{"id":93148,"date":"2017-03-08T21:32:46","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T02:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=93148"},"modified":"2017-03-08T21:32:46","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T02:32:46","slug":"gabourey-sidibe-reveals-weight-loss-surgery-in-new-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/03\/08\/gabourey-sidibe-reveals-weight-loss-surgery-in-new-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabourey Sidibe reveals weight loss surgery in new memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_93152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93152\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Gabourey_Sidibe_at_PaleyFest_2014_-_13491368805.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-93152\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Gabourey_Sidibe_at_PaleyFest_2014_-_13491368805.jpg\" alt=\"Gabourey Sidibe says she had weight-loss surgery last year after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. (Photo: Dominick D\/ wikipedia)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Gabourey_Sidibe_at_PaleyFest_2014_-_13491368805.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Gabourey_Sidibe_at_PaleyFest_2014_-_13491368805-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Gabourey_Sidibe_at_PaleyFest_2014_-_13491368805-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Gabourey_Sidibe_at_PaleyFest_2014_-_13491368805-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabourey Sidibe says she had weight-loss surgery last year after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\">Dominick D\/ wikipedia<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013Gabourey Sidibe says she had weight-loss surgery last year after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>In an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir published Wednesday by People magazine, the Oscar-nominated actress says she underwent the bariatric procedure in May.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old \u201cEmpire\u201d star says she did not have the surgery to be beautiful but to improve her health and move with more ease.<\/p>\n<p>Surgery \u201cwasn&#8217;t the easy way out,\u201d she says, adding that she has changed her eating habits and is working with a trainer. And despite her continuing weight loss, Sidibe says her \u201cbeauty doesn&#8217;t come from a mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sidibe shared a link to the People article from her verified Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>Her book, \u201cThis is Just My Face: Try Not to Stare,\u201d will be published in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2013Gabourey Sidibe says she had weight-loss surgery last year after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. In an &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":93152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[16360,16361],"class_list":["post-93148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-gabourey-sidibe","tag-weight-loss","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}