{"title":"Gabourey Sidibe","description":"GABOUREY SIDIBE is an award-winning actress who is best known for the title role of Precious. She has since starred in American Horror Story: Coven, Difficult People, and as Becky on Fox's smash-hit sensation Empire, and recently made her directorial debut with the short film The Tale of Four. She was born in Brooklyn and raised in Harlem, New York.","products":[{"product_id":"this-is-just-my-face-try-not-to-stare-paperback","title":"This Is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Oscar-nominated \u003cem\u003ePrecious\u003c\/em\u003e star and \u003cem\u003eEmpire \u003c\/em\u003eactress delivers a riveting memoir that is wise, complex, smart, funny, and breaks the mold, just like Sidibe, herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eGabourey Sidibe - \"Gabby\" to her legion of fans - skyrocketed to international fame in 2009 when she played the leading role in Lee Daniels' acclaimed movie \u003cem\u003ePrecious\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cem\u003eIn This Is Just My Face\u003c\/em\u003e, she shares a one-of-a-kind life story in a voice as fresh and challenging as many of the unique characters she's played onscreen. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith full-throttle honesty, Sidibe paints her Bed-Stuy\/Harlem family life with a polygamous father and a gifted mother who supports her two children by singing in the subway. Sidibe tells the engrossing, inspiring story of her first job as a phone sex \"talker\". And she shares her unconventional (of course!) rise to fame as a movie star alongside \"a superstar cast of rich people who lived in mansions and had their own private islands and amazing careers while I lived in my mom's apartment.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSidibe's memoir hits hard with self-knowing dispatches on friendship, depression, celebrity, haters, fashion, race, and weight (\"If I could just get the world to see me the way I see myself,\" she writes, \"would my body still be a thing you walked away thinking about?\"). \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIrreverent, hilarious, and untraditional, \u003cem\u003eThis Is Just My Face\u003c\/em\u003e will resonate with anyone who has ever felt different and with anyone who has ever felt inspired to make a dream come true.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51377347559647,"sku":"9781328915801","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/T38eup4kON9781328915801.webp?v=1789232859"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/gabourey-sidibe.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}