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Wendy’s Take on Vanity Fair’s Young Hollywood Cover

Friday February 19th, 2010

Race or Weight?

Everyone’s talking about Vanity Fair’s “Young Hollywood” cover that features all white and very thin Tinseltown stars.

Noticeably absent is Gabourey Sidibe, who is clearly the #1 breakout star of 2009 for her Oscar nominated performance in “Precious.”

Watch Wendy’s take on Gabourey being snubbed by Vanity Fair and tell us what you think.

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Tell Us: What do you think about Vanity Fair snubbing Oscar nominee Gabourey Sidibe from the Young Hollywood cover?

68 Comments

  1. Have any of you ever read Vanity Fair cover to cover?
    They seldom feature Blacks unless it had something to do with art or fashion or literature. Just not what their magazine is about and not their target audience.
    If she made a hole-in-one, I wouldn’t expect to see her on the cover of Golf Weekly.
    If she got engaged I would expect her to be on the cover of Modern Bride.
    I love Gabby, to me she is just a joy.
    I also understand demographics, and profit lines.
    Vanity Fair doesn’t owe her any apology. Personally, I like her attitude on the subject, and I am also happy to see her mentioned anywhere.
    She said that she “quickly got over it”, and I believe her. She has a positive personality.
    So who are we to focus on the negative, when she does not?

  2. Hollywood does not define who’s hot to me. I am a Black women and I know how Blacks are really thought of in Hollyweird. Vanity Fair was just being themselves.

    I don’t even read Vanity Fair and I do not know anyone who does…funny thing is I couldn’t name any of the white girls who are on that cover if you held a gun to my head.

  3. I am a young black woman who is trying to break into the music industry. But I am honestly concerned that I may be passed by not because of my talent but because I am a full figured black woman. Too many times on television have I seen skinny talentless white girls like Heidi Montag reach stardom for no reason. It is disheartening. I love Gaby and no matter what anyone in the industry says I agree with you Wendy. She was the breakout star of 2009 and has been nominated for an Oscar in her FIRST ROLE EVER! How many young white Hollywood stars can say that? So Vanity Fair can keep their covers. Whatever is for me is for me because God says so and I am going to keep on pushin’ my way to the top like Gaby. I will keep pushing until I am sitting on Wendy Williams couch being interviewed!

  4. I don`t think it was weight or her race that kept her from the cover. The cover featured up and coming actresses. I guarantee you`ll never see her in another film again. I think she got lucky getting precious.. She`s not an actress just someone that got lucky because she fit the mold.. trust me you`ll never see her in another movie.

  5. I think it was both race and weight. I noticed race a little bit more though.

  6. She wasn’t there and thats a darn shame….to the lady who acts as if just because your her size that gives you the right to mock her…maybe if you loved yourself more then you would support her more…she deserved to be on there and that chick from twilight can’t even act! i am the size of those women and i know and everyone know that as a fashion mag they like the size 0′s and the deathly skinny looking females..there are plenty of black actresses who could have gone u there sure but what about the Latina women and the African and the German and the Chinese and Japanese and the Italian … what about them … its not just so black and white

    HOW U DOOOINNN…

  7. I do not feel she was “left out” I was reading a big argument about this on yahoo. Of course that became a big race debate and totally spiraled out of control. I to agree with you when you said Keke Palmer could have been on that cover. Lets be totally real would she have fit in on that cover?! I am a black woman and I am so not offended that she was not on that cover. When she is on the books for another role we will see that she is truly up and coming in Hollywood. Just My Opinion!
    HOW U DOIN?!

  8. For me as a young black women I think this was a race thing. It should not matter how she look she an Oscar winner and if that was me I will have a lot to say to them. It just makes me mad when people try to play us young black women like we not good for hollywood when we are more!

  9. Why you made fun of Ashanti like that on Yesterday’s show? That was in poor taste. I mean, I always knew you weren’t into Ashanti, but have some sort of impartiality in hot topics!!! Yesterday’s show left me with a very bad taste in my mouth and it’s a shame because I think the show is very entertaining. Ashanti is a hard working singer/songwriter who for no apparent reason is constantly being dissed and dismissed for what I have no ides! She’s on her grind trying to make it and you guys just keep on knocking her down! WHY? What did she do to deserve such hate? I can’t conprehend why someone like Ashanti is constantly criticized for her talent,yet people with little to offer other than a hot mess(britney spears and Jersy shore) get so much praise? Let Ashanti be and stop the hate!

  10. Clearly putting Gabby in the mag and not on the cover is like telling her to go around to the back door and that she is not allowed to enter the white folks house through the front. YES, people it is about race, color and size. Right or wrong, that has always been the nature of Hollywood. As for Gabby, she doesn’t have to fade her skin or lose weight. She is talented just as she is. She will have to learn how to play the game if she wants to be in it. As for actors, I realize the phone rings and the scripts come after an Oscar, yet regardless, for black females in Hollyweird, they must not let the industry defiine who they are as people and talent, because that will only take them so far and they will be left feeling like a sale out anyway.

  11. HOWDY YA’LL DOIN from your REDNECK FAN in VA
    i don’t think its a race thing but a weight thing and a “click” like in highschool. i believe that they think cause she is big that she is just a fly by night actress. no i have not seen the movie but if she makes it to broadway she is here to stay. SO POO POO on STUPID PEOPLE

  12. i think that gabby is Great and Beauitiful. i think it was both race and weight. and its not fair to her. i think that it shouldnt matter about her size but i know that it does bc its a thing that bigger girls have to deal with on an everyday basis and not just in hollywood but everywhere.

    ashley from nc. How You Doin Wendy??!!!

  13. i think gabie definanetly should have been on the cover and even maybe keke should have been involved but what they did is soooo messed up that would even make me stop buying thier magazine

  14. I have no prob calling foul sistas, however; I believe the criteria was based on the # movies the starlets will appear in 2010. I do not recall that Gaby is appearing in 2010. Now, if you were to say the criteria was set to omit her, then you have a sound argument. Gaby is beautiful, she now has the $ to hire a nutritionist and trainer to ensure she is here for a long time.

  15. It was definitely a weight thing. I agree with the comment that Gabby just needs to prove it with winning the Oscar :o ). I think that Vanity Faire should have mixed it up with the races on the cover cause America and Zoë are shown when you fold out the entire cover.

  16. I think that it has everything to do with weight. I am sure that you have seen the “cop Out” movie or at least the previews… T Morgan says to B Willis something like- The President is Black, we make the decisions now!!!- that cracks me up every time I see it. GS deserves her pic in VF, but we still have a long way to go.

  17. This angers me! I am Native American, all those white, size 0, girls do not represent all of us! That magazine should be pulled and a major apology should be given to the entire world. Then we need to see a cover with all colors, shapes, and sizes. Then maybe I would read it again, just maybe!

  18. Lets be real… to some people.. being black is bad and when you add big and black… thats not a reality that some dont want to see. We have been brainwashed. But through it all, I think Gabby will be opening doors for others. She is so intelligent and well spoken.

  19. By the way Wendy, thank you for for being real and not being afraid to confront the injustices of this world! You go girl. Paula from Jersey

  20. Wendy, I couldn’t agree more. I was a manager for a well known clothing store that just specialized in plus size clothes for women. I dont think it has anything to do with color but her size. Its been way to long that the plus women has been ignored. I think its high time that the plus size ( women with curves, and baby got back is heard and noticed for their beauty. I was only a size 4-6 the whole 6 yrs that i worked for this company. But can I tell you, I wished for years that I could offer my man some back instead of bone. And my husband agrees. I now have gained some weight. Im 140 pounds and 5’2 and I love it. I now have curves, boobs and babys got back. More power to Gabby and every big women out there, the plus women is the real woman of today. Get ready world – the plus woman is here and proud of it.GO GABBY
    Paula from Jersey…..HOW YOU DOIN

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