Eva Longoria Does Wear Glasses, Lashes Out Against Australian Journalist Who Says She's 'Pretending'

Eva Longoria is going to do whatever she can to prove to the haters that she does in fact wear glasses and isn't just wearing them for promotional purposes.

After being in Australia to promote her new role as a brand ambassador for Specsavers, a Sydney Morning Herald journalist, Jenna Clarke, slammed the "Desperate Housewives" star for "pretending" to need glasses just to promote the brand, according to Yahoo! News Australia. Clarke decided to write an article saying that Longoria doesn't even wear glasses.

"We had Eva Longoria, the star of 'Desperate Housewives' (don't remember it? Ask your nan about how popular it was like a decade ago) in town representing a budget eyewear chain," she wrote. "But according to photographers that have been snapping her for close to 15 years-she doesn't wear spectacles."

Longoria decided to quickly come back with an awesome response on Twitter.

"If you had done your journalistic duty (it's actually not that hard, a more thorough Google job, or one phone call to my camp and they could have provided you with the documentation) you would see that I have been wearing READING glasses since May 3, 2013," Longoria wrote, as she then explained her eyesight had failed two years ago and quickly bought five pairs of prescription glasses from her optometrist.

"The reason your lazy journalist research of 'googling' didn't turn up pictures of me on the 'red carpet' is because I don't need glasses to see far, only to READ," she continued to write. "So unless you are in bed with me at night, or in the morning at my breakfast table reading the newspaper, then you probably won't find a 'paparazzi' shot of me. And sorry I haven't worn glasses on a 'red carpet' Jenna, but shockingly I am not usually READING a book on the red carpet."

During the promotional event for the popular glasses brand, Longoria sported a thick-rimmed pair of glasses, according to the Daily Mail. This is what originally started all the speculation that she was just doing it for the promotion. The publication even decided to point out the fact that Longoria had previously been a brand ambassador for DINE cat foot despite not owning a cat. It claimed she was a "serial offender when it comes to selling out in a not so subtle way."

Longoria wasn't going to let this slide, though. She even tweeted a few photos of herself wearing her glasses out in public to prove to Clarke that she should have done her research. She also thanked The Inquisitr for taking the original article by Clarke down "because it was false."

"So next time you want to write an article calling someone 'shameful' why don't you do your research," Longoria concluded. "It sounds like you need some glasses yourself."

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