Gabourey Sidibe's Mom Slams Howard Stern for Fat Jab: "Get a Life!"
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Gabourey Sidibe's mom is making a big deal about Howard Stern's criticism of her daughter.
"Get a life!" Alice Tan Ridley fumed on Inside Edition Monday of the shock jock, who called the Oscar nominee, 26, the "most enormous fat black chick I've ever seen... She should have gotten the Best Actress award because she's never going to have another shot. What movie is she gonna be in?"
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Added Ridley, "He can see, you can see, I can see Gabby is a big girl. She's a big woman, so what's wrong with that?
"She's not like everyone else in the world. I don't see him giving jobs out to anybody, so why should we care what he says?" Ridley -- who performs in the New York City subway for a living -- continued. "He might not hire her, but someone else will."
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The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance (NAAFA) also defended the Precious actress Tuesday -- one day after weight loss company AcaiSupply.com publicly offered her a one-year supply of their product to "reach your goal of someday winning an Oscar... by being active, fit, and most of all, healthy!"
Said NAAFA's spokeswoman Peggy Howell, "You cannot tell by looking at a person if they are healthy. Fat does not equal disease and thin does not equal healthy... Achievements come in all sizes."
Sidibe -- who will star in the Showtime dark comedy series The Big C beginning this May -- recently told Oprah Winfrey that she'd come to terms with her weight.
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“It's something I've had to work at. My first diet started when I was six years old," she said. "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."
Sidibe will also appear alongside Zoe Kravitz in "Yelling to the Sky," which hits theaters later this year.
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49Why do people take offense when somebody states an obvious fact without sugar-coating it? I think Gabby knows she's fat. Look at her, she's huge. There is no way to deny that this woman is obese, so why act like it?
HEY Gabourey Sidibe, YOU ARE A FRIGGING COW. Okay I said it...The Emporer is really naked. HELLOOOOOOOOOO!
It's amazing how everyone still tries to twist Stern's words and take his comments out of context. I guess it will never end. What he said was true. He simply stated that women who are morbidly obese do not get many (if any) movie roles. This woman is in fact obese. She is not obese because of Stern, nor will she be condemned to obesity as a result of his comments. Oh, and here's a news flash- It is not healthy to be obese. Just because the long term effects of obesity are not always obvious until much later has no bearing on the fact that it is extremely unsafe and unhealthy. Just like smoking- even though smoking is a major contributor to heart disease, lung cancer and emphysema, the ill effects are not visible till much later. Get a clue folks. NAAFA: National Association of Fatties Avoiding Acceptable diets.
HEY GURL I LIKE UR MOVIE SO MUCH
why is he picking on the fat( I mean unhealthy weighted)girl. has he not noticed the anorexic( I mean unhealthy weighted) girls lined up next to her at the awards? I mean come on, lets call out all the chics with unhealthy weight, Rippa/Posh/and anyone else over 5' that is a size 0.
JAIL HER MOM
Whatever Stern says is NOTHING compared to the abuse that Gabourey's mom has done to her. Think about it, you see a mother with her child constantly feeding and feeding and feeding her baby without restraint. That is child abuse plain and simple. This isn't just a case of her "losing a little weight", she has to lose a ton, AND go to therapy over the mental scars that her mother has left her.
look who the comment is coming from, some skinny washed up old man, gabby is beautiful no matter how big she is.
i agree with howard she a fat pig need to stop eating find a weight lost plan not weight gain plan she allready a fat pig keep the dounuts away frm her
Obviously she is overweight and could stand to be healthier. We see the weight and say oh she's unhealthy but we don't know for sure. Having said that Howard Stern's comment was not about how he fears for her health. He was being good ole stern and using deragatory comments to demean her and say how she could never make it any further in Hollywood because of her size. Why does he care? He is an adult man who has somehow made a living trashing, demeaning and saying downright nasty, hurtful and off the wall things about people. For those of you who keep saying she is unhealthy, that was not his point. You can be thin and unhealthy as well.
Hey Howard...... She might be fat.. But your ugly...... and she can lose weight!!
It's not healthy being that big but jeezzz...leave the poor girl alone. Walk a minute in her shoes you dick! First he called Roseanne fat and now Gabourey? Is he actually concerened for this girls well being or is he being a heartless asswad as always? Gabourey may be over-weight Howard but YOU are the real PIG! He looks like an old, diseased ridden, over grown, ostrich so how about that Howard?
gabby is very large she may be talented but she is still a very large morbidly obese person that should think about losing weight...i wonder what her blood pressure is...or her cholesterol level...she should think about those things...seriously...good luck to her but she hsould really consider weight loss and starting a healthy diet and lifestyle
Who cares how she looks like. We are not the one's to judge. God made everyone different.
What is the point to all of this? The woman knows she is morbidly obese, as is her mother. Genetics may play a part in her incredible size, but more does the bending of the elbow! I too thought the extra material on the shoulders/arms of the Oscar dress was purposely added to shield the public from those distasteful upper arms. Cottage cheese, huge.
YES GABBY IS A BIG GIRL, IF SHE IS HAPPY WITH HERSELF LEAVE HER ALONE. I SAW PRECIOUS, SHE WAS OH MY GOSH, TERRIFIC IN THIS MOVIE. HOWARD STERN IS A JERK, HE IS RUDE AND CRUDE..
Gabourey Sidibe IS terribly obese; however, that DOESN'T mean she'll never work in another movie and it doesn't mean she's ugly. It DOES mean she has or will have health issues. And as for media's comments on her weight - Jessica Simpson was criticized for being "fat" when she was photographed wearing a pair of 'mom' jeans, which were a SIZE 4. G.S. will have to lose 250 lbs before the media will stop criticizing her.
I am seeing it from both sides. Before I had heart problems my weight was 120 and Im 5'9. So you could call that curves. Then after i had my second child i suffered from heart problems. I gained and extra 100 pounds from medication. That extra pounds is fat. Not curves, and Ms.Sidibe should go on a diet. Shes too big.
Howard Stern is correct about her being unhealthy because of her weight. Peggy Howell is delusional is she believes this young lady is healthy. If she's not already a diabetic she will be shortly. If she doesn't already have sleep apnea she will shortly. And, on and on... A good mother accepts their kids, but encourages them to be healthy. Her mother is obese, too. They are all in denial.
liz she says that... but honestly she is thinking I wish I was a bit smaller so I could run walk jump breath...