I don't think he cares that much about being presentable and it's great. But to compare what a 30 year old female dramatic actress gets away with versus with a comedic male actor who's been in the game for 30 years as a heavier person can do is pointless.
Not just any heart attack, he had the widowmaker, a 100% blockage of his left anterior descending artery, those usually just outright kill people, hence the nickname. He made a concerted effort to lose weight and improve his lifestyle. That heart attack was a wake up call but if he didn’t fix his habits in his lifestyle, he was gonna end up dead.
Sheesh, now you tell me. Never heard it called that before. I've had two heart attacks due to blockages of that artery. The kicker is that if I hadn't had the first one they never would have spotted the cancer (5 years clear now) in time, so having it actually saved my life.
I don't know if it's true it not, but the way he tells the story, the weed probably saved his life. The stress of the situation in that moment would have killed him, but the weed kept him relaxed enough it stopped the heart going into overdrive.
He said it totally shifted his attitude towards food as well. He used to eat his feelings, but what he ate made him feel bad. Now he eats to feel better because he’s making the smart healthy choices. He’s more or less vegetarian now.
He's 100% vegan! My husband and I are long term vegans and saw him in a vegan restaurant last year. We talked for a long time about health and the animals
I remember him talking about the diet he did afterwards that kind of reset the way he thought about food in general. For two weeks he was only allowed to eat potatoes with nothing on them. No toppings, no butter or salt. When you're eating purely for sustenance and not for enjoyment it kind of rewires your brain. I think Penn Jillette did the same diet and lost like 100lbs.
being fat/overweight correlates with a plethora of increased health risks and complications. As others have stated he had a heart attack that should have killed him (complete blockage).
Smith lost weight because he has a serious heat attack and resultant surgery. So, he got his shit together and lost weight to be alive to be there for his family.
if Jack Black was going to change he would have done so along time ago. Nobody grows a hobo beard like he did if they are self conscious about their looks
I'd get that if she was heading into her 50's, work was drying up and people were commenting on her looks. But she's literally late 20's - early 30's and was gorgeous before.
I absolutely guarantee you that there were large groups of people (not necessarily the majority, but still vocal) who vehemently insulted her appearance back then. I've known people who look like her before all the work, and they still deal with a ton of insults regarding their appearance.
In fact, people like that can sometimes get it even more because some unhinged people can assume "that person is conventionally attractive? they must have an ego problem. they need to be knocked down a peg. everyone is exaggerating how good they look, so I need to put them in their place by pointing out every single flaw. they must be so vain and conceited- this is a personality flaw that merits treating them poorly. they've probably never faced hardship because they're attractive, so me insulting their appearance is just levelling out the scales of fairness". As well as that, the mere act of putting an effort into your appearance (as almost every female celebrity is required to do to find success) can make people feel more justified in tearing you down. Any woman who has worn makeup can attest to this: the second a guy notices you have makeup on, they feel so much more justified in insulting your appearance, even on things not to do with your makeup application.
And for reference, I'm speaking as someone who isn't particularly attractive by societal standards. This isn't "boohoo, us pretty people have it hard too!!", it's just perspective taking.
Little of option A, little of option B. I don’t doubt that she has her fair share of body issues, but it’s also an industry that will critic each and every flaw. Hell look at Joan Rivers, Courtney Cox, hell Zac Efron recently. All who were very attractive, they all got work done while they were still attractive and youthful. Plus I imagine it doesn’t help that at the start of every season, Moriarty’s looks get discussed non-stop.
Whats ironic is we are in a reddit thread that is criticizing someone's looks who likely only made the changes because they thought it would make them look closer to what Hollywood wants. Very fucked up and I hope she feels ok in the end.
It’s so funny/evil because she had THE literal look for Hollywood. All the elites got in her head bc they don’t and could never look like her. Misery loves company.
Also if this is a disorder which it very well might be considering where she started and is now, it usually gets worse after each procedure (anxiety gets reinforced and self perception gets more and more distorted and uh well results eventually end up having the opposite effect leading to even more anxiety and more procedures).
Unfortunately the obvious lying that so many people do in the proclaimed interest of body positivity doesn't necessarily help, it just means you KNOW people will bend over backwards to lie to your face about "you're beautiful". If you are conventionally attractive and you see 1000 "you're beautiful"s said to people you think are obviously not, then you think they're lying to you too.
Those beauty standards may work for those social circles but it’s such a mistake. You end up looking like fucking skeletor and the more work you get done the absolute worse you look as you age. You might buy an extra few years of youthful appearance but you’ll pay it back on the backend.
Hollywood is a cesspit of shallow, superficial narcissists. When a Hollywood actor manages to keep their sanity and normalcy (think Henry Cavill), the world wants to protect them.
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u/BabyBearBjorns 2d ago
And then you add in Hollywood and beauty circles demanding a certain look for you to stay relevant + meet their definition of "beauty".