Race Issue Mean Eva Longoria Can't Send Gran Parkers Photo

19-03-2006 19:31

Eva Longoria Reminded Of Race ProblemsEva Longoria's mother gave the Desperate Housewives star a sober reminder of her inter-racial romance with basketballer Tony Parker - by insisting she didn't send her grandmother a picture of her lover.Longoria tells the new issue of Allure magazine that she was planning to post her grandmother a San Antonio Spurs calendar, so she could see what her boyfriend looked like - but her mother reminded her that not everyone approves of the fact she's dating a bi-racial man. Longoria recalls, "She said, 'You can't give grandma a calendar. She doesn't know Tony's black.' I said, 'We'll just tell her he's French.'"