Seven plus-sized actresses with big careers.
Last week, Howard Stern got ruder than usual on the topic of recent Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe. Overweight people, he said, can't have acting careers: "She should have gotten the Best Actress award because she's never going to have another shot. What movie is she gonna be in?" But, of course, obesity is not an automatic impediment to thespian success, male or female -- one need only look at Sidibe's "Precious" co-star Mo'Nique for an example of a full-figured actress who has collected a steady paycheck from the movie business. True, it's rare to see an onscreen presence bigger than a size two, but a life on the character actor margins can be eked out at the very least. So here's a list of seven actresses that prove Stern wrong: Jane Darwell Arguably the most famous person from Palmyra, Mo., Darwell is uncharitably described on Wikipedia as "short, stout and...
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