“I Thought So Highly Of Myself Because No One Else Did” Gabourey Sidibe Delivers Moving Speech At Ga

“Gabourey, how are you so confident?” It’s not easy.

It’s hard to get dressed up for award shows and red carpets when I know I will be made fun of because of my weight. There’s always a big chance if I wear purple, I will be compared to Barney. If I wear white, a frozen turkey. And if I wear red, that picture of Kool-Aid that says, “Oh, yeah!” Twitter will blow up with nasty comments about how the recent earthquake was caused by me running to a hot dog cart or something.

And “Diet or Die?”[She gives the finger to that] This is what I deal with every time I put on a dress. This is what I deal with every time someone takes a picture of me. Sometimes when I’m being interviewed by a fashion reporter, I can see it in her eyes, “How is she getting away with this?

Why is she so confident? How does she deal with that body? Oh my God, I’m going to catch fat!”

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