Gabby Sidibe on Weight
Gabby Sidibe is the breakout star of the movie Precious, where she plays the role of an obese, abused, 16-year-old. The actress, who is actually 26 years old, has all of Hollywood talking because of her moving and primal performance, but what most of us don’t know is that her true character is a 180-degree turn in comparison to her character in the movie. The director of the film, Lee Daniels, said that Sidibe had to ‘unwork’ all of her natural confidence in order to star in a role that required her to be shy, abused and fearful. Daniels also added,
“She is unequivocally comfortable in her body, in a very bizarre way. Either she’s in a state of denial or she’s so elevated that she’s on another level,” he says. “I had no doubt in my mind that she had four or five boyfriends, easily.”
Sidibe is truly body confident even though she weighs approximately 350 pounds. She said that when she was just 11 years old she had an aunt who offered to pay for her go on a fat-loss cruise and to this day she still has friends and family who pressure her to lose weight. At the beginning her feelings were often hurt but at some point she learned to love her body, love the way she looks and not bother with what other people think. She said,
“I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don’t like myself, there’s no reason to even live the life. I love the way I look. I’m fine with it. And if my body changes, I’ll be fine with that.”
The movie Precious also stars Mariah Carey and Sherri Shepherd and will be out in theaters in November.
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