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A Hollywood fat suit chronology | gwynethfat_l
IN TOO DEEP Skinny Gwynnie packed on the pounds for the Farrelly Brothers' ''Shallow Hal''
Paltrow: Glenn Watson
By Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca
Nicholas Fonseca watches ''Days of Our Lives'' religiously and thinks washing dishes by hand is the cheapest form of therapy on earth.

For a town obsessed with caloric intake, Hollywood sure loves to get big. Ever since ''Weird Al'' Yankovic waddled around in ''Fat,'' his 1988 parody of Michael Jackson's ''Bad,'' a parade of svelte stars has donned prosthetic fat suits for laughs. (But not Brad Pitt, who played a former heavyweight in the Nov. 22 episode of ''Friends'' -- ironically, the Thanksgiving installment.) Here's where some other faux fatties land on the scale of good humor.


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