He gained a lot of weight
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Helena727 — 10 years ago(June 06, 2015 10:41 AM)
It's amazing to me and APPALLING that so many on this thread are apologists for him.
I.
"Hey, he's getting older, it happens, just a fact of life" Really? Then why isn't that your response to women over 50 who have a little padding?Here's a
fact of life
: During pregnancy and menopause, women experience weight gain because of radical hormonal changes. IT'S A SCIENTIFIC FACT. Yet nobody has such a laid-back reply to chubby women, let alone those who are outright fat. Women get fat-shamed, but men get the green light (Hey, it's just part of getting older). U T T E R B U L L S H I T.
AND
, women Berenger's age+older go to great lengths to keep their figure: Jessica Walter, Diane Keaton, Barbara Walters, Patricia Clarkson, Shelly Long, Jean Smart, Meryl Streep, Sigourney Weaver, Glenn Close, Lesley Manville, Veronica Cartwright, Brooke Adams, Barbara Hershey, Jessica Lange, Judith Light, Sissy Spacek, Tilda Swinton, Zoe Wanamaker, Isabelle Huppert, etc. etc. etc.). It is a societally imposed tyranny that actresses have to stay slim if they are to get work whereas actors can get 111cas fat and grey and pockmarked as they like.
-> Berenger isn't just "a little heavy"; at this point, he's low-end obese yet he and all the other male blobs (Drew Carey, Kevin James, Alec Baldwin, Chris Noth, Vincent D'Onofio, William Shatner, James Spader, George Wendt, Timothy Spall, Fred Thompsom, J.K. Simmons, Ian MacNeice, David Calder, Clive Swift, Ryan O'Neill, Burt Young, and Danny DeVito, to name just a few) have no trouble getting work (or HAD no trouble: Dom Deluise (RIP), James Coco (RIP), John Belushi (RIP), John Candy (RIP), Chris Farley (RIP), Chris Penn (RIP) ). NOT SO FOR WOMEN! Very few chunky actresses have thriving careers, and I can think of only two fat ones who do. And let's not get started on men being allowed to act regardless of how unattractive their faces (DeVito, Wendt, Simmons, Carey, McNeice, Michael Berryman,Luis Guzmn, Richard Kiel, Vincent Schiavelli, Danny Trejo, Forest Whitaker, etc. etc. etc.) whereas the few chunky-to-fat women wouldn't have careers if not for their pretty faces (Cameron Manheim, Melissa McCarthy, Mindy Kaling, Kathy Bates, Kirstie Alley ).
II.
Extra weight causes a lot of health problems, from diabetes to heart disease to joint stress that often ends in knee- and/or hip-replacement. The US is wasting a LOT of money treating health problems that could easily have been prevented money that could be used to treat the millions who are still uninsured. That is INSANE.
And it's doubly insane to see someone who has the cash to make appointments with professionals (nutritionist, chef, physical therapist, personal trainer, acupuncturist, massage therapist, psychotherapist) still wallowing in his unhealthy lard.
III.
If Berenger has received treatment for addiction, then presumably he (as a wealthy person) has made sure to surround himself with all sorts of health professionals who can help him take care of himself: nutritionist, part-time chef to prepare meals that are both healthful and delicious; personal trainer; acupuncturist to help with relaxation and coping with one's triggers; massage therapist to help with stress (body work can also help with emotional healing to address whatever led to the addiction); etc. If the addiction arose from injury-caused pain, then he could see a physical therapist, and here too acupuncture and massage therapy are helpful.
Point is, plenty of not-wealthy people break addictions with minimal help from the sources above AND without become lard@sses. So I have little patience with a "celebrity" who won't avail himself of the wonderful resources out there.
Most of all, I have ZERO PATIENCE with this insane and soul-destroying double-standard that says soothingly to a fat actor, "There, there just part of aging, and you still look great!" while shoving every actress who has gained a few pounds under the fat-shaming microscope and plastering her, with fat-shaming text, on magazine covers. People,
get with it already
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SnoozeAlarm — 10 years ago(November 28, 2015 06:44 AM)
The weight thing goes back a lot farther than Inception:
1993: Sniper: still looks great, only a drop older than 1986's Platoon.
2001: Training Day. 8 years later, now quite bloated.
If you look at the movies made in the period between those two, you will see that he gradually gains weight from year to year.
It should be against the law to use 'LOL'; unless you really did LOL!