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.
Image credit: Paltrow: Glenn Watson
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