Sara McGinnis
posted in Celebrities
It isn't often we're treated to a man's perspective on the pressure to be thin and fit in Hollywood, but Chris Pratt has recently opened up about both, as well as his nearly 2-year-old son Jack.
"They would send someone over to my house to measure me every week," the 35-year-old Guardians of the Galaxy actor recently explained of how movie studios would hound him to shape up by sending people to check in on him regularly.
"It was like I was on The Biggest Loser but there was no camera crew. They would send me prop guns… I would take a picture with it, pose with the gun so they could see how it looked in my hand. Meanwhile, what they’re secretly doing is, ‘How fat is Chris, still?’ And that’s what the photo was. They’re like, ‘Oh, we also need you to try on these gloves. Make sure it’s a full body shot with the glove on.’ Oh, yeah, thanks."
The man who gained a large amount of weight for his role in Delivery Man went on to share, "I'm sure I can’t relate to what females go through in Hollywood, but I do know what it feels like to eat emotionally. To be sad and make yourself happy with food, and then be almost immediately sad again, and then ashamed. Then, you to try to hide those feelings with more food. I know what that’s like. It’s a vicious cycle, and it’s a very real thing. So, I know what it’s like to have body image issues.
"I also know that, if you just work hard and you enlist the help of good coaches, and you are coach-able and willing to work hard, you can actually change that. I offer a course. It's $4,500. Anyone who has these issues, just get a hold of my people, and we’ll set it up. I’ll walk you through it. I don't really offer a course."
Opening up to People about his and wife Anna Faris' son being born nine weeks early, Chris Pratt explained, "We were scared for a long time. We prayed a lot."
"It restored my faith in God, not that it needed to be restored, but it really redefined it," the actor added. "The baby was so beautiful to us, and I look back at the photos of him and it must have been jarring for other people to come in and see him, but to us he was so beautiful and perfect."
The timing of Jack's birth and Chris' weight gain for a role seem to coincide, but I can't help but wonder if the stress of having a child in the NICU was the cause of the emotional eating he mentioned. Becoming parents was overwhelming to both my husband and I with there being so much newness and responsibility all at once, and our child was perfectly healthy. I can't imagine having health fears added on top.
All the same, I find it refreshing to hear a male star open up about the pressure he's been under. Famous females talk all the time about diets, exercise, and losing the baby weight, but it would be great to hear more from dads too.
Has your partner's weight fluctuated along with your pregnancies or remained steady?
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