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"  &amp;quot;Oh honey, you should really quit the business, it&amp;#039;s so image conscious.&amp;quot; During an appearance on Watch What Happens Live, Sidibe recalled an encounter with one of her Hollywood role models shortly before Precious and Sidibe&amp;#039;s ensuing fame (via HuffPo): &amp;quot;I met Joan Cusack, who is my favorite, favorite &amp;amp;#151; I love her &amp;amp;#151; but it was before I became [famous] or whatever. I was at some industry party, and she says, &amp;#039;Are you an actress?&amp;#039; And I said, &amp;#039;Yeah!&amp;#039; And she says, &amp;#039;Oh honey, you should really quit the business, it&amp;#039;s so image-conscious.&amp;#039; I think she really, really meant it in a good way... but I was like &amp;#039;Oh, please don&amp;#039;t tell me to quit my job!&amp;#039;&amp;quot; &amp;quot;[Sidibe&amp;#039;s] head is a balloon on the body of a zeppelin.&amp;quot; In November of 2009, Critic David Edelstein reviewed Precious for New York Magazine, writing that &amp;quot;[Sidibe&amp;amp;#146;s] head is a balloon on the body of a zeppelin, her cheeks so inflated they squash her eyes into slits. Her expression is either surly or unreadable. Even with her voice-over narration, you&amp;amp;#146;re meant to stare at her ebony face and see nothing.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Gabby... your weight is going to affect everything in your life.&amp;quot; In March 2010, Nutritionist, motivational speaker and personal trainer Susan Powter released a video &amp;amp;#151; a rant, really &amp;amp;#151; called &amp;amp;#147;Fuck the Right To Fat Girls,&amp;amp;#148; addressed specifically to Sidibe (via Jezebel).  Sample quote: &amp;quot;And let me tell you something, Gabby, because Gabby is the only one that matters here: Your weight is going to affect everything in your life. Every breath you take. Because a human body carrying that much fat is under the burden. Your heart is under a burden. That&amp;amp;#146;s real.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The only way she can... win that Oscar is by being active, fit and healthy.&amp;quot; In March 2010, Weight loss company AcaiSupply offered one year&amp;amp;#146;s worth of their product to Sidibe because &amp;quot;[they] want to help her maintain a healthy lifestyle... The only way [she] can reach [her] goal of someday winning that Oscar is by being active, fit and most of all, healthy,&amp;quot; reported PopEater.  &amp;quot;The most enormous, fat black chick I&amp;#039;ve ever seen.&amp;quot; In April 2010, Howard Stern discussed Sidibe and Precious on SiriusXM. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s the most enormous, fat black chick I&amp;#039;ve ever seen. She is enormous. Everyone&amp;#039;s pretending she&amp;#039;s a part of show business and she&amp;#039;s never going to be in another movie. She should have gotten the Best Actress award because she&amp;#039;s never going to have another shot. What movie is she gonna be in? [Sidibe supporter] Oprah [is] another liar, a filthy liar... She&amp;#039;s telling an enormous woman the size of a planet that she&amp;#039;s going to have a career.&amp;amp;#148; Sidibe&amp;#039;s mom Alice Tan Ridley&amp;#039;s response, (via Facebook): &amp;quot;He can see, you can see, I can see Gabby is a big girl. She&amp;amp;#146;s a big woman, so what&amp;amp;#146;s wrong with that? She&amp;amp;#146;s not like everyone else in the world...I don&amp;amp;#146;t see him giving jobs out to anybody so why should we care what he says? He might not hire her, but someone else will.&amp;quot; The controversial Elle cover: The September 2010 cover of Elle&amp;#039;s 25th Anniversary issue, featuring a close-up of Sidibe, came under fire for a number of reasons. The other women chosen for the special four-cover series, Amanda Seyfried, Lauren Conrad and Megan Fox, were featured in full-body shots. Elle&amp;#039;s statement: We have four separate covers this month, and Gabby&amp;amp;#146;s cover was not retouched any more or less than the others. We had 25 cover-worthy subjects in our portfolio and we chose Gabby because of who she is. We shot this as a story of exuberant young women changing the world. If you take a look at the portfolio, each of the women were shot in different ways and for different reasons.  Sidibe&amp;#039;s rep&amp;#039;s response: &amp;quot;Gabourey is absolutely thrilled to be on the cover of ELLE magazine&amp;amp;#146;s 25th anniversary issue.&amp;quot; Sidibe&amp;#039;s response: During a September 2011 appearance on The View, Barbara Walters asked Sidibe if there are any down sides to fame. &amp;quot;Public opinion,&amp;quot; Sidibe said, and then added, &amp;quot;The upside is that I&amp;#039;ve never felt more powerful. And I&amp;#039;m strong. And I&amp;#039;m amazing. And I know that.&amp;quot; [via Jezebel] &amp;quot;#Big #Scary.&amp;quot;In October 2013, American Horror Story: Coven viewers went after Sidibe&amp;#039;s weight (who plays human voodoo doll Queenie this season) pretty mercilessly, according to Bustle, with comments like &amp;quot;I am going to lose sleep over watching Gabourey Sidibe masturbate tonight...me &amp;amp; my remote control need therapy...&amp;amp;#148; &amp;amp;#147;how can gabourey sidibe even reach her vagina to masturbate.&amp;amp;#148; They used hashtags like #big and #scary. Sidibe&amp;#039;s response, via Parade Magazine: &amp;quot;I was born to stand out. I don&amp;#039;t care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That&amp;#039;s not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.&amp;quot;  After Sidibe walked the Golden Globes 2014 red carpet in January, Twitter trolls instantly pounced on her weight and choice of dress (which was lovely, incidentally).  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