{"id":10392,"date":"2011-11-18T21:03:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-18T21:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=10392"},"modified":"2014-10-26T22:42:15","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T03:42:15","slug":"queen-latifah-on-big-boobs-pimples-adoption-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/queen-latifah-on-big-boobs-pimples-adoption-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Queen Latifah on Big Boobs, Pimples, Adoption and More"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the heels of her new movie, Joyful Noise<\/a>, <\/em>Queen Latifah talks candidly to More<\/em> magazine <\/a>as the December\/January cover girl. She has come to terms with her imperfections, aging, and death while finding methods to the madness of actually being happy.\u00a0 . To read her entire feature, grab a copy of More magazine which hits newsstands Tuesday, November 22. Highlights include:<\/p>\n

On her \u201cassets\u201d <\/strong>Queen Latifah and Dolly Parton are costarring in a new movie, Joyful Noise, <\/em>which will be in theaters this December. \u201cCan you imagine?…Dolly Parton and Queen Latifah singing, in one movie? All those breasts! We wish you all the breasts!\u201d<\/p>\n

On having kids<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019m definitely going to adopt\u2014or have\u2014a child. I\u2019ve wanted to adopt since I was 17 or 18 years old.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolly Parton on Latifah<\/strong>: \u201cShe was fun to work with! She kind of towers over me, so we called each other Big and Small.\u201d<\/p>\n

On embracing her imperfections: \u201c<\/strong>People say, \u2018You have such beautiful skin!\u2019 But guess what? I get pimples, too. I mean, shit, I\u2019m a woman, I have hormones.<\/strong> Who knows what is going on? I\u2019ve just got to roll with it\u2026The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you\u2019re not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed by God. And when you try to be someone else, we don\u2019t get you.\u201d<\/p>\n

On competing with Oprah on a day-time talk show:<\/strong> \u201cI tried my best. But you can\u2019t beat Oprah at her game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Queen Latifah on her friendship with Chicago costar, Catherine Zeta-Jones<\/strong>: \u201cCZ! That\u2019s my girl. She\u2019s a rock star! Love her to death. Super family\u2014Michael, the kids, everybody. You have to understand, that\u2019s how she is\u2014it\u2019s \u2018check your ego at the door.\u2019 That\u2019s how everyone was on the Chicago <\/em>set.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catherine Zeta-Jones on Latifah<\/strong>: \u201cI adore her. She is funny, smart and beautiful. Her talent raises the bar of any project she\u2019s a part of.\u201d<\/p>\n

On being dirt poor and driving in a Flintstone-like car:<\/strong> \u201cWe had this car\u2014we used to call it the Flintstone car! It was a Datsun B210, and it had a hole in the floor where you could see the street! But that little B210 Honey Bee took us so many places.\u201d
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On how caring too much almost ruined her: <\/strong>In an attempt to fast-track their Flavor Unit management and film production company into the music business, she and business partner Shakim Compere, a childhood friend, grew it too quickly, hiring too many people and losing track of expenses. She says, \u201cShakim and I\u2014we had to have some tough love with ourselves<\/strong>. He\u2019s a very generous person. I\u2019m the same. So we were more concerned about taking care of everyone else<\/strong>, making sure the bills were paid, the payroll taxes, the health insurance. But we were the only two bringing in money! So we had to let a lot of people go, to restructure our situation and to detach emotionally.
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On not<\/em> being a diva: <\/strong>\u201cComing through my experience of being a young actor, when I had no power on the set and I was just kind of following everybody\u2019s lead? Sure, I saw the big \u2018whose balls are bigger\u2019 sessions. And I just felt that when I got to a position where I had to say-so, there was a way to set a tone.<\/strong> If I\u2019m not having fits, if I\u2019m not having tantrums, if I\u2019m not throwing a chair across the room? Probably no one else should be.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n

On getting older and plastic surgery<\/strong>: \u201cWhen I was a kid, I was always the one hanging with older cool people. I\u2019ve met so many people all through my life who made growing older look good. Look at Jamie Lee Curtis, not getting plastic surgery and not changing her hair.\u201d<\/p>\n

On<\/strong> her \u201cno regrets\u201d past: \u201c<\/strong>I don\u2019t have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, \u201cYou\u2019re going to be fine. It ain\u2019t that serious!\u2019 When you\u2019re young, it\u2019s like \u2018Oh my God, it\u2019s the end of the world!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

On losing her brother 20 years ago: <\/strong>In her 2009 album Persona<\/em>, she sings, \u201cWish I could share it all with Wink, and I can still see his face every time I blink.\u201d\u00a0 She adds, \u201cAs my Aunt Elaine says, you never get over it, but you get through it\u2026I think the most important thing I\u2019ve learned is to not stop living. I know for a fact that my brother would not want me to stay there, stuck in that misery. If the person you lost loved you like them? There\u2019s no way they would not want you to live your life to the maximum, to appreciate it, to go for your dreams, go for your goals.\u201d<\/p>\n

On lessons from her mom:<\/strong> \u201c[She] did the best with what she had and moved up and up and up\u2026No matter what our circumstances my mom taught me to carry myself with class. She told me to believe in myself but also helped me deal with rejection.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nikki Blonsky on Latifah, who filmed Hairspray<\/em> with<\/strong>: \u201cWorking with Queen Latifah was one of the best experiences of my life,\u201d she says.\u00a0 \u201cI learned so much from her, and she always made me laugh, whether we were filming at 4PM or 4AM. She\u2019s like the coolest big sister anyone could ask for!\u201d
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