Texas belle Renee usually has to tread carefully over grates in the pavement, but she wasn't afraid to tuck into her steak 'n' taters to fill the sizeable pants of English wobble-bot Bridget. The love handles allegedly cost her a cover shot on Harper's Bazaar, but they did help her to an Oscar nom (though 25lb is clearly just below the Academy's winning threshhold).<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Bridget-Jones-Diary.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Bridget Jones' Diary"},{"captionHeading":"George Clooney in Syriana ","caption":"
‘Gorgeous George’ bust a gut – and a few belts, by the looks of it – to play a gone-to-seed CIA spook in Steven Soderbergh’s political hot potato Syriana. He too earned an Oscar for his efforts. The Academy clearly loves actors with meat on their bones.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Syriana.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Syriana"},{"captionHeading":"Vincent D’Onofrio in Full Metal Jacket ","caption":"
Topping De Niro’s weight-gain feat by 10lbs, the lesser known d’Onofrio made a huge impression as Private Pile, the donut-loving Vietnam recruit who would eventually blow his top in Kubrick’s boot camp classic.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Full-Metal-Jacket.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Full Metal Jacket"},{"captionHeading":"Charlize Theron in Monster ","caption":"
In the most remarkable transformation since Lon Chaney last opened his make-up bag, former model Theron added 30lbs and showed her ugly side in every sense to play serial killer Aileen Wuornos. And yep, she won an Oscar too.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Monster.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Monster"},{"captionHeading":"Robert De Niro in Raging Bull ","caption":"
In portraying legendary boxer Jake LaMotta from his physical prime to his lardy later life, De Niro piled on 60lbs through a tough regime of hot-dogs, pasta and ice-cream. 1981’s Best Actor Oscar put a cherry on top.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Raging-Bull.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Raging Bull"},{"captionHeading":"Sylvester Stallone in Copland","caption":"
Anxious to be taken seriously in James Mangold’s fine crime drama, fitness freak Sly swapped treadmills for bread rolls to gain three extra stone. The sacrifice was worth it as he earned some of the best notices of his career.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Copland.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Copland"},{"captionHeading":"Jared Leto in Chapter 27","caption":"
Panic Room/Alexander actor Leto normally makes whippets obese but literally immersed himself in the role of John Lennon's killer Mark Chapman for this indie drama. Melted ice-cream with olive oil and soy sauce helped him gain 67lbs (yum!), but unfortunately his colossal performance went largely unseen as the film died at the box office. But maybe that's because Lindsay Lohan was in it.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Chapter-27.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Chapter 27"},{"captionHeading":"Ryan Reynolds in Just Friends ","caption":"
Reynolds is the love-struck former gut-bucket whose best friend was the prettiest girl in high school. Years after losing the lard, he tries to win her back. Fat chance.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Just-Friends.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Just Friends"},{"captionHeading":"Martin Lawrence in Big Momma’s House ","caption":"
Anything Eddie Murphy can do, Martin Lawrence can do worse, as demonstrated by this feeble tale of an FBI agent who poses as a girthly granny to protect a witness. The fat jokes wear even thinner in the sequel.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Big-Mommas-House.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Big Momma's House"},{"captionHeading":"Meg Ryan in My Mom’s New Boyfriend ","caption":"
Formerly the cutest button in Hollywood , Ryan adopts a faux-flabby look for this little-seen crime caper. Of course she hasn’t quite gone to seed, but the fact that she’s old enough to play Colin Hanks’s mum makes us feel very, very old.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/My-Moms-New-Boyfriend.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"My Mom's New Boyfriend"},{"captionHeading":"Goldie Hawn in Death Becomes Her ","caption":"
Deemed ground-breaking in 1992, the special effects of Robert ‘Back to the Future’ Zemeckis’s put 200lbs on lifelong stick insect Hawn before leaving a gaping hole through her mid-riff. Believe us, this was clever stuff back then.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Death-Becomes-Her.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Death Becomes Her"},{"captionHeading":"Eddie Murphy in Norbit","caption":"
Liposuctioning every ounce of fun from his multiple-characters-and-fat-suits fetish, Eddie Murphy won three Razzie Awards, including Worst Supporting Actress as Norbit’s monstrous fiancée. Still, thanks to legendary make-up artist Rick Baker’s terrific prosthetics, Norbit is officially the worst film ever to be nominated for an Oscar.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Norbit.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Norbit"},{"captionHeading":"Mike Myers in Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me ","caption":"
Always a fan of the dressing-up box, it was only a matter of time before Myers gave himself an excuse to put on the fat-suit. Thus was born the imaginatively named Fat Bastard, obnoxious Scottish henchman to Dr Evil. Fat? Och aye. Funny? Jings, no.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Austin-Powers.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Austin Powers"},{"captionHeading":"Gwyneth Paltrow in Shallow Hal ","caption":"
Skinny Gwynnie is more familiar with celery than cellulite, which is why the always-happy-to-offend Farrelly brothers cast her as the thirty-stone chubster who somehow catches Jack Black’s eye.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Shallow-Hal.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Shallow Hal"},{"captionHeading":"Eddie Murphy(s) in The Nutty Professor ","caption":"
For his remake of Jerry Lewis’s 1963 hit, Murphy decided bulk up - not only as roly-poly Professor Sherman Klump, but as his entire food-lovin’ family. A glutton for punishment, the Murph donned all the fat-suits once again for the equally popular sequel.<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Nutty-Professor-2.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Nutty Professor 2"},{"captionHeading":"John Travolta in Hairspray","caption":"
Anyone who saw Pulp Fiction could be forgiven for wondering whether JT would ever need extra padding. Nevertheless, the former Saturday Night Greaser added to his dimples to play Momma Turnblad in 2007’s hit musical (though he looked less like a housewife than an overgrown Cabbage Patch Kid).<\/p>","url":"2008/11/12/Hairspray.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"Hairspray"},{"captionHeading":"Terry Jones in Monty Python's Meaning of Life","caption":"
And for dessert...
<\/p>
Maître d': \"Ah, good afternoon, sir; and how are we today?\"
\r\nMr Creosote: \"Better\".
\r\nMaître d': \"Better?\"
\r\nMr Creosote: \"Better get a bucket - I'm gonna throw up.\"<\/i> <\/p>
Python stalwart Terry Jones donned a vast fat suit to play a morbidly obese French gourmand who explodes, spraying a torrent of innards and half-digested food on the poncey diners at a French restaurant.<\/p>
After all, he had just demolished everything on the menu...served in a bucket with quail eggs on top, and for apéritifs six bottles of Château Latour 1945, a double jeroboam of champagne, and half a dozen crates of brown ale (half his usual allowance).<\/p>
(the culinary explosion was triggered by the Maître d' - played by John Cleese - offering him a \"wafer-thin mint\").<\/p>","url":"2008/11/13/mr-creosote.jpg","width":570,"height":364,"alt":"mr-creosote"}];