Marc Malkin

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The Skinny on Jennifer Hudson's New Album

Jennifer Hudson (album cover) Amazon.com

Jennifer Hudson is looking darn hot on the cover of her self-titled debut album!

And I am here to tell you that the Oscar-winner did not have any Mariah Carey-like retouching!

Yes, that's Hudson's waist and her ample top half. "She has a tiny waist," a source insists.

In other words...

Say goodbye to zaftig Effie White from Dreamgirls.

Now, let's get to the album. Hudson says touring could be next, after it's released in September.

"I got to get out there and meet the people and the fans," she told me when we chatted last month, shortly after the release of the album's first single, "Spotlight." "To me that is the best feeling in the world."

And there may be a new musical collaboration in the works, too. There's talk, Hudson says, of recording a song for the soundtrack of her upcoming movie, The Secret Life of Bees, with costars Queen Latifah and Alicia Keys. "It would be an honor for me to do a song with them," Hudson cooed.

No word if their fourth costar, Dakota Fanning, will sing backup.

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