15 Celebrities Who Got Hot Once They Got Curves

We spend a lot of time talking about celebrity weight loss. Many people are often fascinated by the way the bodies of celebrities are constantly changing. It can be argued that there’s even a whole industry around this phenomenon. Most of the time, we’re focusing on how celebrities lose weight, sometimes getting incredible bodies as a result. However, the world is so focused on weight loss that weight gain is often seen as totally unhealthy. As a result of that, people who gain weight and attain incredible bodies that way are often overlooked, or worse, they’re seen as “letting themselves go” when the opposite is true. While going on about another person’s body isn’t the most productive thing to do with our time, seeing how these celebrities have changed for the better over the years by gaining weight is kind of fascinating, especially considering our thin-obsessed culture.

Some of the women on this list were some of the thinnest women in Hollywood, only to gain weight for health or other reasons. The great bodies they achieved, as a result, was just a side effect of that. Others were always at what could be considered a “healthy” weight and ended up gaining weight thanks to pregnancy or preparing for a specific role, then decided that it was more important to live their lives than taking the weight off right away. Still, others made their changes, not at the gym, but in a surgeon’s office, and ended up with bodies that are constantly admired. Regardless, all of these women are beautiful in their own way, they just happen to look better with a few pounds on rather than off. Here are fifteen women who gained weight and look better than ever.

15. Natalie Portman

Natalie Portman isn’t just known for being a beautiful and talented actress, she’s known for being really thin. She’s still thin by our standards today, but back in 2010, she lost 20 pounds and endured a lot of agony in order to play a prima ballerina in Black Swan. She was already really thin before going on the diet, and while she won an Oscar for the role, it came at a heavy cost: her health. “There were some nights that I thought I literally was going to die,” she said of her diet of carrots and almonds and eight hour days of rehearsals. She told Entertainment Weekly that being in the film was draining for her, both physically and emotionally. “It was the first time I understood how you could get so wrapped up in a role that it could sort of take you down.” Thankfully, she’s put that weight back on and is much healthier now. Not only does she look better, she seems happier, too.

14. Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley is another waif-life celebrity that has been simultaneously celebrated for that thinness and treated like she was sick because of it. She takes eating disorders like anorexia seriously because she has a history of them in her family. “I’ve got a lot of experience with anorexia. My grandmother and my great-grandmother suffered from it and I had a lot of friends at school who suffered from it, so I don’t think it’s anything to be taken lightly,” she told Express. She’s also gone on record about hating diets and not really sticking to one. “The very thought of a diet makes me want chips and ice cream, and I just hate going to the gym,” she said on the subject. Recently, she’s gained a little weight and she looks much better for it!

13. Paris Hilton

Before the Kardashians dominated reality TV, the airwaves used to belong to the Hiltons. Paris Hilton and her sister Nicky were all over TV and tabloids across America, and part of the reason they were so famous was their thinness. Now it’s 2017 and curvy figures are what’s in, and it appears Paris has recognized that. She gained a little weight in 2011, which attracted a lot of attention. She lost weight more recently, but she’s never returned to the stick-thin figure she was when she was on TV. Her mom was the one who gave her a wakeup call about her hard-partying lifestyle and its effects on her health. “She would be like, ‘You’re way too skinny. It doesn’t look good,’” Hilton recalls. “I said, ‘Mom, everyone is skinny in Hollywood. It’s just the way it is.’ And she’s like, ‘No. It’s not normal.’” She ended up gaining 20 pounds but then was plagued with pregnancy rumors despite the fact that she was still 125 pounds. “Even if I’m a few pounds overweight, people will be like, ‘Oh, she’s fat,’” says Hilton. “And it’s not fair that it’s like that, but it is.” She’s right: she looked great at 125 pounds and it says a lot about our society that that’s where the paparazzi went with that.

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