Real Oscar Nominees Have Curves

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For some actresses, the road to the Oscars is a shapely one. While Hollywood often grants its heaviest awards to its wispiest actresses, some voluptuous women consistently steal the show. Little Children star Kate Winslet, 31, clad in a figure-hugging mint green Valentino gown, acknowledged that she's a "record-breaker," winning more Oscar nominations for her generation than any of her pint-sized contemporaries."It's amazing. This kind of stuff isn't supposed to happen to someone like me who comes from a small town and was told I was only going to get parts for fat girls," she said. Devil Wears Prada nominee Meryl Streep can be equally proud to throw her Oscar weight around. The 57-year-old actress has been nominated 14 times."And I'm a size 14, so it all matches," she said. Then there was Jennifer Hudson, 25, who put on 20-plus pounds for her Oscar-nominated role as Effie in DreamGirls. Hudson said she slimmed down for the red carpet the old fashioned way: hard, hard work."I worked with my trainer, LaFonza Alston in Chicago through the summer," she told Ryan Seacrest during a red carpet interview. "I'd get up at 4 in the morning, go running for an hour and then go back to the gym at one o'clock."Hudson dropped 25 pounds by eating salads, grilled chicken and nuts – and by making sure her food portions were no bigger than her hand. "You've got to work for it," she says. "And I'm a firm believer: If it's not worth working hard for, it's not worth working at all."