Therefore, I'm not even going to bother to review the movie, "Precious" in this post (although I thought it was a pretty good movie). My thoughts are that most of you have seen it already. Instead, I'd like to pose a question about the star of the movie, Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe (sidenote: I have no ill intentions here). However, I am really curious as to whether folks think that the movie industry will pressure Sidibe to lose weight, now that's she's gotten major acclaim? Also, do you think she should lose weight, or is she fine the way she is?
In a recent interview with Oprah, Gabby said, "My first diet started when I was six years old." "I've never been a small girl. One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body."
(January 16, 2009
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Her confidence seems to have caught the director of the movie, Lee Daniels, by surprise. According to Daniels, "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. "I had no doubt in my mind that she had four or five boyfriends, easily."
Personally I really admire her self-confidence, particularly in a world in which there is a lot of pressure for women to be thin. However, is she as an arguably morbidly obese woman in a "state of denial" because she is happy with her body?
Like I said, there is no intention to be a jerk here, I'm just curious about people's thoughts.
