Jennifer Hudson Declined Precious Role, Didn't Want to Gain Weight
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Gabourey Sidibe sure must be grateful for this!
In Jennifer Hudson's book I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, the 30-year-old singer-actress opens up about why she turned down an opportunity to star in the Academy Award nominated 2009 film Precious.
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"I had [gained weight] with Effie [in Dreamgirls]," she explains, as excepted by Uptown Magazine. "And as much as I was moved by this film, I wanted to try a role that had nothing whatsoever to do with my weight."
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Instead, Hudson, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dreamgirls, went on to co-star in the first Sex and the City Movie alongside Sarah Jessica Parker.
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Since her days on American Idol, Hudson has dropped 80 lbs. with the help of Weight Watchers. In September, she even opened up the Jennifer Hudson Weight Watchers Center in Chicago.
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14I wouldn't take the Precious role either; I have seen the trailer and various excerpts and how anyone could sit through this misery-fest is quite beyond me. Jennifer Hudson made absolutely the right decision not to double her body weight for this role; that really would have been a foolish decision. JHud now has almost every entertainment award going (I think only a TONY award is missing from her collection but all in due time!) and now has more film options open to her as well as her singing talent!
It her personal decsion. I would be glad to take the role of precious.
Can't really blame her. I don't think I'd want to gain all of that weight to play a role either.
she looks like a Star Jones a young star
i am glad she lost weight but she doesnt look like herself any more, her head looks very big, her face looks suck and she looks like a light bulb, her body is great tho
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Vapid. All she talks/cares about is her weight loss, EVER. God get a brain.
Thank god Jennifer Hudson turned down the offer for her star role in the Oscar winning film "Precious". She'd have sunken the film.
I am Glad and she is Happy, that 's what She want, God continue to Bless her.
shannon for once I agree with you 100% lol I am glad shes lost weight and looks amazing and is healthy now but its ALL the girl talks about shes way too into herself its like all the weight loss has gone to her head now. I liked her better heavy
Enough talk about your weight problems etc... it's getting boring. By the way, you look pregnant
People stop hating on Jennifer Hudson. Her voice is top notch period. She lost weight for herself. Jen did not do it for you small minded no class people. Jhud is a superstar all do to her singing and as an actress. Award winning of them both. If she ever gain her weight back the point system will still be around(Weight Watches). Don't worry about Jen look at yourself in the mirror. She have told you clowns she got this!!!
I hate that her talent as a singer (not my taste, but she can belt it) is always overshadowed by the fact she's lost weight. Blah who cares
I really don't blame her but Jennifer is no longer the girl that can sing . All we talk about i her weight . Once upon a time there was a girl that loved who whe was and claimed that she loved her curves. Now she is just another skinny singer who we just talk about her weight. Let us hope that she don't gain it back like Oprah because the only focus that we have is on her weight and not on her talent.