'Precious' Actress Laughs off Criticisms of Gabourey Sidibe
'Precious' Actress Laughs off Criticisms of Gabourey Sidibe Though "Precious" star Gabourey Sidibe didn't nab a statuette at the Oscars, the night was clearly a win for her. She looked radiant on the red carpet, even flirting with Gerard Butler . The pressure to conform in Hollywood is legendary, but Sidibe is standing up to it with grace. "I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life," she told New York magazine in September. "They [the press] try to paint the picture that I was this downtrodden, ugly girl who was unpopular in school and in life and then I got this role and now I'm awesome, but the truth is that I've been awesome, and then I got this role." That hasn't stopped critics from attacking the actress for her size. An opportunistic weight loss supplement company recently wrote a lett...