It's weird to suddenly ballooned up so rapidly. I mean most obese people start of being fat most of their life, but not up until his 40s he still looked fairly normal and healthy. Did he just have enough of being a Hollywood pin up and think why not just get fat? Or did he have a break down?
shareI believe he still smoked up til Last Tango and then he quit. That probably accounts for the huge weight gain in Apocalypse Now which was shot in '76.
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Everyone has their own vices. His was obviously food and I believe sex as well. But were all guilty in over indulging on whatever it is.
I don't think anyone alive now or before or even in the future will be completely well balanced in their routines, behaviour or in their life in whatever form.
There always something you will indulge more than others. It's just human nature.
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I don't think it really happened as 'overnight' as people think.
He was having weight issues by the time of "One Eyed Jacks", 1959.
And he finally 'blew up' in the mid seventies, after he turned 50.
Like a lot of us, Marlon always had a sweet tooth but the severe weight gain was after Tango.
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I read once that even when Brando was a young man in his 20's, he would often pig out voraciously on junk food, and then he would work out like a mad man to keep the fat off.
So it sounds to me that the main change later in life is not his eating habits but rather that he stopped bothering to do the necessary work to keep the fat off.
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Both his mother and sister were alcoholics. I don't know much about his father except that he was physically abusive to the family.
Addictions are often a response to trauma and the lack of feeling loved and secure. I believe that if Brando smoked and ate to excess it was to avoid the alcoholism in his family, which I would guess that he saw as the greater threat since he was living with it every day as a child and a teen.
The rumor is that he started splitting his pants during the filming of "Mutiny on the Bounty". I don't know if that was actually factual.
Obviously he had emotional/self-esteem problems as demonstrated by his various excesses.
You can never really realize what someone else has suffered in life. He was at least lucky to have an outlet, for many years, for his energy and power through acting---"On the Waterfront" and "A Steetcar named Desire" are my favorites.
BTW, I notice that a lot of actors/actresses get porky when they begin middle age. I'm not sure why. Maybe they just get tired of keeping up the image. Maybe it's genetic or just slowing down. Whatever.
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One of his girlfriends actually left him because of his food addiction, she locked the fridge with a padlock and later found it broken as Brando had broken it with tools and eaten a huge piece of cheese
shareWas it at least good cheese?
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