{"id":1798,"date":"2016-04-04T14:20:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1798"},"modified":"2016-04-04T14:20:12","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T21:20:12","slug":"wentworth-miller-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/04\/04\/wentworth-miller-opens-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Wentworth Miller Opens Up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The German word “schadenfreude” refers to deriving pleasure at someone else’s misfortune.\u00a0 While I can’t say I’m guilty of this on a regular basis, there is one exception – when someone with an enviable physique gets fat.\u00a0 It’s a horrible thing to admit, but it really does give me pleasure.\u00a0 In some ways, I like the person more because they go up and down like the rest of us – with the exception of Carnie Wilson<\/strong>, who famously said, “What does it matter if I go up and down 20 pounds?”\u00a0 When does “down” kick in?\u00a0 One sexy guy who doesn’t seem to care one iota about his enormous weight fluctuation is Channing Tatum<\/strong>.\u00a0 Between films, he goes on eating binges and stops working out.\u00a0 And yet, the minute he has to be in shape, poof, the six-pack is back.\u00a0 I’m fairly confident he’s made a deal with the Devil or perhaps a pharmaceutical company.\u00a0 Or it could simply be because he’s only 35 (bounce back after 40 and then call me).<\/p>\n

Then there’s Wentworth Miller<\/strong>.\u00a0 This week, he publicly acknowledged a meme which shows him shirtless in his Prison Break<\/em><\/strong> prime next to a photo of him a few years later, significantly heavier.\u00a0 Apparently this meme annoyed Went because at the time of his weight gain, he spiraled downhill mentally and was suicidal.\u00a0 He says, “In 2010, at the lowest point in my adult life, I was looking everywhere for relief\/comfort\/distraction.\u00a0 And I turned to food.\u00a0 It could have been anything.\u00a0 Drugs.\u00a0 Alcohol.\u00a0 Sex.\u00a0 But eating became the one thing I could look forward to.”\u00a0 Why, oh why, didn’t he choose sex?\u00a0 If he had chosen sex and alcohol, maybe I would have had a chance.\u00a0 While I don’t wish him pain, it is hard to have too much sympathy for someone who gained weight after a large part of his success came from showing off his once-hot body.\u00a0 As it turns out, this meme had two positive ramifications for Wentworth: 1) it reminded him that those tough days were behind him, and b) it showed him smiling.\u00a0 He was happy.\u00a0 Well, of course he was – he had probably just eaten!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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