Jennifer Hudson Has Always Been the Winner

glamour.com:

By Photography by Jennifer Hudson can’t get enough of the heat. Relentless, inert, encompassing heat that would send most people sprinting for the nearest air conditioner, which, for Hudson, is less than 20 paces away from the outdoor picnic table we’ve just settled into on stage three of Burbank’s Warner Bros.

lot. Ninety-one degrees and climbing be damned. We will sit outside. “Is this okay?” she asks me when I slide in next to her at the table.

It was. I’d already been told by her team to “dress for the Valley.”This particular picnic table—small, round, peaceful-ish given its proximity to the highway just over some hedges—is where she comes to take a quiet moment.

To be before slipping into J.Hud mode and sashaying into the (very air-conditioned) studio where she is currently filming The Jennifer Hudson Show, her syndicated daytime talk show that premiered on September 12 to friendly reviews.