Empire Actress, Gabourey Sidibe took action for her health late last year when she underwent a weight loss surgery procedure. She has for the first time opened up about it in her new memoire, "This is just my face: Try not to stare" In an interview with PEOPLE says the wake up call came when she and her brother, Ahmed were diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.
“I just didn’t want to worry,” the 33 year old star tells People magazine.
“I truly didn’t want to worry about all the effects that go along with diabetes. I genuinely [would] worry all the time about losing my toes.”
The star — who rose to fame playing the titular role in Precious in 2009 — tried for more than a decade to lose weight naturally before opting for the procedure. And in May of 2016, she secretly went under the knife.
“My surgeon said they’d cut my stomach in half. This would limit my hunger and capacity to eat. My brain chemistry would change and I’d want to eat healthier. I’ll take it! My lifelong relationship with food had to change,” she writes in her wise, witty and unapologetic memoir, out in May.
“The surgery wasn’t the easy way out,” she says. “I wasn’t cheating by getting it done. I wouldn’t have been able to lose as much as I’ve lost without it.”
Since the procedure, Sidibe has changed her eating habits — working with a nutritionist — and upped her fitness regimen, working out with a trainer, swimming and riding a tricycle around the Empire set
See more pictures of the much slimmer Empire Star below
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