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Ricardo Antonio Chavira (Carlos Solis) revealed on a recent chat show appearance that he was starting to forget his mother, so he uses interviews as way of remembering her and preserving his thoughts so that he can talk about her one day to his son.

While appearing on The Tyra Banks Show Chavira told Banks that he got involved with the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation as he wanted to do something positive for the community. "My family has always been deeply rooted in community service and civil service and so I thought why not use [my visibility] in a positive way to the community," he said. "And the reason I chose Susan G. Komen was because I lost my mother when I was 15 years old to breast and ovarian cancer, and I watched first hand this disease just take her away from me."

Chavira explained how it was also an important way for him to remember his mother. "I kind of did it for a selfish reason too, because I'm starting to lose a lot of those memories of her from when she was alive, and I want to be able to share those with my son," he said. "So I thought if I can do this and talk about it openly, and talk about what happened and kind of re-experience those memories, then I'll have it catalogued in articles and whatever people print, and I can share that with him later on."

Chavira's appearance on the show was in an episode with a breast theme. As well as the more serious matters, and Chavira aimed to help, there was also some light-hearted content. Before he enjoyed a fashion show of models wearing new bra designs, Chavira reflected on why men were so fascinated by breasts. "I think its funny because guys would probably say 'Oh it's not the most important thing to me, the most important thing is the mind, or her eyes'. You know, let's be honest, there is a certain amount of importance on physical beauty. For myself, like, yeah, it's definitely up there."

But he said breasts weren't everything, and he has a preference for a nice laugh. "Physical beauty is definitely important in itself, but it's also how that hinges in with someone's demeanour, intelligence, their personality," he said. "For me, one of the biggest things that gets me is humor. Do they have sense of humor? Can they laugh, and do they have a good laugh? A good laugh will attract me across the room any day of the week."

Chavira went on to talk about how aspiring to be like beautiful people in television is okay, but fans shouldn't try to duplicate celebrities. "I remember like when Friends first came out, Jennifer Aniston and how her hair was, there was so many ladies [that tried to replicate her hairstyle] and it looked bad on all of them. I think that's great, to look at someone who is beautiful on television or film [and to want to] aspire to be something like that. But to be exactly like that is kind of detracting from the uniqueness of each and every human being.

Chavira also talked about Lee National Denim Day, which hopes to raise $10m this year to help beat breast cancer on October 7. More information on the event can be found at the Lee National Denim Day website.

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