These Celebrities Revealed Designers Refused to Dress Them for Awards Shows In the Past

Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy told Redbook several years ago, “When I go shopping, most of the time I’m disappointed. Two Oscars ago, I couldn’t find anybody to do a dress for me. I asked five or six designers—very high-level ones who make lots of dresses for people—and they all said no.”

Octavia Spencer

“I’m just a short chubby girl,” Octavia told THR in 2012, before she won a Golden Globe for The Help. “It’s hard for me to find a dress to wear to something like this! It’s a lot of pressure, I’ll tell ya. No designers are coming to me! Maybe I should have sworn off peanut butter last year instead of this year. One of the best things about awards shows are you get to wear clothes you would never get to wear.”