Most celebrities in Hollywood are stick thin skinny because of all the pressure that is put on them to look good all the time, but here is a list of 10 celebrities who love having a bit of meat on their bones.
Christina Hendricks
America’s gone mad, mad, mad for 35-year-old actress Christina Hendricks – and her 1950s curves. The curvaceous “Mad Men” star was named Sexiest Woman Alive by Esquire, but she says fashion designers refuse to outfit her 5’8″, size 14 frame. “I’m still struggling for someone to give me a darn dress,” she said before the 2010 Emmys. She eventually found a Zac Posen number and wowed the crowd. Christina Hendricks has been outspoken about her body and how she feels about it. Speaking about modeling in Italy when she was 15 pounds heavier, she told Health magazine, “I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like, ‘Oh, I look like a woman.’ And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, ’cause I loved it.’”
Whitney Thompson
No one has ever accused Whitney Thompson of having undersized ambitions. The 22-year-old Florida native smashed through television barriers when she won season 10 of “America’s Next Top Model” – the first plus-sized model to do so. Now Thompson is trying to help American women feel comfortable with their own bodies. Along with Chenese Lewis, Thompson, right, is the cover girl for this year’s “Love Your Body Day,” and a spokesperson for the National Eating Disorder Association.The size-12 stunner, has strong words for the diet industry, saying it makes women feel insecure. “People don’t realize that we have a billion-dollar diet industry working against our self-esteem. There is always a new product out selling us happiness if we ‘finally’ shed those pounds,’” she says on her blog. “If you want to change your body, then eat whole foods and get more cardio. However, I think that it is important for people to learn to love their bodies, regardless of shape or weight before they make the decision to change it.”
Crystal Renn
Crystal Renn beat anorexia to become one of America’s top models – and an outspoken critic of the “thin equals pretty” mindset that prevails in fashion circles. “I have made it my life to speak about feeling completely beautiful no matter what size you are,” she told CBS News.The 24-year-old beauty was horrified after a recent photo shoot in which she was radically retouched into a waif. “I didn’t even recognize myself when I saw the photo,” she says. “Friends had been emailing me, asking if I was all right. I was, but I was worried about girls with anorexia who would see these pictures and think that thin was better.”
Toccara Jones
On television, Toccara Jones has become famous for being a bit big and utterly beautiful. The statuesque model won “Covergirl of the Week” five times on season three of “America’s Next Top Model,” although she didn’t win the show. Since then she has signed with Wilhelmina models and has been featured in Italian Vogue, Ebony and King Magazine, among countless others. Jones’ relationship with her weight has been a back-and-forth affair. She says she dropped 32 pounds while competing on reality show “Celebrity Fit Club.” And now she is trying to help “real size women” to be “healthy, fit and fabulous,” with – what else – a workout DVD.
Tyra Banks
For full-figured women, Tyra Banks is almost a folk hero. In 2006, the 5’10″ supermodel-turned-talk-show-host gained 30 pounds. Critics had a field day, but Banks fired right back. “To all of you who have something nasty to say to me or to women built like me,” she said on her talk show, “I have one thing to say to you: Kiss my fat ass!” Since then, Banks’s weight has yo-yoed. But her reality show, “America’s Next Top Model,” has promoted several plus-sized models and even held a national contest for “fierce, real-sized” teen models. The winner was a size 14, which, incidentally, is about the national average.
Kate Dillon
As a 12-year-old girl, Kate Dillon told People magazine that she was inspired by an anorexic TV character to radically drop weight. “The fact that the girl died in the movie didn’t seem to deter me somehow,” she told them. Her radical dieting worked. Five years later, Dillon was working fashion shows in Paris and appearing in Vogue and Glamour, according to People. But Dillon couldn’t keep going. “I just couldn’t keep starving myself,” she told People. “I was only a size 8, yet I was told I was huge and disgusting.” Dillon saw a nutritionist, gained weight and – after struggling to find the right relationship with food – reinvented herself as a plus-sized model with self-esteem. Now, at 36, Dillon is modeling, training for triathlons, and doing yoga, according to Vogue. Oh, and did we mention she managed to get a master’s degree in international development from Harvard and is raising money to educate kids in Rwanda? Now that’s weighty.
Mia Tyler
Mia Tyler doesn’t think the revolution will be televised. The daughter of Aerosmith front man Steven Tyler and Bebe Buell Cyrinda Foxe thinks it’s going to be worn. Tyler, a plus-size model and actress, started her own plus-size clothing line in 2009. She hopes it will help break the stigma of clothing made for bigger women. “Beauty comes in all shapes, sizes, and packages,” Mia Tyler says on Revolution 1228′s website. “Including ME!”
Queen Latifah
Everything about Queen Latifah is big: talent, success and confidence. And the Grammy award-winning musician and Golden Globe-winning actress has never been shy about her curves either.” I just had to grow to love my body,” she said in 2002, according to People. “I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself.” America loves her too. At 40, the New Jersey native is a spokeswoman for Covergirl and has more acting and music awards than she can count.
Mo’Nique
Comedienne and critically acclaimed actress Mo’Nique has always claimed to be “fat and fabulous,” but last year she decided she wanted to be healthy too. “Let’s be healthy big people,” she told Jet magazine, according to Entertainment Tonight. “Everybody can’t be a size 0 or 45, but let’s be healthy.” The 42-year-old says she shed 40 pounds the natural way. “This was truly making the commitment to watch what I eat and commit to working out,” the mother of three told Jet. “I stopped eating red meat.” She may have to go further to reach her goals. At more than 200 pounds and just 5-foot, 6-inches, Mo’Nique says she she knows she still technically obese.
America Ferrera
America Ferrera may be “Ugly Betty,” but in reality she’s anything but. “We’re not all a size 2 and we’re not all a size 0, and you know what? That’s okay because some of us like to eat,” she told Project Weight Loss in 2008. The 26-year-old actress first gained notice in the 2002 film “Real Women Have Curves.” Since then her award shelf has filled up with an Emmy, a Golden Globe and a SAG award, to name a few. Despite her success, being in Hollywood hasn’t made it easy for Ferrera to deal with an industry reluctant to promote body sizes any bigger than Megan Fox’s. “You have to build a normal relationship with exercise and food,” Ferrara told Project Weight Loss. “For me it’s not about looking like a supermodel – it’s about feeling good about who I am naturally.”
source: 10 Big Beautiful Celebs That Love Their Curves [CBS News]
Sometimes in Hollywood a script calls for actresses to tone down their makeup or gain a bit of weight, which leads us to this list. Now I don’t think any of these actresses are that ugly in the roles they play, some of them are just wearing barely any makeup but some of them do look a bit like death.
20. Katherine Heigl
Katherine toned down her stunning looks to play the plain Jane in ’27 Dresses.’ Are we really supposed to believe that a dishwater-blond dye job is supposed to make Hiegl “ugly”?
19. Drew Barrymore
Drew played the dorky Josie Geller in ‘Never Been Kissed’ but ugly clothes, no make-up and a dorky hairdo couldn’t hide the fact she was a stunning woman.
18. Linda Cardellini
Linda is stunning but she often plays homely characters. She tried her best to convince us that she was an ugly nerd as Velma in 2002′s ‘Scooby-Doo.’ Unfortunately for Linda, we can see past those hideous wedges and wig to know she is actually gorgeous in real life.
17. Christina Ricci
Christina is so cute that the only way to make her homely is to stick on a disgusting pig nose onto her face. Ricci played the unfortunately-nosed title character of the film ‘Penelope.’
16. America Ferrera
Perhaps the most common example of a pretty actress who plays ugly is America in her role as Betty in ‘Ugly Betty.’ Again, dowdy clothes and nerdy accessories are brought in to turn the stunning America into a (sort of believable) nerd, but we all know that America is gorgeous in real life.
15. Cameron Diaz
Cameron played the homely Lotte in ‘Being John Malkovich’ with the aid of a frizzy wig and brown eye contacts. Because we all know how brown eyes/curly hair equals homely!
14. Anne Hathaway
If there is ever a “makeover” scene in a film you can guarantee that the pre-makeover character will be wearing glasses and ugly clothes. So it is no surprise that Anne had to get ugly for her breakout role in ‘The Princess Diaries.’
13. Scarlett Johansson
Scarlett is lusted after by almost every man in America but men weren’t exactly clamoring for her attention in her breakout role as am awkward, snarky teenager in ‘Ghost World.’
12. Tina Fey
Every Thursday Tina tries to convince us that she is the unattractive Liz Lemon on NBC’s ’30 Rock.’ Sure, trying to pass off Fey as ugly is pretty unbelievable but the show is funny enough for us to ignore this ridiculous element.
11. Michelle Williams
Michelle typically plays “pretty girl” roles but in the indie film ‘Wendy and Lucy’ she tried her best to look homely. We guess all it takes to look ugly is to have an unfortunate short haircut and an unflattering pair of jorts.
10. Nicole Kidman
Nicole popped on a fake nose to get “ugly” to play Virginia Woolf in ‘The Hours.’ Despite how the film portrayed her, Woolf was actually a celebrated beauty during her time. But “pretty” doesn’t translate to “Oscar” for Hollywood actresses.
9. Chloe Sevigny
Chloe is known for her good looks and fashionable taste off-camera but she dialed up the dowdiness for Nikki Grant in HBO’s ‘Big Love.’ It is hard to make a pompadour and a French braid look cute, but Chloe somehow finds a way to make it work.
8. Jenna Fisher
Jenna scrunched her hair with a full can of mousse to make us believe she was the plain Pam in NBC’s ‘The Office.’ That hairstyle and boring office clothing could make even the most gorgeous woman look plain.
7. Elisabeth Moss
Pretty Elisabeth got the world’s worst bangs to play the unattractive but ambitious Peggy Olson in AMC’s ‘Mad Men.’ Again, Hollywood’s answer to make pretty actresses unattractive is a horrible haircut.
6. Kaitlin Olson
Kaitlin tries her best to come off as unattractive as Dee Reynolds in ‘It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia’ but we can all tell she is stunning when not dressed up to look like a white trash slob. Why are so many leading women in comedy shows forced to play ugly?
5. Hilary Swank
Hilary is a stunning woman but she made us believe she was a dowdy transgendered man for her Oscar-winning role in ‘Boys Don’t Cry.’
4. Mariah Carey
Mariah shocked the world when she stripped off her diva glamor and played a plain-looking social worker in ‘Precious.’
3. Felicity Huffman
One of Hollywood’s favorite way to ugly-up actresses is to make them play a transgendered person. Felicity played male-to-female transsexual Bree for 2005′s ‘Transamerica.’
2. Charlize Theron
Charlize surprised audiences everywhere when she portrayed a homeless, murdering hooker in 2003′s ‘Monster,’ which earned her an Oscar. Looking at the picture of the two, it is still hard to believe that they are even the same person.
1. Amy Sedaris
Perhaps one of the greatest examples of “getting ugly for a role” is Amy playing Jerri Blank in the brilliant TV show (and later, movie) ‘Strangers With Candy.’ Sedaris played up Jerri’s ugliness so much that it almost became an art form.
Do you agree with this list? I would take out Katherine Heigl and add in Renee Zellweger for playing Bridget Jones.
source: 20 Pretty Actresses Who Aren’t Afraid To Play Ugly (PHOTOS) [Celebuzz]
The actor wrote a blog on his MySpace page early Saturday morning, detailing how it all went down. He wrote, “Walking back to my friend’s car, about a block away from the party, two men jumped out of their car and held a gun to my face and stole my wallet and my friend’s purse/camera/phone.”
Blue wrote that he was happy to be alive (obviously!) and also glad it didn’t happen to one of his richer co-stars — like America Ferrera or Judith Light.
Did he just use this opportunity to ask for a raise?
What others said:
Ugly Betty News says, “This is an awful thing to happen to anyone, especially near the holidays. Here’s hoping they catch the perpetrators and punish them quickly. Oh, and ABC, Blue needs to be made a regular, and needs a new contract (based on what he’s said about money in this post). Of all of guest stars on Ugly Betty, David Blue is the most universally liked, based on comments at Ugly Betty News.
Lindsay Lohan might be giving her acting comeback a little push with a guest appearance on ABC’s “Ugly Betty”. An insider tells the New York Obsever,
“Everyone’s very excited. Of course it brings a lot of attention to the show, and it’s a great part for Lindsay.”
Lindsay would play a fallen beauty queen who manages the fast food restaurant where the Betty’s father works. Betty, played by America Ferrera, would befriend Lindsay’s character and help get her a job at the show’s fictional fashion magazine.
Looks like “Ugly Betty” is becoming the next hot spot for movie actors to make their guest appearances. Victoria Beckham’s episode is airing tonight. Here’s a little preview:
Source: “Lindsay Lohan: Making A Comeback On TV’s Ugly Betty?” [Star Magazine]; Photo: Time
Her obsession with couture, twiggy frame and primped appearance meant Victoria Beckham fitted right into Ugly Betty’s world of high fashion.
The Spice Girl recently filmed a starring role on the award-winning Channel 4 programme, Ugly Betty – and walked a way with a rather hefty pay check.
She was reportedly paid an impressive £70,000 for a one-off cameo appearance in an episode titled Nice Day for a Posh Wedding.
This sneak peek picture shows Victoria playing bridesmaid to Ugly Betty villain Wilhelmina (Vanessa Williams), who is set to wed Alan Dale’s Bradford Meade.
Even Ryan Seacrest dressed like that couldn’t get people to watch the Emmys this year. The broadcast may have been the least-watched in history.
Preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research put the audience for Sunday’s show, aired on Fox, at 13.1 million viewers. That’s three million fewer than for last year’s telecast, on NBC, and less than the record low 13.8 million three years ago on ABC.
What were people watching? About 13.3 million viewers chose to watch the New England Patriots play the San Diego Chargers instead. Which is sad since the Patriots won 38-14 and it wasn’t even a game after the first quarter.
The best part of the whole broadcast was Katherine Heigl correcting the announcer who mispronounced her name. Other than that, there were no real surprises. But if you’re interested, you can see all the winners after the jump
America Ferrera, star of the popular show (which I’ve never actually seen) “Ugly Betty” gets the cover and a photo shoot in something called “W” magazine, which I’ve never heard of.
America Ferrera‘s first real showbiz experience was something of a letdown. At 16, after a decade of acting in school plays and drifting off each night to Hollywood dreams, she was cast in a Disney Channel movie about a junior high school dance team with the somewhat hilarious name of Gotta Kick It Up. At first, she was thrilled. “I love to dance, so I couldn’t believe I was getting paid to just dance all day. And there were four other girls in the cast, so that was fun. And you know the way you think when you’re a teenager: Disney Channel today, Oscars tomorrow!” she says with a laugh. But a few weeks into filming, she had what she describes as “a mini nervous breakdown.” “I just felt really empty,” she says. “I had achieved my dream, and it wasn’t totally fulfilling. I still had school problems, and I still had boy problems. My life was still my life. I guess I had been waiting to be turned into a swan.”
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Betty Suarez—the lead character in television’s Ugly Betty—is a style-challenged young Latina from Queens who lands a job as assistant to the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. The show is based on a Colombian telenovela called Yo Soy Betty, la Fea, which was a cultural phenomenon in Latin America and was adapted for markets around the world—everywhere from Israel to India—before being imported to the U.S. for the fall 2006 season. American audiences fell for the series almost immediately. Drawing roughly 14 million viewers a week, the show dominates its competitive Thursday night time slot and ranks as the most watched newcomer of the season. In January Ugly Betty won the Golden Globe for best TV comedy or musical series, and Ferrera herself—who dons a wig, fake brows and snap-on faux braces for her role—walked away with the statuette for best actress, beating out such veterans as Felicity Huffman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. Two weeks later she took home a SAG award.
According to critics and those who work with Ferrera on Ugly Betty, such accolades were well deserved. “She’s one of the most charismatic people I’ve ever met,” says Salma Hayek, an executive producer of the show. “She’s also authentic. That’s a rare characteristic nowadays, and that’s why people are falling in love with her. I knew the minute that I saw her that she was a superstar.”
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What’s most interesting about America-as-Betty is the breadth of her appeal. The character has struck a chord with a remarkably diverse collection of fans— 12-year-old girls, gay men, Latinas, the fashion crowd—all of whom seem to want to adopt her as their mascot. The day after the Globes, for example, California Congresswoman Hilda Solis took to the floor of the House to, in her words, “commend America and everyone involved in Ugly Betty for helping to break down stereotypes and provide a role model for young Latinas.” A few months later, Out magazine put the cast on its cover under a headline that read, HOW UGLY BETTY BECAME THE GAYEST, BEST SHOW ON TV. In the accompanying story, Ferrera recounted the surreal experience of attending the West Hollywood Halloween parade—a big night for L.A.’s gay community—and seeing scores of guys dressed up as Betty. “Anyone who’s ever felt like an outsider can see themselves in her and feel represented,” she says. “And who hasn’t, at some point in their life, felt like they didn’t belong?”
The article and photo spread is called “Hot Betty” as a play on “Ugly Betty.” I’d say it was more like “Not All That Bad Looking Betty” or “Kinda Fugly for Hollywood But She’d Do in a Pinch Betty.”
MollyGood disagrees saying it should be “Slightly Chubby but Still Strikingly Beautiful Betty.” Usually, the gossip blogs are way too hard on really hot babes. Here, though, I think they’re grading on a curve because of the name of the show.
Female Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries Helen Mirren / ELIZABETH I – Elizabeth I – HBO
Male Actor in a TV Movie or Miniseries Jeremy Irons / ELIZABETH I – Earl of Leicester – HBO
Female Actor in a Comedy Series America Ferrera / UGLY BETTY – Betty Suarez – ABC
Male Actor in a Comedy Series Alec Baldwin / 30 ROCK – Jack Donaghy – NBC
Ensemble in a Comedy Series THE OFFICE – NBC Leslie David Baker – Stanley Hudson Brian Baumgartner – Kevin Malone Steve Carell – Michael Scott David Denman – Roy Anderson Jenna Fischer – Pam Beesly Kate Flannery – Meredith Palmer Melora Hardin – Jan Levinson Mindy Kaling – Kelly Kapoor Angela Kinsey – Angela Martin John Krasinski – Jim Halpert Paul Lieberstein – Toby Flenderson B.J. Novak – Ryan Howard Oscar Nunez – Oscar Martinez Phyllis Smith – Phyllis Lapin Rainn Wilson – Dwight Schrute
Male Actor in a Supporting Role Eddie Murphy / DREAMGIRLS – James “Thunder†Early Paramount Pictures
Life Achievement Award Julie Andrews
Female Actor in a Drama Series Chandra Wilson / GREY’S ANATOMY – Dr. Miranda Bailey – ABC
Male Actor in a Drama Series Hugh Laurie / HOUSE – Dr. Gregory House – FOX
Ensemble in a Drama Series GREY’S ANATOMY – ABC Justin Chambers – Alex Karev Eric Dane – Mark Sloan Patrick Dempsey – Derek Shepherd Katherine Heigl – Isobel “Izzie†Stevens T.R. Knight – George O’Malley Sandra Oh – Cristina Yang James Pickens, Jr. – Richard Webber Ellen Pompeo – Meredith Grey Sara Ramirez – Callie Torres Kate Walsh – Addison Montgomery Shepherd Isaiah Washington – Preston Burke Chandra Wilson – Miranda Bailey
Female Actor in a Supporting Role Jennifer Hudson / DREAMGIRLS – Effie White – Paramount Pictures
Male Actor in a Leading Role Forest Whitaker / THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND – Idi Amin – Fox Searchlight Pictures
Female Actor in a Leading Role Helen Mirren / THE QUEEN – The Queen – Miramax Films
The actor wrote a blog on his 
“Everyone’s very excited. Of course it brings a lot of attention to the show, and it’s a great part for Lindsay.”
Her obsession with couture, twiggy frame and primped appearance meant Victoria Beckham fitted right into Ugly Betty’s world of high fashion.
Preliminary figures from Nielsen Media Research put the audience for Sunday’s show, aired on Fox, at 13.1 million viewers. That’s three million fewer than for last year’s telecast, on NBC, and less than the record low 13.8 million three years ago on ABC.
