Boys Got Back, tom cruise, val kilmer, adrien grenier, alec baldwin, clay aiken, john travolta...

'Us' Calls Out Fatties With Their 'Hunk To Chunk' Photographic Retrospective

For the first time in recorded history, we actually felt sorry for poor chubster Kevin Federline yesterday. After all, as those golfing pictures revealed, that he's now sporting a Buddha big enough to hamper his golf swing. But apparently the slideshow-happy folks at Us Weekly didn't share our sympathies; in the wake of the revelation of Fat K-Fed, they've posted a slideshow featuring other formerly thin celebs who've gone from "hunk to chunk" in recent years. But being the stubborn argumentative types that we are, we're going to have to disagree with their take on all of these pound-packers' alleged downfalls. Sure, Clay Aiken's no prize these days (was he ever?), and Alec Baldwin certainly looked sexier in Glengarry Glen Ross than he currently does on 30 Rock, but a few members of Us' Fatso Club actually look far hotter with some extra meat on their bones. Our rebuttals, with pictorial evidence, after the jump.

Here, we present the choices on Us' list which we happen to agree with; these guys either went a teensy bit overboard over the holidays or, in Tom Cruise's case, simply haven't been following L. Ron Hubbard's highly scientific detox plan:

Tom Cruise, then and now:

Clay Aiken, then and now:

Val Kilmer, then and now:

Alec Baldwin, then and now:

But! We happen to find these so-called "chunks" far finer now that they've gone from stick-thin, skinny-jeans-wearing hipster wannabes to, well, the closest they're capable of coming to looking like a Man:

Ryan Gosling, then and now:

Adrien Grenier, then and now:

John Travolta, a controversial decision for sure, but we think Now is preferable if only for the absence of that horrendous hairpiece:

[Photo Credits: Wireimage, Getty, Pacific Coast News, INFPhoto, Retna, Bauer-Griffin]

FROM HUNK TO CHUNK [Us]

3:42 PM on Wed Mar 5 2008
By Molly Friedman
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CourageousCoward at 03:53 PM on 03/05/08
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What about Eminem ballooning up to over 200 lbs?!
Mr-Busy at 03:57 PM on 03/05/08
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A photo essay about chunky men and no mention of Rosie O'Donnell?
Det. Philangie at 04:09 PM on 03/05/08
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@Mr-Busy: I was going to say something about getting closer to gender equality in celeb photo essays but then I scrolled too far.
ManPurse at 04:18 PM on 03/05/08
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Adrian Grenier just gets more and more disgusting.
NoWireHangers at 04:19 PM on 03/05/08
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What delicious schadenfreude for a history of women getting reamed by the tabloids.

Here are a few more for roasting: Leo, Tom Hanks, John Favreau, who else am I missing?
raincoaster at 04:19 PM on 03/05/08
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Grenier is no fatty. He's just about perfect. Wouldn't want to shatter the poor boy during an energetic frisbee game or anything...
raincoaster at 04:20 PM on 03/05/08
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@NoWireHangers: VINCE VAUGHN, yes?
NoWireHangers at 04:23 PM on 03/05/08
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@raincoaster: A gross oversight rightly corrected. I'd love to see the fat remake of Swingers.
Guadalahonky at 04:24 PM on 03/05/08
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Alec Baldwin really is becoming Charles Nelson Reilly. It's eerie.
Lula Mae Broadway at 04:40 PM on 03/05/08
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Say what you will about Alec, but I'd still do him. Worked with him once about 10 years ago and the sexual energy coming off of from him is powerful.

Ladies, you could make do with a thumb. I just sayin'...
Mr-Busy at 04:42 PM on 03/05/08
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@Det. Philangie:
They would all have to go on Oprah wearing a Speedo to make things really equal... excuse me while I throw up...
Mr-Busy at 04:43 PM on 03/05/08
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@Lula Mae Broadway: You "worked with him" - like doing what? Acting? Hopefully not taking childcare lessions from him?
switchbladesister at 04:50 PM on 03/05/08
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@Guadalahonky: we could only hope for such a glorious day.
Mr-Busy at 05:05 PM on 03/05/08
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Ok, wagers out - who'll be first to be seen wearing a "man dress" ala the late Alan Carr?
SugartitsMcFirecrotch at 05:13 PM on 03/05/08
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@NoWireHangers: Jon Favreau just lost a bunch of weight and looks great these days:

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The Authority at 05:30 PM on 03/05/08
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What: and no mention of Jon Stewart?

Then: [www.cnn.com]

Now: [l.yimg.com]
spankhaus at 05:34 PM on 03/05/08
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Weird, just yesterday we were talking about Vincent D'Onofrio's chubbo status and how hot he was just 5 years ago.
whitiris at 05:43 PM on 03/05/08
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Isn't that a picture of Gosling when he had his "Lovely Bones" weight gain and beard? I saw him a few weeks ago at a bar and he looked trim and delicious.

And for the list, Jeremy Sisto. Although, I prefer him with the extra pounds and scruff.
DukeLaCrosse at 05:47 PM on 03/05/08
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Luke Wilson is quite the tubby bitch these days, isn't he?
raincoaster at 05:49 PM on 03/05/08
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Viggo looks yummy with a little extra meat on him. But then, he doesn't look bad scrawny either.
raincoaster at 05:52 PM on 03/05/08
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hack-a-rific at 06:51 PM on 03/05/08
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Gosling and Grenier look perfectly fine with their 'weight'- I hate them.

@DukeLaCrosse: lol, Luke has put on a few lbs (I'm guessing the munchies are starting to finally show) but damn if don't wanna snuggle up with him even more!
Trixie from Toronto at 07:15 PM on 03/05/08
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@raincoaster: Good God that's a feast for the eyes. I even found him distractingly hot with that bad slicked back hair in Eastern Promises.

Also ... I find it sickly gratifying the male Hollywood stars are now being subjected to this bullshit. Welcome to the party, boys! Isn't it fun?
Trixie from Toronto at 07:16 PM on 03/05/08
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@ManPurse: It's the Ebola Hilton taint. Ever since he boned her, it's been all downhill.
StabbyMcStabberson at 07:49 PM on 03/05/08
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I can't believe they left out Russell Crowe. Even though he's larger than my Honda, he's still muy caliente.
SugartitsMcFirecrotch at 09:32 PM on 03/05/08
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@The Authority: Hey, leave my Jon alone!

I don't mind a bit of meat on my men . . . better than scrawny, pencil-necked stickboys. That whole "emo" look - meh.
yvonnjanae at 09:39 PM on 03/05/08
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Come on, don't y'all find it suspicious that most of the photos were taken within a six-month time span? No one gains that much weight. Those are just photos taken at bad angles for the most part.
Miss d at 10:12 PM on 03/05/08
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@ManPurse: Yeah - funnily those photographs were taken just 30 minutes apart...
Little Mintz Sunshine at 10:40 PM on 03/05/08
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GBut is now....GBut-N-Gut...Still wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating haggis. The smoking? Yeah, we'd have to work on that. The drinking? That's a keeper.

Re@SugartitsMcFirecrotch: Yeah, this week. Favreau goes up and down like Anna Nicole. Dude, craft service is the Devil.
yukonrye at 06:22 AM on 03/06/08
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Alec Baldwin is even funnier on 30 Rock because he's fat.
TonyD at 06:55 AM on 03/06/08
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Now Clay Aiken looks like Jimmy Glick!
gwendolyn at 08:56 AM on 03/06/08
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@Mr-Busy: I believe they were focussing on 'attractive' men who have gone 'chunk'...
gwendolyn at 09:00 AM on 03/06/08
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"Ryan Gosling IS Rob Reiner in 'See, I've Made More Hit Movies Than You, Dad. So Take That!'

Directed by Ron Howard...
shadymilkman at 10:10 AM on 03/06/08
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@Tippi from Toronto:

HAHAHAHA

give any one of them a role to play a superhero and see how fat they really are ...

tara reid still cant get those crop circle nipples out of the public memory ... and she was trying to IMPROVE herself.

sorry ladies its a catch 22 ... look beautiful have babies and continue looking beautiful, hayek/aguilera/etc did it, so it has to be doable.
raincoaster at 11:55 AM on 03/06/08
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@shadymilkman: Hayek doesn't think it is. She hates her body now. And Catherine Zeta-Jones just called herself "over the hill" and said she's too old for sex scenes.
ohyeth at 01:44 PM on 03/06/08
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I cannot believe I just saw a picture of Kevin Federline with "Hunk" over it. Hunk, my fat ass.
Superstarsteve at 07:03 AM on 03/09/08
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When we're not sitting in front of a computer at home, it's one at work, if it's not a computer, it's the TV and when we're not at home, we're in a car. Keeping off weight these days not only means watching what you eat, but unplugging as well. Just a thought.
chuchobaby at 07:52 PM on 03/11/08
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what about jack black? or chris farley? (Yeah, i know he's dead, but he had his blowup phase)