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Jennifer Hudson captured America’s hearts on American Idol, captured an Oscar on the road to fame, and at long last, has captured the fashion world.

The songstress was selected to be the focal point of Net-A-Porter’s The Edit, and the outcome, much like J Hud, is a crowd pleaser.

In the interactive spread, Jennifer embodies old jazz age glam in gowns from Oscar de la Renta and coats from Marc Jacobs, as she opens up about everything from the Oscars to weight loss and her fondest memories of Whitney Houston.

Check out some excerpts from the interview below.

On the Oscars: 

 “I didn’t know what the Oscars was,” she says. “Where we come from, we don’t know anything about that world. If you see it on TV, it’s like, ‘Oh, people in fancy suits and ties’.”

On the friends she has made in the industry:

“It is so bizarre to me to say, ‘OK, let me go email Alicia [Keys], let me go email Beyoncé, let me go talk to Oprah…’. For so long I sat and admired them; now I’m among them.”

On her dreams: 

“I used to babysit for my cousin and she came home and said, ‘You didn’t cook, you didn’t clean!’” remembers Hudson. “I replied, ‘I don’t cook.’ She said, ‘What you gonna do when you get married?’ I said, ‘I am going to be rich and have maids and cooks.’ And I was dead serious.”

On American Idol has-beens: 

“What I feel about people you never hear from again is that they get too caught up in the hype. They think that just getting here is making it,” says Hudson. “No, it’s not making it. It’s like a losing-weight situation: it’s one thing to lose it, but it’s another to keep it off. Well, it’s one thing to make it, but it’s another thing to stay. [That is] why you have to constantly do stuff to keep people’s attention. It’s a hustle, it really is.”

On her interactions with Whitney Houston: 

“As a girl I’d sit in my momma’s house and sing I Will Always Love You. That’s why [singing in tribute] was so overwhelming. I’m just grateful I got to meet Whitney. She came backstage and was like, ‘I turn my torch over to you; you are The One’. I was like, ‘Oh my God! Did anybody else hear that?’ Had she not given me her blessing, I would never have stepped on that stage.”

Head over to Net-A-Porter to shop the full spread and read more from Jennifer Hudson.

SOURCE:  Net-A-Porter’s The Edit

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