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Mark Wahlberg says that gaining weight for movies is “fun for about a week”
During a Feb. 18 appearance on The View, the actor said “it’s not healthy”
He shared that it’s easier for him to lose the weight than gain it, saying, “you don’t want to eat when you already are full”
Mark Wahlberg says gaining weight for roles is “fun for about a week,” and said that the hardest part is eating “when you are already full.”
“I’m actually in the middle of making, or preparing to make, a movie right now where I have to put on weight. I’m eating everything and anything in sight,” the actor, 54, told the hosts of The View during a Feb. 18 appearance on the talk show. He shared that putting on weight is “fun for about a week” because it’s a break from his regular regimen: “I usually try to stay healthy.”
Mark Wahlberg shared his dramatic weight swings for the film “Father Stu.”
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But after a week or so of an indulgent diet, Wahlberg says, “my feet are swollen when I wake up, my hands are swollen.”
Wahlberg regularly documents his 4 a.m. workouts and ultra-healthy diets. When he gained 30 lbs. for the 2022 film Father Stu, he said it was “really difficult.” As he told The View, “it’s not healthy” to go to such extremes.
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“I vowed the last time I did it, about a year ago, that I wasn’t going to do it again and here I am,” Wahlberg, who was on hand to promote Hallow, a prayer app, said. “But it’s kind of what the part requires and so, I got to get through.”
When co-host Joy Behar quipped, “then you can take Ozempic and lose it,” Walhberg clarified that it’s not the weight loss that’s a challenge for him.
Mark Wahlberg hits the gym.
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“For what it’s worth, I don’t have a hard time losing it, even with me, with fasting and exercise. But putting it on is just hard. You don’t want to eat when you already are full,” he said. “And I started to enjoy the things I hadn’t enjoyed in awhile when I realized they kind of make you feel bad, ultimately, at the end of the day.”
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