The 62-year-old “Dreamgirls” diva has overcome weight struggles, career setbacks and a multiple sclerosis diagnosis.
in her Tony-winning role as Effie White in “Dreamgirls,” Jennifer Holliday is still here, folks.
Jennifer Holliday in 2014. By then, she had lost some 200 pounds since her blockbuster Broadway performance in “Dreamgirls.”Ben Harney , Jennifer Holliday, Liliane Montevecchi and Cleavant Derricks won Tony Awards in 1982.Holliday will be belting out “And I Am Telling You” — along with other show tunes and standards — when she makes her return to Broadway for a mini residencythat runs Tuesday through Feb. 26.
“A lot of the association with Effie related to the weight and feeling not attractive,” she said. “And when I first lost the weight [in 1990], a lot of people were upset with me. They were like, ‘Oh, you are betraying yourself by losing weight.’ Eventold me that I shouldn’t lose weight because that’s what I’m known for. She said that I shouldn’t lose weight because they tried to make her fix her nose when she got in the business and that the things that we are associated with make us us.
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