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Carey's film comeback was Jackson's role
The film role that will put Mariah Carey back on the big screen originally belonged
to Janet Jackson. Jackson has revealed she gained almost half her body weight to play
a Southern waitress in Tennessee and weighed in at 180 pounds (82 kilograms), but had
to pass on the project when filming schedules started to interfere with her pop comeback.
The singer confesses she was preparing for the unflattering role when she was snapped
looking overweight and sluggish in tabloid photos at the end of 2005, but she was sworn
to secrecy about the film. Jackson, who recently turned 40, has since shed the extra
weight thanks to a hardcore fitness regime.
She says, "I put on the pounds for a film I was to do with Lee Daniels, the producer
of Monster's Ball, which a lot of people didn't know. They (producers) wanted a
full-figured woman. She's from the South, a waitress... They wanted to see me in a
different light, as a heavier woman. I was excited about it."
"(I ate) whatever I desired: 'Ooh, that looks good, give me that piece of cake!' That
was the fun part. They had to push the film back. The timing didn't quite work with
trying to finish my album, and unfortunately I wasn't able to do the film." Carey has
since taken over the role.
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