Hathaway confirmed that rumor after Knocked Up was released, stating that she didn't feel comfortable being part of the move because she hadn't experienced motherhood firsthand. “I didn’t know how I was going to feel on the other side about giving birth,” said Hathaway when she was interviewed by Allure. After Hathaway pulled out, Katherine Heigl hopped in her place. Heigl later went on the record with Vanity Fair stating that the movie was "a little sexist."
Jennifer Hudson, Precious
In Jennifer Hudson’s 2012 autobiography I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down, she wrote that she had been offered the lead in Precious. She turned the role down, but why? Jennifer Hudson “wanted to try a role that had nothing to do whatsoever with [her] weight.”