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 LOS ANGELES (AP) - As she walks into the ballroom of an airport hotel, 20 women offer a collective swoon. Then come reactions one would expect were reserved just for Oprah: the screeches, the tears, the fluttering hand over the heart. One woman is hyperventilating, breathlessly squealing: "Ommigod! It's Mo'Nique! It's Mo'Nique!"
Looking like a plus-sized black Barbie in a green polka-dot sundress, her hair in a playful flip, the 39-year-old actress-comedian is quickly engulfed by her "fat girls." She embraces them, trying not to muss her makeup with her own tears.
"I always think I'm going to do fine when I get to this point, but I know your tears," she tells them, each a finalist in the third year of her big-girl beauty competition, "Mo'Nique's F.A.T. Chance" — as in "Fabulous And Thick."
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