MoNique says her husband can sleep with 20 other women

I’ll admit, some of the stuff that comes out of Mo’Nique’s mouth is a real turn-off, especially when she talks about money and how she needs to get paid. And when she talks about herself in the third person. So my expectations were not high when I heard that she was one of the celebrities who would sit down for the Barbara Walters pre-Oscar interview. Gatecrasher has a preview of the interview, though, and it sounds really amazing. As in, she doesn’t care if her husband cheats on her. In Mo’Nique’s words, “Could Sid have sex outside of his marriage with me? Yes. That’s not a deal-breaker. That’s not something that would make us say, ‘Pack your things and let’s end the marriage.’ So what? We’ve been best friends for over 25 years, and we truly know who we are. Oftentimes, people get into marriages and they don’t know who they’re laying next to. I’m very comfortable and secure with my husband.” Jesus. That makes me really, really like her for her uncomfortable honesty:

Open marriage? Maybe partly.

Despite her constant claims of an open union with hubby Sidney Hicks, Mo’Nique reveals that she doesn’t stray – but she may not be able to say the same about her better half.

“Let me say this: I have not had sex outside my marriage with Sidney,” the Academy Award nominee says in this year’s 29th – and final – Barbara Walters Oscar special.

“Could Sid have sex outside of his marriage with me? Yes. That’s not a deal-breaker. That’s not something that would make us say, ‘Pack your things and let’s end the marriage.'”

And what if the “Precious” star discovered that Hicks had, well, stepped out more than once? No sweat.

“What if it’s 20 times?” asks the openminded actress. “So what? We’ve been best friends for over 25 years, and we truly know who we are. Oftentimes, people get into marriages and they don’t know who they’re laying next to. I’m very comfortable and secure with my husband.”

Of course, Miss M has a few tricks to keep her hubby from straying – fingers crossed – and that includes her infamously unshaven gams.

“He loves the hairy legs,” Mo says, “and if Sid likes the hairy legs, there you go.”

She even explains to Walters why she chooses to go au naturel: “I tried shaving one time, and it was so uncomfortable and painful. I said never again would I do that to myself.”

Besides, says Mo’Nique, “I’m 42 and I’m very hairy.”

Umm, okay.

At least there’s one subject she won’t broach with Walters during the special, which airs Sunday night on ABC: her possible Oscar speech.

“I don’t like thinking about that, because I’m big on the universe,” says the star, who’s a hands-down favorite to take home the Best Supporting Actress prize. “I don’t want to start making this speech or [think about what] I’m going to say because I don’t want the universe to say, ‘Really? You so sure about that?’ Let’s not jinx it.”

[From Gatecrasher]

I know some people find the whole “hairy legs” thing gross, but I kind of like that too. I mean, sure, I shave my legs nearly every day. But I don’t judge women who don’t shave or wax, I admire them. I wish I could be like that. I wish I could find a guy who was like “Grow out your mustache, Kaiser.” Although I would probably still wax that junk, just because no matter what my boyfriend Jeremy Renner says, I still don’t want to walk around with a mustache.

Mo’Nique at the NAACP Image awards on February 26, 2010 and at the D.I.V.A. Awards on February 27. Credit: WENN.

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