Has Jennifer Hudson Gained Weight?
Usually when a celebrity makes some sort of weight or diet-related statement, I remember it.
I am now remembering that Jennifer Hudson (from American Idol and Dreamgirls) claimed to be on a slimming diet several months ago - March of this year to be exact.
However, it looks as though she has gained weight, not lost it…
March 2007:
Now:
What do you all think - has she gained, lost or stayed the same?
More photos of Jennifer at the VMA’s below.
72 Responses to “Has Jennifer Hudson Gained Weight?”
By shoshanna on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I never notice with her amount of talent…
By Ashley on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think its just the outfit. She probably thought it would be flattering because of the emire waist created by the belt, but it just looks a little sloppy.
By cheesecake on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Maybe a little weight gain. But it may just be the clothes that she is wearing.
By denise on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
If people are willing to call Jenna Jameson ‘disgusting’, ’skeletal’, ‘unwomanly’ etc. etc..then it swings the other way too.
Jennifer is fat and it looks gross.
By phoebes on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Is she obese? Because that weight cannot be healthy. Does she eat fried chicken all the time or something? She needs to work out!
By Sylvie on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think she looks the same.
By Jei on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, it looks like she put on a few. Then again, it’s kind of hard for me to get past her atrocious hairstyle in those VMA pics.
By Miss M on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Yes, I think she looks the same but she needs to lose weight.
By Sadahe on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think she lost weight sometime around summer but has it gained back since. However the dress is just horrible and does nothing for her.
By breads on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she has always been a big/fat girl, and looks fab anyway
By Serendipity on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I personally can’t see any gain or loss. She looks like she decided upon a dress that didn’t squeeze her like 5 lbs of sausage in a 4 lb sack, but went to the other extreme. She needs a stylist, n’est pas?
By tim jones on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
She is pretty stunning.
By Oksana on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
her wig is ugly and she is really FAT
By yahright on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she looks around the same to me, she can lose a little weight, which I am sure she will. Funny how she is not healthy, but some of you people think Kelly Clarkson is…hmmmm
Kelly is much bigger than this woman here. People who say that she has no talent…can you sing? are you a celebrity? Does anyone know you, other than your immediate family?
I didn’t think so :-p
By MIZZZII on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she looks around the same to me, she can lose a little weight, which I am sure she will. Funny how she is not healthy, but some of you people think Kelly Clarkson is…hmmmm
Kelly is much bigger than this woman here. People who say that she has no talent…can you sing? are you a celebrity? Does anyone know you, other than your immediate family?
I didn’t think so :-p
By Erica on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think she looks the same and it’s just the dresses that make her look different. She’s not really that fat. She’s a bit overweight but she’s also large boned. You can still see her collarbones, unlike Kelly Clarkson who probably wears the same size but has tons more bodyfat.
By Jodi on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I don’t think so. I think she had different stylists for the two occasions. She should fire the more recent one.
By JustMe on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think it’s the dress.
By hvnlycrtr on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Terrible hair and dress in the second pics! Beautiful face and voice though, and I can’t imagine her skinny. She carries her weight really well.
By olivia on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
She looks the same to me….
By Jodi on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I dunno … am I the only one — other than tim jones, of course! — who doesn’t WANT her to be skinny? Something would just look WRONG then.
By Razorback on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
She sure has gained weight since the day she bought that dress. She still looks good.
By FW on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she looks bout the same but maybe a little less toned - next to that skinny Thicke guy she’ll look heavier - plus she was very slicky styled in the first pic, and her outfit and hair were more billowy in the second pic
By LIZ on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
it looks like she gained weight, i mean you can see it clearly in her face
By Anon on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Jodi, I’m with you - I don’t want her to be skinny because this seems to be a natural weight for Jennifer. She’s been about the same weight since she got on American Idol. And she always dresses according to her shape and size.
Plus I don’t think she’s any bigger that Beyonce she just has a different shape.
Fat & looks gross? Harsh! You wanna see fat & gross, check out Beth Ditto.
By tim jones on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Man I wish I could post some pictures of my ex girlfriends or women I find very attractive. You guys would flip out. I could probably bathe in the hyperbole and expletives.
By Edan on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think she is stunning. I wouldn’t want to be that weight, but she looks beautiful.
I am curious as to why celebrities seem to be such big fans of the Belted Garbage Bag Gown.
“Oh dahling, Hefty Couture is all the rage in gay Paree, don’t you know? Mmmyess, you look gooooorgeous dahling.”
By Kittah on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Looks like a 5-10 lbs gain, if anything. Simply put, this girl is overweight. Do we really believe she stuck to her plan? I hate it when celebrities annouce their diet plans and goals and such, and don’t achieve them! Don’t get me wrong, it’s not always easy to achieve, but why discuss it with the world and risk looking like a fool afterwards if it doesn’t get done? Look at Tyra, for example. She quietly lost weight, but had a back up plan. If she wouldn’t have lost, she could continue being “proud of her curves” as she previously stated. Same with Jessica Simpson. Remember her saying “Yeah, I’m fat. But so what? I am happy!”? Then, what did she do? And can anyone recall her discussing her diet / exercise plans? Nope. Ok, my rant is finished.
By Dee on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
She has definitely gained. At the BET Awards she wore a short slinky white dress with no support and it looked horrrible. She said she’d hired a trainer and had been working out twice a day, but I guess that’s stopped. She just got a part in the Sex & The City movie, so I wonder is she going to try and lose for that.
By darktuner18 on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
in the second pics at the MVA she looks like an obese kelly rowland ( which that can’t be true cause kelly is so thin ! ) lo(o)se weight girl (no joke with nelly “fatass” furtado )
By Jodi on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Tim jones, you can always upload the photos to a Flickr or Photobucket account, and we could see your ladies.
As I’ve said before, NOT EVERYONE is “meant” to be thin. And not everyone LOOKS good or FEELS good thin. I have quite a few friends who are “larger”, and they look and feel great. They have no desire to try to be smaller or to feel less than fabulous — either physically or mentally/emotionally.
By lambman on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she could stand to loose some weight.
But everytime I see her I’m just so over-come with annoyance that she won an Oscar for singing its really all I can think about. Kate Winslet and Julianne Moore don’t have Oscars and this chick does, just because she sang one freaking song really, really, really well. LAME
By Oksana on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I dont understand why most of you guys say you dont want her to be skinny. Dont you want her to be healthy? She is overweight now and not healthy looking at all she needs to lose some of weight so at least she will be a healthy woman and not a fat cow. I dont understand why this support for fat women. I think women should not be too skinny but being fat is not better for you than being too skinny I would say it is even worse for your health.
By barney on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
A few years ago Jennifer worked for Burger King.
She was fired from that job. It could have been that she was fired for eating too much. Just like the other fast foods BK has some high calorie meals. It is possible that since she became famous BK gave her a lifetime all you can eat membership. It appears to be quite obvious that Jennifer is taking them up on their offer. Jennifer should talk to Jenna J and talk her into eating high calorie fast foods.
By tim jones on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Oksana,
yes i want her to be fat and unhealthy. I want her to be miserable. You see, I am a doctor, and a good friend of mine is a therapist. If Ms. Hudson continues to be overweight, ie unhealthy and sad, my friend and I can make more money.
By Jodi on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Oksana, I don’t want her to be skinny becaus it is probably not NATURAL for her to be skinny. I think she looks very healthy, and she probably is. I know a LOT of women this size who are very healthy and happy.
Tim jones, you just made me smirk and raise my eyebrow!
By Joelle on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Her hair and make-up look nice, but I think she would look better if she lost some weight.
By Golden on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Phoebes, even though I’m kinda far from you I just had to say something about the comment you made. Asking if she eats “fried chicken all the time” sounds incredibly mean-spirited and ignorant. Be careful of what you say b/c words can hurt even if you don’t mean for them to, unless you do…
And on a lighter note, I LOVE Robin Thicke but am not a fan of his stage partner…she and the rest of America could stand to get a little bit healthier.
By kate on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she may be a bit heavier, but i think she carries it very well. it is unhealthy, yes, but she looks good, i think.
By Erin on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she looks the same.
By gia on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she looks the same. i think she is fine. not everyone needs to be tiny to be pretty or successful.
By Shannon on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Juicy Lucy has gained some weight!
By Anon on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Oksana, there are fat women who get that way from eating really large portions of very unhealthy food and not excercising. I think some of us don’t think that’s what she’s all about. Her weight gain/loss seems to be in the normal range of +/- 2-3% of body weight.
Look, Britney Spears is not as big as Jennifer Hudson, but clearly she is not a healthy eater so I’m more likely call her “fat” than Jennifer. Not because she’s big, but because she’s above her natural weight from eating garbage and drinking!
It’s really wrong that the support for ‘big’ women gets mixed up with eat whatever you want and be fat. I think the message really should be: As long as you are eating a balanced diet & lead a healthy lifestyle, it doesn’t matter what your size is.
By MelodySoul on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I don’t think she has gained. For anyone calling her obese let’s be realistic, she is overweight yes but not obese. I would put her at a size 14. I wouldn’t want to see her get any bigger but healthy does come in different shapes and sizes. Look at plus size models, most of them work out and watch what they eat but they are just not meant to be thin.
By Persephone on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
LOL @ Tim Jones.
I really wish there were more women that were in Hollywood that were in between sizes. It seems like you have to be at the extremes to get any attention.
She looks like she has gained. I never thought that she was going to lose much weight anyway. She does not look like she has a small frame so she was not meant to be super thin. She does look like she is carrying too much weight on her body. She would look better if she lost at least 15 pounds.
By poops on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Of course she’s gained weight. Why? ‘Cause she’s a fucking pig.
By Karma on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I find her utterly boring, but I’ll agree with some of you that she wouldn’t look good skinny. I have a feeling if she DID lose weight, her head and face would remain enormous.
By Prinzz on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
‘I never notice with her amount of talent…’
Awwwwwwwwwwwwww.
By Agnes on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Yes, she’s gained a bit.
By Paris on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think she looks beautiful. No matter is she is fat or skinny. All you guys saying that she is fat and disgusting, let the table turn on you and somebody says that about you. Leave her alone and pretty much fuck off. She has way too much talent and that should be the main forcus.
By Ultra skinny girl on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Beyoncé might look like that soon..like Jennifer Hudson,who is one meal away from exploading..
By Mo on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
And every pound is so sexy and beautiful. One of the hottest young women around!
By been there done that on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think she may have gained a few, she certainly hasnt lost anything. That awful shapless, colorless sack isnt doing her any favors either.
By medchick on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
I think that she looks about the same. I think that the dress shw wore in the 1st pic is more form fitting and therefore makes her appear slimmer than the other dress.
By mrs. norton on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
ugh that wig
By butterfly on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
Tim Jones rocks. That is all.
By shady on Sep 13, 2007 | Reply
she is soo blah
By Just the facts ma'am! on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
The dress in the first pic is so tight that it looks like it is in danger of exploding. But, it is a flattering cut and dark color which tends to make you look thinner. Then you have the gold sack in the second pic along with her sagging mammaries-neither of which is flattering to big gals. 3 words: FULL LENGTH MIRROR.
By SupermodelSuzie on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
Yup, she’s gained. She strikes me as the type of girlwho gain’s weight very easily. Almost as if her body naturally wants to be heavier then average.
By Lima on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
looks the same …
FAT
By LaLa on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
I agree with Denise. Hudson is a fatty major!
By Persephone on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
No the answer is a 360 degree mirror.
Some people just need more help. This outfit the J. Hudson is wearing needs to experience of being able to see yourself from all angles to make a proper decision.
By Shelly on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
She is heavy, but not disgustingly heavy. There are plenty of people who pull off her body type very well… She just doesn’t know how to dress herself. She’d look great if she could figure out how to hide her flaws (she should never be wearing something tight around the stomach, like in that first picture, and she should use some sort of sleeve to cover her upper arms), and accentuate her better parts (a haircut to frame her beautiful face, and something to accentuate her hourglass-ish figure… I think a belt like that would be great with a more flattering shirt/dress).
By baybaygurl on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
who cares?
By Bella on Sep 14, 2007 | Reply
She has mos def. gained weight…i noticed it at the VMAs
By healthy girl on Sep 15, 2007 | Reply
Tim Jones—-
I’m just really curious what you see in larger woman,
It’s unique that you like large curves and don’t mind rolls…I’m not saying it’s bad, in fact I think it’s awesome….I thought guys only liked thin girlz???
By shoshana on Sep 15, 2007 | Reply
. . . . Yes, she is overweight, maybe even clinically obese. I am. I weigh 200 lbs. and I am 5′4. But I don’t think that I look as big as her. But I am still obese. You people put all kinds of moral and character judgments on obesity, you shouldn’t. I have impaired glucose metabolism so my body holds on to weight more than regular people. You never know, she could have a weight affecting condition. Either way, yes and without moral judgements, she is fat.
By Chop_Chop on Sep 15, 2007 | Reply
she just looks sloppy and is still fat. and really mad too for some reason..lol
like she can read the comments below…
By Elaine on Sep 15, 2007 | Reply
Girlfriend is big boned and meant to be heavy.
By jacky on Sep 15, 2007 | Reply
I agree, that weight looks good on her. Maybe she is overweight, but I certainly don’t think she is obese. She looks just built this way. I think it is healthier for her to stay this way ( if she is active and eat relativly well), than to start doing all sorts of diets and starvation plans to be skinny. Doing the yoyo with your weight is really unhealty. If she is happy like this, she should just stay that size.
Oksana, she might just be in better health than a lot of unaturally skinny-skinny celebrities like nicole ritchie for instance.
By Trice 05 on Sep 17, 2007 | Reply
Yaw’ll are so hard. Yes she is a voluptious female. But to call her fat and ugly that is hard. I feel from the pix above, she made the right choice in the outfit she chose. I feel she looks better in loose clothes than tight fitting clothes. Be good people and stop being so judgemental.
By Betterthanyou on Nov 26, 2007 | Reply
I think you guys are being super harsh…she is NOT obese but she is overweight and it looks like her frame is meant to be larger than average. It actually does not look that bad, but I do think she needs a better stylist to choose clothing that will help her look better. Why can’t people just accept it and move on? She is a very talented actress and singer, apparently her size has gotten her thus far so I think as long as she is a healthy eater, it should not matter what size she is unless it is deadly whether it be too big or thin. Stop hating on her folks…