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"   Some celebrity award show speeches leave us utterly baffled - you know the ones where you must take to Twitter to express your bemusement? But then there are those that use that great platform to really get a message across and Gabourey Sidibe has done just that with her beautiful words on confidence.  The American Horror Story star spoke out at the Gloria Awards and Gala and delivered something so inspirational in response to those who ask how she&amp;#039;s so confident.  She said: &amp;quot;&amp;#039;Gabourey, how are you so confident?&amp;#039; It&amp;#039;s not easy. It&amp;#039;s hard to get dressed up for award shows and red carpets when I know I will be made fun of because of my weight. There&amp;#039;s always a big chance if I wear purple, I will be compared to Barney. If I wear white, a frozen turkey. And if I wear red, that picture of Kool-Aid that says, &amp;quot;Oh, yeah!&amp;quot; Twitter will blow up with nasty comments about how the recent earthquake was caused by me running to a hot dog cart or something.  &amp;quot;And &amp;quot;Diet or Die?&amp;quot; [She gives the finger to that] This is what I deal with every time I put on a dress. This is what I deal with every time someone takes a picture of me. Sometimes when I&amp;#039;m being interviewed by a fashion reporter, I can see it in her eyes, &amp;quot;How is she getting away with this? Why is she so confident? How does she deal with that body? Oh my God, I&amp;#039;m going to catch fat!&amp;quot; A classy response to the haters and trolls that criticise her weight, the actress went on to explain how her upbringing affected her life. Being bullied at school, she would then come home to more criticism, but her turning point was moving in with her aunt, a feminist, activist and good friend of Gloria Steinem. Gabourey revealed a portrait of the two renewed her strength and hope, and when she walked in and out the door each day, she raised her fist and marched on.  And her final response on how she turned bad treatment into a positive? It speaks to anyone who has faced doubters in their life.  &amp;quot;&amp;#039;How are you so confident?&amp;#039; &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m an asshole!&amp;#039; Okay? It&amp;#039;s my good time, and my good life, despite what you think of me. I live my life, because I dare. I dare to show up when everyone else might hide their faces and hide their bodies in shame. I show up because I&amp;#039;m an asshole, and I want to have a good time. And my mother and my father love me. They wanted the best life for me, and they didn&amp;#039;t know how to verbalize it. And I get it. I really do. They were better parents to me than they had themselves.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m grateful to them, and to my fifth grade class, because if they hadn&amp;#039;t made me cry, I wouldn&amp;#039;t be able to cry on cue now. [Dabs tears] If I hadn&amp;#039;t been told I was garbage, I wouldn&amp;#039;t have learned how to show people I&amp;#039;m talented. And if everyone had always laughed at my jokes, I wouldn&amp;#039;t have figured out how to be so funny. If they hadn&amp;#039;t told me I was ugly, I never would have searched for my beauty. And if they hadn&amp;#039;t tried to break me down, I wouldn&amp;#039;t know that I&amp;#039;m unbreakable. [Dabs tears] So when you ask me how I&amp;#039;m so confident, I know what you&amp;#039;re really asking me: how could someone like me be confident? Go ask Rihanna, asshole!&amp;quot; More inspirational reads: BEYONC\u00C9: &amp;quot;THERE&amp;#039;S TOO MUCH PRESSURE ON WOMEN TO BE BEAUTIFUL&amp;quot; LEYAH SHANKS POSES NAKED FOR COSMOPOLITAN TO INSPIRE BODY CONFIDENCE "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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