Former “American Idol” contestant and current “Dreamgirls” star Jennifer Hudson is hoping to be a role model for real-sized women.
Hudson tells Newsweek she’s a size 12, while the entertainment business loves the size-two woman.
She lost weight since making “Dreamgirls,” but while the movie people tell her to keep her curves, the music people tell her, “You look great. Keep losing.”
Her thinking is, “Why should I feel like the minority when the majority of America is a size 12?”
She says a lot of singers don’t sound the same when they lose weight, and she has what she calls “a little singer’s pouch” and that’s where her voice comes from.
She says, “Somebody has to represent the big girls. Why not me?”
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