How Celebrities Gain Weight FastCelebrity Weight Gain

Losing or gaining weight for a role can take its toll on the body, but many actors are willing to put themselves through it and sometimes even get rewarded with Academy Awards for all their effort.

Find out how celebrities gain weight fast, from stopping working out to melting ice cream in the microwave and drinking it. Some even manage to go up to 5,000 calories per day in order to gain all the weight for a role, and then have a hard time getting rid of it.

Renée Zellweger

With a 4,000 calories per day diet, the actress gained weight for both the original “Bridget Jones’s Diary” in 2001 and for the 2004 sequel. It was all fatty foods and ice cream the first time around, but Zellweger worried about packing on 30 pounds again.