Tuesday, March 14, 2017

I Got Called a Hippo And an Elephant All The Time -Gabourey

                    Fed up: 'As a woman in a different body, I get a lot of scripts and offers where someone has to make mention of my body immediately,' revealed Gabourey Sidibe during a panel discussion at the SXSW Festival on Saturday

Oscar winner Gabourey Sidibey said she is sick at screen writers who constantly make reference to a size,disclosing that even the public is not obsessed with it, the 33 years old  empire star said she is being called a Hippo and an Elephant all the time. this she said during a panel discussion at the SXSW Festival on Saturday.

'Someone wrote a script with me in mind and the first time someone other than my character was talking about my character they say "this hippo" or "this elephant,"' she confessed. 'And I’m like, "Are you serious? You wrote something for me and you’re calling me a hippo and all of the animals."' 
'This is my body. This has been my body my entire life and in my life my friends and my colleagues are not constantly talking about my body. But in most of my roles somebody has to make mention of it.'She said


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