Sean Astin Weight Gain

Wow. He better not put on a Charlie Chaplin costume or he might almost get raped ...

I thought that was Patton Oswalt for a second but he’s going in the opposite direction and looking like he’s lost weight recently.

OMG he's a walking time bomb!

“on the stocky side.”

Sigh. He will always be my #1 crush, no matter the weight.

He looks like a younger version of everyone on the DL

How's his gay little brother, Mackenzie, these days?

He looks like an elder butch now.

He needs to eat a sandwich.

Samwise Gamgee?

More like Samwide Gamgee.

He's the spitting image of his father.

Has he considered a slimming caftan?

Looks like he's had second *and* third breakfast!

Prepping for the Grandpa Barney Rubble character in a new version of the Flintstones.

After 50 all the fat genes go into overdrive, if you have them.

#goals

Is he jolly?

Wasn't he a teen pinup in the 80's?

What's in his snack purse?

He looks like a gremlin.

[quote] He's the spitting image of his father.

Keep me out of this.

He's bullfrogging.

Meh, looks like a hobbit.

It’s the Irish in him. They tend to run to fat after their ancestors emigrated to America. I can say it. I’m Irish American. I’ve got uncles who look just like him. He should try Wegovy or Mounjaro. It’ll help then lighten up on the alcohol as well. Lots of people are dropping alcohol, as well as dropping pounds. You lose your taste for it.

And wtf was with Patty Duke dying of intestinal blockage? I had intestinal blockage and got into the OR within hours after I demanded a CT scan. Patty Duke’s a movie star. She should’ve immediately been operated on. Was she living in Idaho? Not surprising there’s a shortage of competent physicians in Idaho.

R24 Sean is also half Jewish. Biological dad is Michael Tell. He looks like a tubby Jewish guy to me now.

Sean, lose the weight!

Damn, I loved Patty Duke. A National treasure.

Jesus, Sean. Knock it off.

He looks like he ate Mr. Frodo.

Sam Gamgee ate Gollum too

He’s fluctuated in weight for years. Also he’s about 5”5 so even a small weight gain will become obvious faster. Also did his mom ever come to terms with the fact that Michael Tell was his biological father. For years she denied it even after the DNA test showed he was Sean’s father. I think Sean had a “agree to disagree” attitude about it

He was very active in the past. This article references him as a 13-time marathoner. It was written in 2018.

He's so fat that before she died Patty Duke told him that not only was Desi Jr. not his father, she wasn't even his mother 😬

Unrecognizable lard ass. Hollywood, don't hire this man until he loses a least a 100 lbs. Next!

R31 two things: Sean Astin is 5 ft 7 in tall And yes his mother Patty Duke came to terms with Michael Tell being his biological father

R24 I totally agree with you that I do not know why Patty Duke died from a block intestine that ruptured. I read that she had been sick on and off 2 years prior with stomach problems, but as you said maybe if she was in LA with better doctors, who knows?

This is not just putting in a few lbs. He looks humongous. God is he having a major allergic reaction too. This guy needs to get to a medical clinic. He looks sick.

[QUOTE] Sigh. He will always be my #1 crush

5'7 and fat.

He looks like a thumb!

OP- THAT boy 👦 eats a LOT of Late night snacks 🍟🍕🌮🫔🥪🥟🍦🍭🧁

Omg. Well, I feel better about myself, now.

Rolypoly

[Quote]He's the spitting image of his father

Which one?

Patty Duke was one Hell of an actress! I (still) miss her. My assumption is that she might have had a higher threshold for pain than most because she truly was more than gainfully employed and her last husband was a Veteran, I'm quite certain she had good health insurance coverage. Patty Duke would have been phenomenal in some of the early seasons of AHS and Ryan Murphy was truly stupid to not cast her because she would have earned an Emmy like nothing since television was her main medium after all.

Oh well.

Sean looks horrible. Quite unhealthy. Like he's stuffed to the gills. Is that a medication? I'm coming across as very mean and I'm sorry.

[quote]He's the spitting image of his father.

Which one?

I like Patty Duke!

Pauly Shore is the best looking one today.

[quote]Pauly Shore is the best looking one today

would not have been my prediction in 1992.

R44 everything you wrote about Patty Duke I am in total agreement with 👍

R48 not by much

Nevermind I'd go with Brendan. Not in Whale form.

Was he molested on his childhood football movie like Corey Haim?

Irish-Jewish is not a good genetic combination. Look at Caroline Kennedy’s dog of a son.

Italian-Jewish is much better. Asian-Jewish is better, too.

Italian Irish is the hottest in guys, especially if they’re from Jersey.

To the poster above who claimed that MacKenzie is gay, that's simply an unfounded accusation. There is no evidence to that fact. NONE,

Even when he was "thin", he was one of those people who looked to be about 2 cheeseburgers away from exploding into morbid obesity.

Kind of like Janet Jackson.

Always good to hear from MacKenzie, R55.

Jewish Scandinavian can be hot.

Wtf gross

You're looking at prednisone therapy, my friends.

Lembas Bread = carbs

[quote]Italian Irish is the hottest in guys, especially if they’re from Jersey.

Chris Evans, Bradley Cooper and Zachary Quinto are all Irish/Italian mixes.

He had to gain 30 pounds to make the Lord of the Rings trilogy. On one of the production and post-production commentary tracks the producer says they paid to get a trainer to help him lose the weight.

He either did or didn’t lose it after filming those movies, I don’t know, but he did give them what they needed, and they meant well toward him afterward, but it was a setup to rebound anyway — and he obviously has.

[quote]He's the spitting image of his father

Spitters are quitters!

If he used to run marathons (from the article it sounds as if he did three per year, so he'd have always been in training), then abruptly stopped, that could easily explain the weight gain.

Marathon training means you can eat virtually anything all the time because you are burning an incredible number of calories. Stop the training but keep the eating habits... Boom.

Is Sean Astin the NEW Bridget Fonda?

Sean should hook up with Chrissy Metz. They would make some beautiful babies together.

I want to be in Sean, quite deeply.

He was so hot in Toy Soldiers.

R69 The music video by the German songstress?

R32 Runners get used to being able to eat what they want within reason.

Drop running just 1/2 an hour at 185lbs and you have 400 more daily calories that aren’t getting burned off

[QUOTE]I want to be in Sean, quite deeply.

R68 = cardiothoracic surgeon

He died real good on 24.

He was a fuckable addition to the eye candy in "Toy Soldiers", back in 1991, but Lord of the Rings taught him to love food (and Elijah's cock).

That's a shame. He was always attractive, even (or especially, in a way?) when heavy. It was a different look for a Hollywood actor but he carried it off with the cute face and dad-bod sex appeal. This state of things, though, is inadvisable.

He’s only 5’6”!

That's a beer belly

He represents my ideal.

He looks like Nathan Lane at Nathan's fattest.

The backwards baseball cap has always been douchy, but at 52…it’s just sad.

R51: We found the reclusive Richard Simmons!

I just saw a picture of his brother Mackenzie in The Last Days Of Disco (a film I’ve never seen). Holy hell, is HE beautiful. Or was. Whatever.

Sean has never done anything for me.

And yes, like others, I miss Patty. What an absolutely wonderful woman and actor.

Mackenzie has been nude in lots of things.

R11 You think Sean looks like Michael Tell?

R21 Sean’s father is Michael Tell not Desi Arnaz Hr.

I’ve never been attracted to him but he always seems like a genuinely nice guy. Hope he loses it for the sake of his health.

You give Sean a pass and wish him well, but you mock and ridicule Chrissy Metz every chance you get because she is carrying some extra pounds. Such a double standard. I smell misogyny, which is so typical of this board.

I’ve never been attracted to Bridget Fonda but she always seems like a genuinely nice lady. Hope she loses it for the sake of her health.

Lots of po-tay-toes.

Has anyone put him on the celebrity death pool thread?

R76 he is 5 ft 7 in tall 👍

Sad 😞- He can’t control his eating 🍽

Just like the actor from Law and Order - Criminal Intent, Vincent D’Ornofrio

He should ask his Aunt Cathy for help, now that his mom is dead.

MacKenzie is straight. Sorry, gays.

He's big, but damn, when was the last time Henry Winkler saw his own dock?

R95 I had no idea Henry was into boats, but I guess it makes sense, in real life he was terrified of motorcycles.

This blog says Mackenzie is “out as bisexual” but married to a woman. Found it when searching for nudes.

R96 LOL

Dock = dick

Mackenzie likes pussy, not the cock.

Hey, don't box me in! I like the pole and the hole!

Goonies never say diet!

Did either of them inherit the BiPolar?

My guess is the weight gain was from stopping the marathons but still eating, combined with blossoming during the pandemic. I have a few in-laws that really blossomed during the pandemic. When I saw them in person again after a couple of years, I was shocked--giant bellies. I hope he can take the weight off again, I've always liked Sean and he seems like a nice guy.

It's still in probate.

If you're fat, run. If you can't run, walk. If you can't walk, lift weights. If you can't lift weights, eat fruits and veggies and cut the whites (sugar, breads, pasta).

It only takes 15-30 minutes a day. Probably spend more time thumbing through your phone each day.

Exercise might speed up metabolism but the easiest way to lose weight is to EAT LESS. It works. It really, really works.

^just kidding. Idk what I'm talking about. I'm a 230lb fat whore. Brb eating a sleeve of Oreos.

No amount of praise feels as good as food tastes.

He's the spitting image of his TV Uncle, Fester.

Patty seemed to have Kennedy skin, like Caroline Kennedy and Eunice Shriver. JFK Jr was on the way to Kennedy skin when he died. Their skin is fine until middle age, then it rapidly ages. It’s a genetic thing. If you get fat, it’s far less noticeable.

It’s not from smoking or sun exposure. Think of all the people you’ve known in life who were sun worshippers and/or smokers. They don’t have such skin.

Well, Patty Duke was Irish-American too, so I guess that's the problem.

R87 And don't forget how the DL has acted towards Bridget Fonda, too. If its about a man...they're given benefit of the doubt and encouragement. A woman, especially a kind one that stays out of the limelight, its all insults and nasty Mean Girls commentary..and fucked up accusations about family members being Satanist abusers, or whatever.

So, why isnt any of those assholes on here accusing Astin of being abused or mental, or relatives being Satanist or whatever like they do Bridget? Exactly. Double standard, and bullshit. That aside, I don't get it. Astin looks alright. He was also in Stranger Things and looked OK. Saw him on the Connors episode and looked alright. He was always kinda chubby, though.

r111 you need to change your tampon

R112 And you need to change your urinary incontinence diaper.

Desi Jr paid of the DNA company to say he wasn't Desi Jr's son but we all know he is.

See how fat Desi Jr is, they are totally a thing.

Weight Watchers

I bet he snores.

It's kind of a pity that he isn't Lucille Ball's grandson as well as being Patty Duke's son. Even a straight male would be an instant DL icon with lineage like that.

Wow, Desi Arnaz Jr was quite the little fucker, wasn’t he?

Arnaz has a daughter, Julia Arnaz, from a relationship with model Susan Callahan-Howe in 1968 when they were both 15 years old; Julia's relationship to Desi Jr. was proven by a paternity test in 1991.[12]

He must get CPAP supplies delivered by the truckload!

In his book Sean describes himself as a "working actor." It was written in 2004 and he said he makes about $300,000 a year. Which he said, seems like a lot but not so in California.

He also said he was offered one million dollars to do "Lord of the Rings," and was all excited until he learned that it was for the TRILOGY, not per movies, which comes out to about the same as he was making, because he had to pay his own expenses in New Zealand where it was being shot.

I found him cute even with a little weight on him, but it's far too much in OP's picture. He just looks flat-out unhealthy. Sean is on the short side, so even modest weight gain will show more quickly on his frame. He had a weird transition from adolescence to adulthood. I saw him in "The Goonies" as a kid, and later in "Lord of the Rings" when that film came out, but I would've never realized it was the same person if I hadn't known otherwise. With a lot of people, you can see childhood photos of them and notice the resemblance between their younger and older selves, but with Sean, he almost looks like a completely different person to me.

Forget The Conners, he needs to go on some celebrity weight loss show or something.

Age does that to you. Just came back from our first national conference since 2018. Man everyone got as fat as the Grace & Frankie last season cast--- especially the women.

Looks like his precious ring is a ding.

He was cute fat here.

This is perhaps Sean’s most dramatic role.

Sad. Just sad.

He looks like director Latino director Guillermo del Toro. If Sean were Desi Arnaz Jr’s biological son, the resemblance would make sense. Hmmm…maybe Patty was right all along.

He can play the Spencer Tracy role in Chrissy Metz's reboot of "Father of the Bride."

Stupid, fat hobbit!

I agree R125 and it looks like he might be packing too.

Those other Hobbits need to gather and do an intervention and send him to summer fat camp. Maybe they can get that wizard guy to help too?

He looks like a thumb

He's like a human buttplug.

MACKENZIE IS STRAIGHT!

He’s never been a sex symbol so who cares if he’s fat?

“He’s a LARDASS!”

“He’s an ANGEL!!!”

^^❤️❤️

I will always remember him from this time in his life...fit fat and sexy as hell.

[quote]Those other Hobbits need to gather and do an intervention and send him to summer fat camp. Maybe they can get that wizard guy to help too?

Nah, the wizard can't do shit. They need a Gypsy to stroke his face and say "thinner."

Couldn’t they give him the One Ring to Rule them All, for a short while, that seemed to make Gollum quite svelte?

Astin looks like a walking heart attack on the show’s latest episode.

He wasn't a very good actor. Really hit the lottery with those LOTR movies.

Excess weight is very dangerous for men, as men tend to gain weight in their stomach/torso, surrounding the vital organs. This is unhealthy.

I still remember his sweater days.

Aww, he used to be so cute.

Repulsive

Now he looks like his fans.

He needs some dolls!

It's an exciting business!

[quote] You give Sean a pass and wish him well, but you mock and ridicule Chrissy Metz every chance you get because she is carrying some extra pounds

Who is this "you" you keep invoking? Do you assume all Dataloungers are just one person who is not yourself?

Saw this the other day and had the same thought.

R152 They spent months at a time living and working together in New Zealand for each of the three films. It's nice to see they are maintaining a lifetime bond.

He's always come across as a nice guy, so I hope he's happy and healthy.

He looks really fat in the video linked below which is titled “Lord of the Rings Cast Pay Tribute to Bernard Hill at Comic-Con Liverpool”.

Dominc Monaghan still looks great, though.