A very pregnant, seven months to be exact, Halle Berry accepted an award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Saturday night. She said that being pregnant was the secret to enjoying these events.

Halle said, “This is the first red carpet that I’ve really walked down where I didn’t have to think about holding in my stomach - because I can’t.”

She and her boyfriend Gabriel Aubry are expecting their first child together. Halle went on to say, “It’s the first time I’ve been to an awards show where they served a meal and I actually ate it - the whole thing. I was eating off everybody else’s plate and that felt very liberating and good.”

You go girl….but really? You always hold your stomach in? What stomach?

Actress Halle Berry is frustrated she still has to convince movie bosses of her acting ability because of her skin color. The 41-year-old is the only woman of African American descent to have won an Oscar for Best Actress - but Berry admits race barriers still exist in Hollywood. She needs to get over it…..by the way she is half white but forgets to mention that. In fact, there are more women actress’s out there today, that are unbelievable! And quite a few that are white etc.etc.., and cannot get work…gee… reverse discrimination? You wonder! Pave the way for ALL Women! By the way it amazes me that a Oscar winning actress and a former bond girl finds it hard to land significant roles in Hollywood movies, it has also to do with our fixation for white skin, that looks attractive but is mostly empty inside. I though ours’ is an industry that believes in quality and commitment rather that the color of the skin, but barriers exists and we live on to ignore it.