Actress Gabourey Sidibe, one of the stars of the musical hit show (and one of the only shows that has gotten me to watch TV in recent years), Empire, has just let the cat outta the bag regarding her weight loss. If you’ve missed our previous report, our girl, Gabby, has been like the incredibly shrinking Susan for the past ten months or so, but she never revealed, nor acknowledged her weight until now.

In her recent interview with People, Gabby discussed portions of her upcoming memoir, This Is Just My Face, where she revealed the surgery and the major health diagnosis she’s kept secret for almost a year. Here’s what People reported:

“I just didn’t want to worry,” Sidibe, 33, tells PEOPLE of her decision to get laproscopic bariatric surgery after she and her older brother Ahmed, 34, were diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. “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.”

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On What Her Doctor Told Her To Help Make Her Final Decision:

“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.”

Her Revelation That She Was Already Beautiful As Is:

“It has taken me years to realize that what I was born with is all beautiful,” she writes in her book. “I did not get this surgery to be beautiful. I did it so I can walk around comfortably in heels. I want to do a cartwheel. I want not to be in pain every time I walk up a flight of stairs.”

“I have a goal right now, and I’m almost there,” she says. “And then once I’ve got it, I’ll set another. But my starting weight and my goal weight, they’re personal. If too many people are involved, I’ll shut down.”

“I know I’m beautiful in my current face and my current body. What I don’t know about is the next body,” she writes her in This Is Just My Face. “I admit it, I hope to God I don’t get skinny. If I could lose enough to just be a little chubby, I’ll be over the moon! Will I still be beautiful then? S—. Probably. My beauty doesn’t come from a mirror. It never will.”

“I Was In A War With My Body For A Long Time:

“There’s nothing ugly about me. Anyone trying to convince me that I am — and it’s usually me — is wasting her time,” she says. “I was in a war with my body for a long time. If I’d started treating it better sooner, I wouldn’t have spent so many years hating myself. But I love my body now.

We’re giving Gabby a hand clap and old school fist bump for taking control of her health and for learning to be comfortable in her skin regradless what society’s standard of beauty said she should be. Great work Ms. Sidibe!

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