I was overweight, very shy: Viola Davis

Los Angeles March 4 (IANS) Fences star Viola Davis who won an Oscar in the Best Supporting Actress category says it was only last year that she began to feel fully confident in her skin.

My confidence took time. It really did to come into myself people.com quoted the 51-year-old as saying.

She added: At first I just wanted to try really hard to make people see that I was pretty that I wasn t just the drug addict from (the 2002 drama) Antoine Fisher so it was about proving something to someone.

She said: I was one of those people that everyone knew but I didn t have a lot of friends. I didn t date or do any of that stuff. I was overweight and very very shy.

Davis who grew up in extreme poverty added that she was definitely not a snazzy dresser and definitely didn t wear make-up.

A self-described geek Davis says she was always looking for a way to express what was in me my thoughts and I found it through theatre so that was where I thrived.

If she did not have that outlet Davis says I probably would have imploded.

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