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===Box office===
''Waiting to Exhale'' was a financial success, opening at number one at the North American box office and grossing $14.1 million its first weekend of release.<ref>{{cite news|title=It's a Big Sigh of Relief for ''Exhale'': Box office: Whitney Houston film opens strongly and could take in $11 million or more for the four-day weekend. 'Nixon' and 'Cutthroat Island' perform poorly.|work=The Los Angeles Times|date=December 25, 1995|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-25-ca-17784-story.html|access-date=November 1, 2010|first=Elaine|last=Dutka|archive-date=March 23, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220323154531/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-12-25-ca-17784-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In total, the film grossed $67.05 million in North America, and $14.4 million internationally, for a total worldwide gross of $81.45 million.<ref name="boxofficemojo1">[https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=waitingtoexhale.htm WAITING TO EXHALE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160817055901/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=main&id=waitingtoexhale.htm |date=August 17, 2016 }} ''Box Office Mojo''. Retrieved February 21, 2010</ref> Its widest release was just over 1,400 theatres, and it was the 26th highest-grossing film of 1995.<ref name="boxofficemojo1"/>