Fantasia Not Pregnant, Gaining Weight For Movie Role According to Manager

By On 02/08/2011 · 33 Comments · In American Idol, Fantasia

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Fantasia Barrino’s manager, Brian Dickens, speaks out to squelch the latest rumors that the beleaguered Season 3 Idol winner is pregnant with married lover Antwaun Cook’s child. Dickens tells CNN that “Fantasia’s pregnant with prosperity.”

The recent weight gain is in preparation for a movie role, claims Dickens. He says Fantasia has been signed to play legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, and must gain 45 pounds by the time filming starts in May.

Fantasia admitted, under oath, in Cook’s November 2010 child custody case that she got pregnant by her married lover and had an abortion around the time of her failed suicide attempt.

So yeah. Good thing Fantasia’s not pregnant. Keep it together, girl.

Update: According to THR, the Mahalia Jackson bio-pic Fantasia is set to appear in is a feature-film adaptation of the 1993 book Got to Tell It: Mahalia Jackson, Queen of Gospel.

Fantasia will portray Jackson, according to THR, “on her journey from abject poverty in New Orleans to her rise as a global figure in gospel and early supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr. The singer died in 1972 at the age of 60.”

The film will be directed by Euzhan Palcy (A Dry White Season) from a script by Jim Evering. It goes into production in April in Pittsburgh and Chicago for a December release.

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  • siren

    Congratulations to Fantasia on this new role!! She was incredible in The Color Purple on Broadway. Gospel music is in her blood and I am sure she will do justice to the role of Mahalia.

  • ladymadonna

    What a bizarre way to handle the PR aspect of this announcement. Instead of proactively issuing a press release and working this story about the movie role in a controlled and positive way to the press, it was announced as a defensive move only after Fantasia’s weight gain was questioned? I really hope Fanty gets her shit together (maybe a Grammy will be the catalyst?). After watching her vh1 show and how the whole Antuwan Cook/suicide scandal was handled, I kinda hope “getting her shit together” includes unloading her manager and hiring a skilled and hard-nosed publicist.

  • Elliegrll

    And it sounds like his home was wrecked WAY before Fantasia arrived.

    It doesn’t matter, but Fantasia always stated that she believed that he and his wife were separated at the time that she they started to date, and this was shown to be true in a court of law.

  • partyintheusa

    in my world view it wasn’t a baby, it was a fetus

    Yes because a fetus is just some lifeless mass of tissue, right? When it’s wanted, we don’t hear a woman say I’m carrying a fetus. She says I’m carrying a baby. When exactly does it become a baby in your world view? After birth? If so, then crushing its skull right before it is should be born is okay then, right?

    Any no she should not be a mother again. That is why there are things out there called adoption.

  • songsungblue

    If so, then crushing its skull right before it is should be born is okay then, right?

    Right. :)

  • partyintheusa

    Fine…if I and others are supposed to keep out of others’ “personal choice”, then keep our tax dollars out of it too. No more government funding for that shit. After all, it is your personal choice, so why should I have to help you pay for it?

  • songsungblue

    Uh. What does this have to do with Fantasia again? ;)

  • Tera2

    I just read couple days ago she’s back with that Antwaun guy and possibly pregnant again and I was shocked. After all the drama and humiliation of trying to kill herself she’s back with him again. She might as well be pregnant too. I only saw a few of her TV show, but I saw that one when she confronted Antwan about the whole drama with wife. And her family told her she made the right decision to leave him alone, and she agreed. I thought they gave her good advise too. The guy looked like someone just with her for money and celebrity. He is too attractive for her and wouldn’t date someone like Fantasia if she didn’t have the fame to go with it. She’s clearly obssessed with him. Fantasia has issues, and this won’t be the last of her drama I’m sure. Lets hope she doesn’t take another overdose over him. I wish her well.

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