Q 6

PLAYBOY: What's it like to be a favorite target of the paparazzi?

Eva Longoria: It's like being in a fishbowl. The fish aren't doing anything but swimming along in their own merry way, yet people can't help but watch. If Brad and Angelina are in town, that's lucky for all of us because then there's a diversion, like the day Britney Spears had her baby. That was also a good day for me. Earlier this year something fell on the Desperate Housewives set and I got a concussion, but I never lost consciousness and was home from the hospital within an hour. By the time I got home there must have been 40 paparazzi outside my house. My girlfriends came over to take care of me, and while we were watching Oprah, the show was interrupted by "Breaking news: Eva Longoria almost fatally injured."

Q 7

PLAYBOY: Have you gotten used to all the attention?

Eva Longoria: I'll be at a basketball game, scarfing down nachos and hot dogs, and of course there will be all these photos of me with my mouth wide open and a nacho halfway in. It's all very weird. I think if I ever get used to that stuff, something's not right with me.

Q 8

PLAYBOY: At what point do guys' stares turn into leers?

Eva Longoria: I don't think a guy seriously noticed me until late in high school, so I never noticed men staring at me in the past, much less now. When my closest friends go, "That guy just won't stop looking at you," I'm always like, "What guy? Does he know me?" And they'll say, "Duh, yeah, he knows you." I always forget I'm on a TV show. I was shooting something at a studio, and when we pulled up, all these photographers were waiting outside. I said to my friends, "Oh my God, you guys, who's here?" And they said, "You are." And I said, "Oh, I thought a big star was here."

Q 9

PLAYBOY: Your boyfriend is San Antonio Spurs guard Tony Parker. How does an NBA star woo a successful actress?

Eva Longoria: Tony did it correctly. I took my dad to a Spurs game, and the team asked if we wanted to meet the players afterward, because they would love to meet me. I said no, but my dad said yes. So we took my dad back to the locker room, met all the players and took pictures with them. Tony was the last one I met. He invited my dad out to dinner, so of course I had to come. Then he asked me out for lunch. We talked on the phone for two months before we went on another date. It was very natural and slow, unexpected--very un-Hollywood. And here we are two years later.

Q 10

PLAYBOY: If you're really Parker's sex teacher, as another interview suggested, what have you taught him lately?

Eva Longoria: That's something I definitely want to clear up. That magazine story was quoted a lot, especially on the Internet: "Eva is the experienced one in the bedroom," and "Tony's had sex only once." I'm 31, Tony's 24. Tony's been in one long-term relationship. I've been married, divorced and in several long-term relationships, so I'm definitely the experienced one. When I met him, he was already way more mature and responsible than I was by tenfold and had been in the spotlight longer than I had. What can make me wobbly in a relationship is immaturity, which spawns all the other ugly things, but luckily Tony's more mature than I am. I'd also like to say Tony and I are not engaged. I'm not pregnant. Tony's definitely the teacher. He teaches me a lot of sweet, sexy things to say in French, but I can say them only to Tony.

Q 11

PLAYBOY: Monogamy can be challenging, especially for two famous, busy people. Is monogamy overrated?

Eva Longoria: I think you're born monogamous, like a penguin--you have one mate, and that's all you can handle. I don't have time to be with more than one person. I think that's the key. I fly home to Texas every weekend to be with Tony, and we know we have limited time together, so we don't waste it on anything like fighting. In between we e-mail, phone and use our Sidekicks to send photos, which of course we keep clean. We're both so afraid of anything obscene turning up on the Internet.

Q 12

PLAYBOY: You've been candid in interviews about things you like, such as vibrators and G-strings. Are you currently packing a vibrator? Are you wearing a G-string?

Eva Longoria: The function of a G-string is to give you no panty lines. The by-product of a G-string is that it's sexy. So the answer is yes, and it's white. The interviews in which I mentioned a vibrator were five years ago. With my relationship, obviously some things have changed.