Eva Longoria has spoken about her love for husband Jose Baston in an interview recently and revealed her reasons for taking on his last name.

“Even before we got engaged, we just felt married,” the 41-year-old actress says in the November issue of Redbook magazine. “We called one another ‘my husband’ and ‘my wife.’ It didn’t take either one of us very long to know that ‘this is the one.’ In my case, it only took 40 years to find him!”

The couple were married in May in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, a lakeside town about 88 miles from Mexico City, and the actress says she was “thrilled to take his name.”

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“I love him, I love his last name, and I love that tradition,” she said. “It’s a choice I made, but I realize it’s not for everybody.”

Did you take your husband’s last name when you got married?

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