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Q. You've always talked about how heavily you rely on your mother's counsel. Sum up her best advice in three sentences.
A. Believe in yourself. Stay in your own lane. There's only one you.
Q. Share a family beauty secret.
A. My grandmother's skin was beautiful. I asked her how she did it, and she said, "I'll tell you what I do: Take a little baking soda, put it in the palm of your hand with a little warm water, and just rub it on your face. It naturally exfoliates."
Q. What did you take into consideration when you agreed to become the new face of Jenny Craig?
A. If anything, I was worried about alienating my big girls. I didn't want them to think, Hey, she's leaving us. But if I can be an example of loving yourself regardless of what you look like, I can be an example of loving yourself and being healthier.
Q. Would we find diet food in the studio for your upcoming album?
A. I told my partner, Shakim, "If I'm doing it, we're all doing it together." Everywhere I went, I had my Jenny Craig with me. At three o' clock in the morning, we're all hungry, but we have healthy stuff. It became slang in the studio: "What's up with the JC?" When I made my goal weight, I texted them, "goal weight," and everybody was like, "Yeahhh!"
Q. You're working on your own line of clothing for bigger women. How do you feel about the term "plus size"?
A. I don't like it. The majority of women are plus size. The other ones [should be called] less than plus.
Q. Since you're a Queen, how would you prefer to be immortalized-on currency, on a postage stamp, or in an oil portrait hanging in a museum?
A. I love a good museum. As long as it's a really popular one and I'm in a section with lots of light and visitors. Put me in the pop art section.
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