The Precious actress tells New York’s Hot 97 FM that it was her husband, Sidney Hicks, who encouraged her to live a healthier life. “It made me say [to myself], ‘OK sis, you got these babies. The twins [Jonathan and David] are 7, [stepson] Michael’s 9, Shalon’s 22. And I want to meet their babies. So, I said, ‘Let me stop being selfish, and eating everything.’ And I ate everything . . . I was a food junkie.”
Now, the Oscar winner is chronicling her daily exercise on Twitter and encouraging others to join her journey. “We can always get a quick fix. However what will be the long term effects,” she wrote Wednesday. She also works hard to get a minimum of 10,000 steps a day and 50 sit-ups.
And it has paid off.
MoNique has lost more than 80 pounds since the days she starred in the 1999 sitcom The Parkers. She says her goal is between 190 and 200. She’s amazingly close at 218.
Congrats!
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