SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS BELOW – VOTE ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or write more… Gabourey Sidibe, Oscar Nominated actress speaks frankly about her weight. “I didn’t really get to grow up hearing that I was beautiful a lot, or that I was worth anything nor did I grow up seeing myself on TV. Then at some point when I was 21 or 22 I just decided that life wasn’t worth living if I wasn’t happy with myself so I just took all the steps that I could to figure out how to love myself and become confident. Truthfully speaking if I hadn’t found this person before that movie (‘Precious’ from the novel ‘Push’) I wouldn’t have even be in that movie.”
Gabby also gives an insight into how other people’s curiosity and perceptions about her weight affect her…
“People see me as a confident person but I get shaken a lot, especially being in this business. A few weeks ago I was on vacation and I went into a CVS pharmacy and as I’m paying I see a picture of myself on the cover of a magazine and they’re guesstimating what my weight is? The headline was ‘Gabourey Sidibe 250 lbs.”
It’s obviously tough for Gabby sometimes, especially working as an actress in Hollywood where there aren’t that many big, big girls working as actresses. How does she keep keeping on?
“I have to keep going and living my life, so when things like that upset me I have to find things that build my confidence back up. Because I don’t want to wait for work I want to make work.”
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Source: Grazia – Gabourey Sidibe speaking at the WIE, the Women’s Inspiration and Enterprise conference in New York.