Latina actress ROSIE PEREZ struggled through Christmas (05) with a hip injury after trying to dance to her favourite Beyonce Knowles hit on the treadmill at her local gym.

The WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP star was ordered to rest up over the holidays by doctors who treated her after she badly bruised her hip bone in a freak accident.

She explains, "I hurt my hip, I bruised my bones. I was dancing on the treadmill when it was running.

"When I'm on the treadmill I like to do the iPod thing and everything like that and my favourite artist to exercise to is Beyonce - I love her and all of a sudden her song Crazy In Love comes on and I lost it.

"I started fantasising I had the blonde wig... and I had the mini-dress on, I had Jay-Z by my side.. and then bang - I got too excited and I miscalculated the rhythm with the thing going."

But, despite her pain, the actress is refusing to take pills to cope.

She adds, "They gave me these heavy duty narcotics but, contrary to popular belief, I'm not into painkillers.

"Everybody pops a pill for everything and I think we should endure a little pain."