Eva Longoria wore 40$ dress to Cannes!

The actress does not hide that, when she was first invited to Cannes, she was not aware of how important the event was. However, her talent ensured her almost overnight success and the title of the sexiest woman on the planet.

Actress Eva Longoria is currently in Cannes, where the 75th International Film Festival is being held, and although it has just begun - it is clear that she will be one of the best-dressed women on the red carpet this year. We have already seen Eva several times in Cannes in chic clothing variants, both on the most glamorous occasions of the premiers and in casual moments of relaxation. Today, she poses in expensive dresses and the most luxurious clothes, but when she was a guest at the Cannes Festival for the first time, it was completely different.

The star of the series "Desperate Housewives" walked the Croisette for the first time in 2005, and then her choice was a 40-dollar dress! As Eva Longoria recently pointed out in an interview with People, when she was first invited to the festival as a rising television star, it was not clear to her where she was going. Moreover, Eva admitted that she had no idea what Cannes was.

The beautiful actress of Latin American origin, therefore, prepared a dress for the red carpet, which she bought in the famous Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles, at a very reasonable price. “I thought: I'm going to wear this, this knitted gold, it looks fine" - Eva recalled. “Nobody could have known it was a $ 40 dress.”

The actress opted for a very elegant dress with thin straps that reveals her bare back. The attractive maxi model was clinging to her slender figure, and there was barely noticeable lace under the hem.

The simple, but quite sexy and elegant creation attracted a lot of attention, even more than the expensive dresses of Eva's older, more famous, and more experienced colleagues on the red carpet. Moreover, everyone wanted to know who designed her dress, and she did not reveal the secret. Journalists, colleagues, and associates asked her whose dress she was wearing, and she jokingly replied: "What do you mean? It's mine!"

When she looks back on that moment today, Eva proudly points out that the impression was left by her, not the dress, because she radiated self-confidence. “It's not about the dress, it's about the woman wearing the dress," the actress said.

And that is definitely the case - in those days Eva Longoria was one of the most promising American actresses and she won with her gift for acting in "Desperate Housewives", as well as her first film roles, but also with her beauty. Just after the mentioned walk on the red carpet in Cannes, Eva was proclaimed the sexiest woman of the year, and then she received this flattering recognition the following year, in 2006.