I Will Survive

Academy Award, Emmy Award, Tony Award, Grammy Award

Recently, while re-watching the Sex in the City series, Carrie's friend Stanford is talking about Cher and excitedly comments: "She's such a survivor!" This isn't the first time I've heard the gay credo that all female diva's have survived something substantial. Apparently this is what makes them attractive to gay men. But...

What the hell did these diva's actually DO? 

What did they survive? 

Let's see, Cher survived incredible fame including being the only artist to have a number one single on the Billboard Chart for the last six decades. Besides Emmy Awards, Grammy Awards, Golden Globe Awards and Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum Awards, she also won the Academy Award for her role as Loretta Castorini in the movie Moonstruck.

Oh what the hell, she also won these awards too:

People’s Choice Award
Critics' Choice Award
CableACE Award
Billboard Magazine's Artist of the Year
Billboard Music Award
American Comedy Awards
American Fashion Award
American Music Award
MTV Video Music Award
New York Film Critics Circle Award
Bafta Film Award
National Society of Film Critics Award
Cannes Film Festival Winner
Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award (2)
Winner, Guinness World Records, Highest grossing tour by a female solo artist of all-time: Living Proof: The Farewell Tour
Appeared on the cover of People magazine a record of 13 times
Worldwide Tours Total Gross: $885,000,000.00

Cher was so famous that when she used Auto Tune for some of the vocals in her hit number one single Believe, the effect was renamed the Cher Effect.

Judy Garland was so good at surviving that she killed herself.

Liza didn't kill herself but what did she survive? Marrying gay men?

Barbra Streisand? You've got to be kidding. According to celebrityworth.com Streisand survived amassing a fortune of approximately 340 million dollars. She'd have considerably more if she wasn't among the most philanthropic celebrities. Besides enormous wealth, she also survived winning 2 Academy Awards, 2 Oscars (which is almost the same thing), 8 Grammy Awards, 4 Golden Globe Awards, 3 Emmy Awards, 5 People's Choice Awards and a special Tony Award.

Diana Ross survived being one of the most successful female singers of all time. Billboard magazine named Ross the "female entertainer of the century" in 1976. In the 1960's, The Supremes were Motown's most successful act and is to this day America's most successful vocal group. In 1993, the Guinness Book of World Records declared her the most successful female music artist in history. She amassed 70 hit singles and has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.

Madonna although nothing sarcastic or disparaging can ever be said of Madonna (because I say so), she did manage to survive the following awards: 2 Golden Globe Awards, 4 ASCAP Film and Television Awards, 7 Grammy Awards, 49 Billboard Music Awards and 20 Video Music Awards. In 1989, MTV honored her as the "Artist of the Decade." The Recording Industry Association of America named her the best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the Guinness World Records recognized Madonna as the best-selling female recording artist of all time (and gave her 10 other World Records Awards).

OK, I admit, some of these women had difficulties in their lives but, who doesn't?

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
(sometimes attributed to Plato, but that's not known to be a fact)