Stars who chunked out

Yes, let's assemble a list.

Tom selleck

DiCaprio owns this thread.

William Shatner, but he wore corsets in the sixties, so he was fighting the flab even then.

Chevy Chase

Delta Burke

Jessica Simpson

Beyoncé

Kirstie Alley

Kelly Clarkson

Madonna (for a few years, especially around the time she was living in Portugal and was popping pills, drinking booze, etc.)

ICE, ICE Baby DEAN CAIN!

Famous MAGA loon Victoria Jackson

Sally Struthers

Valerie Bertinelli

Selena Gomez

Kathleen Turner

Alec Baldwin

Russell Crowe

John Travolta

Gomez and Turner seem to have gained weight as a side effect of prescription meds and it looks like Gomez may have lost some recently.

Kelly McGillis

R13 Selena Gomez has LUPUS. Thus, the explanation for any weight gain/loss (medications to manage the disease, flares from the disease itself).

Kathleen Turner has RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. Again, medications to manage her disease explain weight gain.

These people "chunked out" for a reason. Same with Christina Applegate (who has MS).

La Liz

Liz Taylor fluctuated all the time.

R16 = Joan Rivers

Nelly Furtado

Yasmine Bleeth

Thank you R15. I said it was due to medication.

I’m watching La Liz in Cleopatra right now.

She was beyond beautiful.

MARY r22!!!

Fat ol' Russell Crowe. He's a good actor but he gained a ton of weight around 2005 and never lost it.

[Quote] Kathleen Turner has RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. Again, medications to manage her disease explain weight gain.

To say nothing of her tendency to hit the bottle

Tyra Banks

Janet Jackson

Jody Watley

Lady Gaga when she was doing drugs and drinking.

Mariah Carey

In Gaga's defense, it's easy to look fat when you're only 5'1. She went from really thin to slightly chubby but she's never been a true fatass.

R29 She was fat.

Jesse Plemons. Although he appears to fluctuate.

Not me. I've slimmed down to 500.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

R31 Jesse and Kirsten are skinny now.

Comrade Steven Seagal, Special Representative for Russia-US Cultural Links, Cultural and Historical Heritage.

Nicole Richey

Jan Hooks

[quote] Jan Hooks

I'm sure she's skin and bone now!

Alicia Silverstone

Matt Damon

Leonardo Dicaprio

Not a star but boy Hillary blew up like a balloon.

Dan Aykroyd and Donna Dixon got chubby together

Lens Dunham

R42-Every time a new photo is posted of her she looks like someone keeps pumping her full of helium like a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade float.

Beverly D'Angelo

Rosemary Clooney (Who knew paper products have so many calories?)

La Liz was fat adjacent in Cleopatra. Chin wise.

Vincent D'Onofrio and the man I get him confused with, Vince Vaughn.

Elvis Presley

Apparently, it looks like Russell Crowe is ozempicing:

What a shit article at r49. It shows the fat Russell Crowe, and NOT the one who has apparently Ozempiced (at the Golden Bee Awards).

Since I like to see what someone is talking about and I've only had a few sips of coffee this morning, I did the dirty work for r49 and took the "before" pic of RC from the shitty article and combined it with an ACTUAL photo of RC at the awards.

You're welcome.

R50: Have 2 cups.

Add a Valium to your coffee this morning, r50.

That WAS a photo of a slimmed down RC.

Here’s a fatter look on him.

Matt Leblanc.

The closet adds 500 lbs

the photo at r49 shows him with long, unkempt hair, while the other photo shows him with rather shortish hair. Although the two side by side photos don't (at first glance) seem to show a difference in his body size, there is...he's wearing a dark suit in both, but in the pic on the right, he's noticeably more trim, as is his face.

Anyways, good for Russell because he was REALLY porking out with his belly hanging below his shirt and above his trousers. Sheesh...what a difference from the in-shape man he was just a decade or so earlier. I watched one of those "back through time" videos of him just yesterday or the day before that showed his regression from Porky Pig Town to the buff guy in Gladiator.

Serena Williams just lost 31 lbs using GLP-1. She said she couldn't get back to her pre-pregnancy weight after having her two kids no matter how hard she trained.

She's promoting "Ro" which is where she obtained the semaglutide, and her husband is an investor in the company. Good for her for normalizing its use; although, she did say it's because she has a family history of Type II diabetes as the major motivation for shedding the weight. But she was also very candid about how hard she tried to lose the weight using all the methods she's learned throughout her career and it just wouldn't budge. Maybe having an athlete discussing the difficulties of losing weight that an Olympic athlete had might help others come to terms with just how hard it can be to lose weight and shut up the "calories in/calories out" chants.

I'd link it but it's a DM article.

Why fat shame so often and consistently. What gives?

Russell looks like he weighs about 300 pounds in the "Kraven" movie.

Sam Smith

Sherilyn Fenn was such a beauty in her day. She exuded Old Hollywood glamour and even played Elizabeth Taylor in a tv movie biopic. That's why I'm always shocked when I see contemporary pictures of her looking like this (linked below). Yes, we all grow old and pack on the pounds, but at least make an effort to look presentable.

Dataloungers who CHUNKED out

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Greta Scacchi

Surprised no one has mentioned Judy

R59 Liz also added weight.

I would argue that Sherilyn was more beautiful than Liz at their respective peaks.

Sherilynn looks like a Minnesotan house frau in the pic at r59

[quote]In Gaga's defense, it's easy to look fat when you're only 5'1. She went from really thin to slightly chubby but she's never been a true fatass.

R29, I'm also only 5'.1". A weight change of only 5 pounds can matter whether you fit into your clothes or not.

Emily Deschanel got fat during the course of Bones.

Karen Carpenter

R, That was because she was pregnant and had the baby during the course of the show, then had difficulty losing the postpartum weight, which isn't that unusual.