• @chagall@lemmy.world
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    4611 months ago

    Did Russell Crowe gain weight for a movie role, bc of health issues or because he discovered the all you can eat buffet on Carnival Cruises?

    • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Role in this case, went up to 270lbs and lost 50lbs after

      To paraphrase him “People can say what they want about my weight, I can bench press them, the reverse isn’t true”

    • @WarmSoda@lemmy.worldOP
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      11 months ago

      I don’t know any details of the picture. But gaining weight as you get older is completely normal for men and women. If you’re expecting to have a 25 year old physic at 50 you’re in for a lot of depression long before you reach 50.

      Plus people like Crow worked out a lot. You don’t get movie star muscle without doing a lot of work, and probably some short cuts. When you stop doing that you gain weight that isn’t muscle.

      Shit, even going from a semi active lifestyle to a 9-5 office job will add a belly if you’re not hitting the gym.

      He looks normal for a guy his age, and for what he’s done for decades.

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        11 months ago

        Gym? If you go to the gym to not get a belly you are doings wrong already, you can never outtrain your fork.

        People get fatter as they get older because they don’t adjust their calorie intake to their decreased level of activity, there is nothing about a human body that says you have to get fatter as you age

        Source: am a fat fuck

      • @set_secret@lemmy.world
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        My wife is 49 and she’s hotter now than at 25 when we met. She has visible abs and has had two kids.

        You absolutely can have a good body as you age if you eat well and move a bit.

        Russell is above a healthy weight because he’s spent years and years indulging with his excessive wealth to enable it, he needs to put down the fork and pick up the weights.