Sofia Vergara on Having Kids: ‘I’m Really Borderline at My Age to Do It’

Wedding belle! With the planning for Sofia Vergara‘s wedding to Joe Manganiello well underway, the actress is thinking wedding gowns and cake — but she’s also thinking seriously about their life together too, as she shares in the October issue of InStyle.

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She’s talked about having kids before, but she gets very candid about her plans in the issue. “I’m really borderline at my age to do it. And if I’m going to do it, I would need a surrogate,” she says. “I’ll need help. But I don’t mind it; it’s fine.”

And if it takes a little work, she knows she’s got a good man in Mangianello to stand by her side. “He’s not like a typical handsome guy. He’s not vain. He’s very serious, very straightforward, very easy,” she tells the magazine. “Also, he doesn’t drink. So that’s great because he doesn’t like to go out partying. And he can sit around a dinner table for hours with my family. He talks s— and drinks Colombian coffee.”

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But if you had told her that before they started dating (when he famously publicly asked her out), she wouldn’t have believed you. “I didn’t want to go out with him for a long time because I thought he was too good looking. Like, it’s too much work, and I’m older. I’m 43 years old. I don’t want to deal with a guy that every girl is after, you know?”

Now things are blissful, and she’s about to walk down the aisle to him — and odds are good she’ll be in a strapless mermaid dress. Hold your comments, though: “Sometimes people tweet, ‘Why is she always in the same kind of mermaid dresses?’” she says. “Well, it’s because that’s what looks good on me. It holds my boobs. There are many dresses that are spectacular on a model, but I can’t pull them off. I wear what’s right for me.”

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