This Is Just My Face

: Try Not to Stareby Gabourey Sidibe(9 total)

The Oscar-nominated Precious star and Empire actress delivers a much-awaited memoir—wise, complex, smart, funny—a version of the American experience different from anything we’ve read Gabourey Sidibe—“Gabby” to her le

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I just wrote the truth, and it made me feel better. So I wrote more. I felt even better. After two years of telling the truth on the page, as I know it, I've written an entire book and it helped reshape my view on life, my work, my body, my family, and, most importantly, myself.

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

Writing How to be a writer How to write a book Transparency

This is embarrassing, but when I was a teenager I used to write fan fiction about the pop group NSYNC.

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

Embarrassing secrets fan fiction Writing nsync

When I say I'm beautiful, I don't say it so someone will clap and think I'm brave. I'm not doing it so that someone will comment on how confident I am. I don't say it with ego and I don't say it defensively. I don't say it meaning that people who look like me are better than people who look like you…

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

beauty

There's nothing more fashion-forward than being the fucking boss.

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

humor Career Fashion

I was basically the perfect candidate for DBT even though my actual diagnosis was only depression with a bit of an eating disorder. (I say "only" and "a bit" like this wasn't absolutely ruining my life. I was going to die. LOL.)

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

Depression memes Depression humor

I don't think it's funny when people stuff pillows in their clothing to look like me. I don't think it's funny when people paint their faces to look like me. I don't think it's funny when a stranger calls me a fat bitch no matter what they're offering to do for me. I don't think it's funny that I'm…

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

comedy Jokes Feelings Emotion

I refuse to be anyone's survivor because I prefer to think of myself as a winner.

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

Survivors Survival Quote of the Moment

I knew what I looked like. I had mirrors in my home. I'd just seen myself in pictures. I wasn't in the dark about it. I just assumed at that time that if I could display a talent worthy of praise, if I could prove that I was worthy of attention, that I wasn't just who you thought I was... I guess I…

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

Bodies beauty Women Before and after

You keep your horrible boyfriend around because you feel like shit and he’s the only one around who agrees with you. He validates the part of you that thinks you deserve bad things instead of good things.

— Gabourey Sidibe, amazon.com

Toxic Relationships Low self-esteem H4D-46

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