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Meg Ryan Becomes Latest Member Of Reviled 'Fat Suit' Club
Posted by Mark Graham at 7:50 AM on July 26, 2008
To say that Meg Ryan's career is in a free-fall would be to imply that her career hasn't already hit rock bottom. While it's true that she's poised for a potential comeback in this fall's remake of The Women, anyone with half a brain realises that her star died the day the news broke that she was schtupping Russell Crowe on the set of Proof Of Life back in 2000. Making matters even worse for America's Former Sweetheart™, in Meg's newest (straight-to-DVD) movie called My Mom's Hot Boyfriend, she becomes the latest in a long string of actresses to strap herself into a fat suit only to magically "slim down" to win the heart of a handsome man — a trick which stopped being funny the second time that the Friends gang went to that well. While we're not about to get up on a pedestal and start going off about the offensiveness of fat suits, this news did prompt us to go back and take a look at some of the stars who have donned prosthetics to plump up on-screen in the past (rarely, if ever, to humorous effect). Play along with our latest round of Defamer Bingo after the jump.
[Photo Credits: The Makeup Gallery]
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jason1007
Posted 8:24 AM 26/7/08
that's no fat suit
jason1007
Old No.7
Posted 8:21 AM 26/7/08
And in yet another Hollywod re-make, Meg Ryan and her fat suit will be the title character in the new production of Howard the Duck.
Old No.7
Leviticus_71
Posted 8:20 AM 26/7/08
Damn that Eddie Murphy is so hot!
Leviticus_71
brechtgirl
Posted 8:15 AM 26/7/08
"Well, I put on the suit and I went outside and walked around. It was actually very interesting, because I was really nervous about being found out. But when I walked around, nobody would even make eye contact with me. Like nobody would even look in my direction. Because I think when you get a sense of someone being slightly outside what we all consider normal, you think, oh it's polite not to look. But actually, it's incredibly isolating. And it really upset me." -- good ol' Gwyneth
brechtgirl
Xylo
Posted 8:47 AM 26/7/08
Haha, the comments on the DailyMail site; "pity she cannot put on a personality suit".
Courtney Cox was best; fat Monica rocked!
Xylo
WasatchMan
Posted 8:40 AM 26/7/08
Cox, Paltrow, Kate Walsh, Ryan Reynolds, Julia Roberts, Kathleen Turner, and the egregious Eddie Murphy were the ones I recognized. And I am thoroughly embarrassed by this knowledge.
WasatchMan
raincoaster
Posted 9:47 AM 26/7/08
Psyche! They're all Kirstie Alley!
raincoaster
shag_carpet_bomb
Posted 9:47 AM 26/7/08
I kinda though fat Monica rocked too!
shag_carpet_bomb
bittergreen
Posted 1:17 PM 26/7/08
Shocked as I am at the revelation that Meg Ryan's career is at rock-bottom, I was more scandalized by the implication "Friends" was ever funny.
bittergreen
levari
Posted 1:35 PM 26/7/08
by the time 'hairspray' came out, i was so over the whole fatsuit shtick i came claws sharpened and bearing dramamine--and to my surprise found the tran-volta performance tender, witty and romantic, and respectful, and yeah--frickin' beautiful. if you don't loathe your own body, your own human frailty, you can bust any amount of poundage--real or assumed--and still wind up the best looking person in the room. to hell with lemon-suckin' skeletors, edna--you're timeless to me.
levari
LLH
Posted 2:32 PM 26/7/08
@levari: travolta wasn't acting...he was just bein' himself.
LLH
woolfman
Posted 7:46 PM 26/7/08
I always thought fat Monica looked like Marie Osmond.
woolfman
TootieFields
Posted 11:38 AM 27/7/08
But will Meg also be able to remove the Joker mask that has become her face after all the plastic surgeries?
TootieFields