Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria, who has made her face her fortune in recent years, has revealed she was teased about her appearance as a child.

The star, who has emerged as a red carpet darling with a string of lucrative deals with cosmetic companies, says her nickname growing up was "ugly duckling".

Eva Longoria, at the LA premiere of her new film Over My Dead Body, says she was bullied over her looks while growing up in Texas; The actress in a 1993 highschool photo

Longoria, who is in the midst of a promotional blitz for her new film Over My Dead Body, said: "I was the darkest one of my family. I was the only one with black hair and the only one with dark skin.

"All my sisters were light blondes with hazel eyes. They used to call me ugly duckling.