{"id":290281,"date":"2011-03-05T13:20:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/03\/05\/naacp-image-awards-2011-halle-berry-bares-her-belly-in-daring-dress\/"},"modified":"2011-03-05T13:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T13:20:20","slug":"naacp-image-awards-2011-halle-berry-bares-her-belly-in-daring-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/05\/naacp-image-awards-2011-halle-berry-bares-her-belly-in-daring-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"NAACP Image Awards 2011: Halle Berry bares her belly in daring dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div readability=\"165.286234282\">\n<!-- google_ad_section_start(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\nBy<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/home\/search.html?s=y&#038;authornamef=Daily+Mail+Reporter\" rel=\"nofollow\">Daily Mail Reporter<\/a><br \/>Last updated at 1:20 PM on 5th March 2011<\/p>\n<p><span>If Halle Berry was hoping to draw a few gasps on the red carpet tonight, then her daring Pucci dress was right on the button.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The 44-year-old actress arrived at the NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles in the show-stopping number which featured a bold print and an even more eye-catching neckline. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The unusual design cut well past her cleavage, giving onlookers a peek of the actress&#8217; midriff and navel.<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/accdfadb739_634x801.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"801\" alt=\"Taking the plunge: Halle Berry turned heads as she arrived for the NAACP Image Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in LA today\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taking the plunge: Halle Berry turned heads as she arrived for the NAACP Image Awards held at the Shrine Auditorium in LA today<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<p>Bold print: The star wore a Pucci dress with Bavna earrings<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/b44c180e251_634x523.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"523\" alt=\"Pop royalty: Prince presented the Frankie &#038; Alice star with the award for the most outstanding actress in a motion picture\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pop royalty: Prince presented the Frankie &#038; Alice star with the award for the most outstanding actress in a motion picture<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Later, the Oscar-winner Halle Berry<br \/>\nadded another trophy to her collection, this time for her best actress<br \/>\nperformance as a woman with a multiple personalities in Frankie &#038;<br \/>\nAlice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;If it were not for the NAACP, a<br \/>\nlittle girl like me would not have had wind beneath her wings in a small<br \/>\ntown in Ohio,&#8217; she said after accepting the award from Prince. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I have never been more proud to be a black woman.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The star, who is in the throes of a bitter custody battle with her ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry over their daughter 2-year-old daughter Nahla, arrived without her current beau, Olivier Martinez. <br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The National Association for the<br \/>\nAdvancement of Coloured People (NAACP) is the oldest U.S. civil rights<br \/>\norganization and has given out Image awards for 42 years to honour<br \/>\npeople of colour in film, television, music and literature.<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p>Winnners are grinners: Modern Family&#8217; star Sofia Vergara took home the best supporting comedy actress gong<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"7\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/49830bd688_634x783.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"783\" alt=\"Glamorous friends: Halle and Sofia chatted with each other backstage at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Glamorous friends: Halle and Sofia chatted with each other backstage at the 42nd NAACP Image Awards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Director and writer Tyler Perry was<br \/>\nthe big winner tonight, scooping top awards for his movie For Colored<br \/>\nGirls and best TV comedy series trophy for Tyler Perry&#8217;s House of Payne.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Perry, 41, one of the most prolific<br \/>\nAfrican-Americans in the U.S. entertainment industry, was the man behind<br \/>\nwins for comedy actor David Mann in the TV show Tyler Perry&#8217;s Meet the<br \/>\nBrowns, and Kimberly Elise for her supporting role in For Colored Girls.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>For Colored Girls brought a best<br \/>\nmovie and best director statue for Perry, who is also a producer, actor<br \/>\nand playwright. The movie, based on the play by Ntozake Shange For<br \/>\nColored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf is<br \/>\nbased on poems about the lives of women.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Full length and fabulous: Angela Bassett, Tatyana Ali and Sandra Oh dazzled on the red carpet<\/p>\n<p>Sibling revelry: Sister, Sister&#8217;s Tamera and Tia Mowry both attended and Vanessa Williams won the best actress gong<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;I wanted to take this iconic work<br \/>\nand introduce it to people who had never heard of it. &#8230; There is<br \/>\nnothing like having nine strong black women holding you up,&#8217; Perry said,<br \/>\nreferring to a cast that included Whoopi Goldberg and Janet Jackson.<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/bb963fb2555_306x370.jpg\" width=\"306\" height=\"370\" alt=\"Big winner: Writer and director Tyler Perry scooped top awards for his movie For Colored Girls and best TV comedy series trophy for Tyler Perry's House of Payne\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Big winner: Writer and director Tyler Perry scooped top awards for his movie For Colored Girls and best TV comedy series trophy for Tyler Perry&#8217;s House of Payne<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Denzel Washington won the best actor Image Award for the action movie &#8216;The Book of Eli.&#8217;<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Willow Smith, the 10 year-old<br \/>\ndaughter of actors Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, won the best new<br \/>\nmusic artist award, beating out popular rivals Bruno Mars and rapper<br \/>\nNicki Minaj.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Smith&#8217;s first single, &#8216;Whip My Hair,&#8217; reached No. 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in late 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><br \/>\nFormer U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell received the NAACP<br \/>\nPresident&#8217;s Award for special achievement in public service, earning a<br \/>\nstanding ovation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Powell, the first African-American<br \/>\nchairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, paid tribute to the work of the<br \/>\nNAACP in advancing civil rights since its foundation in 1909, but said<br \/>\nthere was more to be done.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;We still have youngsters who are in<br \/>\ndesperate straits, who need education, who need health care. [They] have<br \/>\nto be given a sense of expectation,&#8217; he said.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;Even though we have come so far, we will need the NAACP for another 100 years, or until the work is done.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The TV category saw honours for<br \/>\nmedical drama &#8216;Grey&#8217;s Anatomy,&#8217; while Vanessa Williams won the best<br \/>\nactress Image Award for &#8216;Desperate Housewives&#8217; and &#8216;Modern Family&#8217; star<br \/>\nSofia Vergara took home the best supporting comedy actress award.<\/span><\/p>\n<div readability=\"10\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/749782b4692_634x457.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"457\" alt=\"VIP guest: Former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, pictured with his wife Alma, received the NAACP President's Award for special achievement in public service\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>VIP guest: Former United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, pictured with his wife Alma, received the NAACP President&#8217;s Award for special achievement in public service<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/8c86796e736_634x418.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"418\" alt=\"Speakers: American Idol's Randy Jackson (right) and actor Brandon T Jackson spoke on stage at the awards\" class=\"blkBorder\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Speakers: American Idol&#8217;s Randy Jackson (right) and actor Brandon T Jackson spoke on stage at the awards<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div readability=\"8\">\n<p>Red carpet looks: Samuel L. Jackson wore a black suit with a white jacket for the event while actress Victoria Justice arrived in a floor length metallic dress<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- google_ad_section_end(name=s2) --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/accdfadb739_634x801-150x150.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>View original post here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/tvshowbiz\/article-1363254\/NAACP-Image-Awards-2011-Halle-Berry-bares-belly-daring-dress.html?ITO=1490\" title=\"NAACP Image Awards 2011: Halle Berry bares her belly in daring dress\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NAACP Image Awards 2011: Halle Berry bares her belly in daring dress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:20 PM on 5th March 2011 If Halle Berry was hoping to draw a few gasps on the red carpet tonight, then her daring Pucci dress was right on the button. The 44-year-old actress arrived at the NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles in the show-stopping number which featured a bold print and an even more eye-catching neckline. The unusual design cut well past her cleavage, giving onlookers a peek of the actress&#8217; midriff and navel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NAACP Image Awards 2011: Halle Berry bares her belly in daring dress - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/03\/05\/naacp-image-awards-2011-halle-berry-bares-her-belly-in-daring-dress\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NAACP Image Awards 2011: Halle Berry bares her belly in daring dress - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:20 PM on 5th March 2011 If Halle Berry was hoping to draw a few gasps on the red carpet tonight, then her daring Pucci dress was right on the button. 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