GABOUREY SIDIBE'S MAMA DEFENDS HER-"SO SHE'S A BIG WOMAN?WHAT'S WRONG WITH THAT!"-THAT BLACK REACTION TO WHITE SKINNY GIRL LOVING HOWARD STERN SHOULD TEACH THAT IN AFRICA BIG IS BEAUTIFUL! AND THIS BLACK SKINNED BIG BEAUTY IS SUPREME!

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Gabourey Sidibe's Mom Slams Howard Stern for Fat Jab: "Get a Life!"

Us Magazine - March 16, 2010 

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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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  eric
  victoria mary strong is a fat nasty

  report abuseposted March 31, 2010 7:34 PM PDT
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  VICTORIA MARY STONG
  DOWN WITH HOWARD STERN. BOYCOTT HOWARD STERNS SHOW! KEEP AWAY FROM HOWARD STERNS SHOWS IF YOU WANT OUR CHILDREN AND EVERYONE TO GET MORE MORALS,STANDARDS,VALUES&PRINCIPLES.

  report abuseposted March 19, 2010 9:16 PM PDT
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  VICTORIA MARY STONG
  By the way,Stern never had any respect really for ANY woman.This disrespectful statement should NOT surprise anyone.If a person is allowed to disrespect anyone,they just keep going&graduate until they get enough ratings to have their own shows in many circumstances.THANK GOD we have"The Steve Wilkos Show"&"Oprah"etc. that make it through for bein

  report abuseposted March 19, 2010 9:13 PM PDT
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  VICTORIA MARY STONG
  With the exception of idiot"0986",THANKS TO EVERYONE'S SUPPORT SO FAR HERE!God bless you all for educating,enlightening&scolding the other idiots out there that discriminate&are mean-spirited to plus size women.The gorgeous Gabourey Sidibe's beautiful Mother Alice Tan Ridley is a friend of mine.I thank God she's my friend because shes(&

  report abuseposted March 19, 2010 9:03 PM PDT
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  paddicakes
  Stern should shut up. His wife may be thin but she looks like a ferret.

  report abuseposted March 18, 2010 2:02 AM PDT
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  Michael
  If Stern goes to Idol, it's over, only in America can you be paid to be an Ass!!!

  report abuseposted March 17, 2010 6:53 PM PDT
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  Tee
  She is beautiful and talented and secure in herself which is a lot more than the people talking about her can say. God bless her

  report abuseposted March 17, 2010 5:22 PM PDT
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  Liv
  Hey ......DIVERSITY is the sweetness of life....

  report abuseposted March 17, 2010 12:57 PM PDT
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  rainbow
  leave her alone i think she is beautiful with so much talent to offer to all of us. god didn't make all of us to be the same and look the same . at least she is not jessica simpson who has nothing talent or singing voice. and she needs to look at the mirror when i see her i don't see a beautiful person / i see a dumb young woman who bleach her hair.

  report abuseposted March 17, 2010 4:42 AM PDT
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  keep it real
  leave the woman alone.