When award-winning Hollywood actress America Ferrera was growing up, she wanted to convert to Judaism and have a bat mitzva, but "not for very noble reasons," she says.
Growing up in the highly Jewish populated Los Angeles neighborhood of Woodland Hills, she explained that every boy she had a crush on at the time was Jewish. And according to what she had heard, Jewish boys only married Jewish girls.
Also, she wanted a bat mitzva. "Every time I went to a bar or bat mitzva I'd look for the pamphlets - 'Are you interested in converting?' But they're not around," she said.
The Ugly Betty star however found that the Jewish faith was not big on proselytizing. "I did not convert in the end. I married a non-Jew and it's working out," she said of her husband of four-years, Ryan Piers Williams.
