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Anika Noni Rose: Jennifer Hudson's Baby Will Be 'Much Loved'
Originally posted 06/09/2009 01:35PM
Dreamgirls star Anika Noni Rose says Jennifer Hudson will be the perfect mother.
"She will be a great, amazing and loving mom," Rose told PEOPLE at a party for Grey's Anatomy star Chandra Wilson's Broadway performance in Chicago on Monday in New York. "Having seen her with babies myself, that baby of hers is going to have a good time and be much loved."
The Tony winner and star of HBO's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency says Hudson will ease into motherly duties. "She loves babies and now that she going to be a mother herself, this experience is going to be fun and rewarding for her. She will have no problems taking on the responsibilities."
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Report: Jennifer Hudson Is Pregnant
Originally posted 05/31/2009 05:45PM
Grammy-winning singer and Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson can add mom-to-be to her resume after a weekend baby shower in her honor was held in downtown Chicago, the Chicago Tribune reports.
Felicia Fields, a longtime friend of the Hudson, confirmed to the paper that the event happened on Saturday.
"It was a baby shower, a quiet gathering of friends and mostly family," Fields, also a singer and actress, said of a gathering in a relative's home. "They're really trying to keep it kind of quiet."
She added: "It was a nice time that we had."
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Jennifer Hudson Reveals Memories of Her Slain Mother
Originally posted 05/13/2009 06:15PM
Barely seven months after her mother, brother and nephew were murdered in Chicago, Jennifer Hudson is opening up about her relationship with her mom, Darnell Donerson.
"I was always a mama's baby," Hudson tells Essence in the magazine's June cover story. "I'd go and sleep in her bed until I was 15 years old."
The singer's fiancé David Otunga tells the magazine that one of Hudson's biggest concerns after she decided to throw herself back into work – she's promoting her debut album and touring with Robin Thicke – was the thought of having to answer questions about the loss of her family.
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Jennifer Hudson's Encore Wedding Proposal
Originally posted 05/07/2009 08:45PM
Five months after boyfriend David Otunga proposed to Jennifer Hudson on her 27th birthday, she returned the gesture with a surprise of her own: a proposal on Otunga's birthday.
The Grammy-winning singer did it last month with style, presenting Otunga – a Harvard-educated-lawyer-turned-pro-wrestler – with a personally designed Neil Lane engagement ring rocking out at 5 carats.
"Jennifer wanted to give him something really special when she asked David to marry her," says Lane, who worked with Hudson for months to design the ring. "It was very sentimental and romantic ... They are really in love."
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Jennifer Hudson: 'I Don't Want You to Cry'
Originally posted 04/02/2009 12:20PM
Four months after her mother, brother and nephew were viciously murdered, Jennifer Hudson is getting back to business, hitting the road with Robin Thicke. But of course she's still coping with the pain of her family tragedy.
"It was so, so horrible what happened, and she's still hurting," says Hudson's childhood friend and longtime assistant Walter Williams III in this week's Entertainment Weekly cover story. "But she's a strong girl and she knows her family is in a better place. I really think she's going to be okay."
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Jennifer Hudson's Wedding Will Go to the Dogs
Originally posted 03/31/2009 11:15AM
Jennifer Hudson is looking forward to a three-dog night for her upcoming wedding to fiancé David Otunga.
Though mum on the date of the nuptials, the Oscar- and Grammy-winning star, 27, says one thing's certain: "I want my dogs to be in my wedding. I am so serious," she tells Access Hollywood of her three pups, Oscar, Grammy and Dreamgirl.
"Oscar might be the ring bearer," says Hudson. "We'll send them down the aisle with a little tux or something, a little dress."
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Jennifer Hudson Says Performing Is Therapeutic
Originally posted 02/27/2009 01:00PM
Jennifer Hudson wants everyone to know she's doing okay.
On Friday's live episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show, the singer said that she's happy to return to performing, and that singing at huge events such as the Super Bowl is "like therapy" for her.
"[I'm] in a very good place," the Oscar- and Grammy-winner, 27, told Winfrey. "I'm just glad to be back to work."
The highlight of Hudson's Grammy night on Feb. 8? Being handed her statuette by Whitney Houston, she says. "[That] almost surpassed" winning the award for best R&B album itself, she said. "I used to create duets with Whitney and myself."
She said her awards are in the piano room of her house, which she shares with her three dogs, named Oscar, Grammy and Dreamgirl.
The former American Idol contestant also sang her latest single, "If This Isn't Love," for the audience, but avoided talking about the murders last fall of her mother, brother and 7-year-old nephew in Chicago.
– Anne Marie Cruz
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Jennifer Hudson to Sing on Oprah Friday
Originally posted 02/26/2009 03:00PM
Jennifer Hudson will return to her hometown of Chicago to sing on The Oprah Winfrey show Friday.
The Grammy and Oscar winner has performed at several high-profile events, including the Super Bowl and the Grammys, over the last month. But this marks the first time that Hudson will sing in Chicago, since her mother, brother and nephew were killed in October.
Hudson will reportedly sing "If This Isn't Love" from her self-titled album.
The Grammy winner will kick off her first solo tour on April 2 in Philadelphia alongside R&B singer Robin Thicke.
– Marla Lehner
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Tyler Perry Wants Jennifer Hudson to Star in His Film
Originally posted 02/19/2009 02:55PM
Tyler Perry hopes Jennifer Hudson will continue performing – and even star in a film he wrote specifically for her.
"I just wrote a movie for her that I'm really excited about," the filmmaker, 39, told PEOPLE Wednesday's New York City premiere of Madea Goes to Jail, which opens to the public Friday. "I'm hoping she'll be able to do it."
Hudson, 27, kept a low profile following the tragic loss of her mother, brother and nephew last fall, but recently performed at the Super Bowl and the Grammys.
Unfortunately, her rep tells PEOPLE, "She will not be doing the film as she'll be on tour at the same time they are shooting."
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Rosario Dawson on Rihanna and Jennifer Hudson: We're All Sisters
Originally posted 02/14/2009 07:05AM
Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Kerry Washington and other prominent names gathered Friday to join forces to end violence against women the world over – and Rihanna was not far from anyone's minds.
At a luncheon in Beverly Hills for V-Day, The Vagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler's movement to end violence against women and girls, V-Day board member Dawson made reference to Rihanna and Jennifer Hudson – whose family was murdered in October – as she addressed the luncheon, reminding the audience that "all these women are our sisters."
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