Are you a skinny woman? If you said yes, some other women apparently consider you to be evil.
Not really, of course. It’s simply an exaggeration that once fueled the standup comedy of the performer known professionally as Mo’Nique.
Mo’Nique is a plus-sized woman, and makes no apologies for it. She has used her size as an asset, taking advice she says she once got from Martin Lawrence, to ignore people who would tell her what she couldn’t have.
As a result, Mo’Nique has won an Academy Award, and has been nominated for many honors, including Emmys and Grammys.
She’s been seen in dozens of movies, she starred as Nikki Parker in the TV series “The Parkers,” she had her own talk show, and in 2003 she wrote a book called Skinny Women Are Evil.
She and I met 1 day that spring to talk about her book.
So here now, from 2003, Mo’Nique.
Mo’Nique will be 58 next month. Her most recent movie role was in the supernatural horror film “The Deliverance” in 2024.