For her first red carpet appearance at the Cannes Film Festival, Gabourey had to purchase an affordable black dress from Torrid since no one offered to dress her. Designers wouldn’t give her clothes because she was “too fat.”
“Even though we are moving towards more visibility for plus-size people, there is a lot [of] pushback,” the Precious star said in 2018.
“So it’s important to keep fighting [and] to keep being visible until the conversation changes and [it] is no longer about our bodies because I'm not my body. I'm a whole person.”
“Even though we are moving towards more visibility for plus-size people, there is a lot [of] pushback,” the Precious star said in 2018.
“So it’s important to keep fighting [and] to keep being visible until the conversation changes and [it] is no longer about our bodies because I'm not my body. I'm a whole person.”