so successful she opened her own restaurant and pasta factory! Helen was ambitious and passionate and beautiful... and I can only hope that I will be blessed with the same success. If she was here now, I would be at her house learning the tricks of the trade... but she passed a few years ago. And after her passing I became a stronger and more focused woman. I want to dedicate my successes to her memory.Thanks for reading!
XOXO
Sophia Ayala Gettys
