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Amber Riley
We fell in love with singer-songwriter Amber Patrice Riley when she played Mercedes Jones on the television series Glee. She performed an“ I Will Always Love You” tribute to Whitney Houston days after Houston’ s untimely death. Riley went on to become the first African American woman to win Dancing With the Stars. She is still sexy and curvy, but experienced a significant weight loss due to health issues, as well as the strenuous rehearsal routine for DWTS.
Anansa Sims
Anansa Sims is the daughter of supermodel, Beverly Johnson. Although more curvy than overweight, Sims is proud to fall into the plus-size model category.“ My mom contributed so much to society by showing that black is beautiful. Now I realize my contribution can be being a real-size or normal-size model, showing women that it is OK to have some meat on your bones and it is OK to love yourself that way,” Sims said.
Shonda Lynn Rhimes
is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and head of her own production company, ShondaLand. Rhimes has become a household name since creating Grey’ s Anatomy, and the highly addictive Scandal television series. She is also the executive producer of the legal drama, How to Get Away with Murder. ABC has also picked up her new drama, The Catch, for their 2015-2016 season. Thanks to Rhimes, ABC has a“ Thank God It’ s Thursday”(“ TGIT”) lineup of her shows. Since Rhimes represents as a plus-size woman of power, we’ d like to think“ TGIT” actually stands
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