Gabourey Sidibe describes her self as “f–king unbreakable.” And yet, she dreads red carpet events.
“It’s really hard to get dressed up for
award shows when I know I’ll get made fun of because of my weight,”
Sidibe, 34, explained at the 2018 MAKERS conference in Hollywood,
California on Monday, February 5. “If I wear purple, somebody will call
me Barney. If I wear white, a frozen turkey. If I wear red, a pitcher of
Kool-Aid. These are actual tweets I’ve gotten.” (The Empire actress
brilliantly shut down trolls who criticized her appearance at the 2014
Golden Globes by tweeting: “I mos def cried about it on that private jet
on my way to my dream job last night. #JK.”)
Sidibe, a champion for loving yourself,
went on to reveal that the No. 1 question she gets asked is: “Gabourey,
how are you so confident?”
“I always wonder if that’s the first thing they ask Rihanna when they meet her. ‘‘Riri, how are you so confident?’ mused the American Horror Story alum. “Of course not. Everybody knows why Rihanna’s confident. She’s beautiful.”
“How am I so confident?” continued an emotional Sidibe. “It’s my good time and my good life despite what you think of me.”
Sidibe underwent weight-loss surgery in 2016 after she
was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, but feels uncomfortable when people
praise her slimmer shape. “You don’t need to congratulate me on it,” she
told Robin Roberts in June. “You don’t congratulate me every time I blow my nose. I need to. It’s my body. Mind your own body.”
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