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‘My Name Is Earl’ Actor Flaunts Stunning New Look After Losing 250lbs
Earl Alum is my name. Many were reminded of Ethan Suplee’s enormous weight loss since 2010 when he made an appearance at the Chicago Chronic Con.
Over the course of 15 years, the 49-year-old shed 250 pounds after beginning the process about a year after the conclusion of the NBC sitcom.
The actor has avoided Ozempic, in contrast to the popular Hollywood tendency, and has even used his reputation as a successful natural weight-loss advocate to criticize celebrities who have turned to the drug.
Ethan Suplee credited his decision to his wife, Brandy Lewis
Even though he still dwarfed his former co-star Jaime Pressly’s tiny stature, he was a shell of his former self when he was seen at the event on Friday, October 10.
According to Bored Panda’s earlier story, Suplee weighed 550 pounds in 2002.
However, he did not make the decision to turn his life around on his own: Brandy Lewis, his now-wife, was at the heart of everything.
“I became, for the first time in my life, kind of interested in the future and having experiences with her,” he said on his American Glutton podcast.
The physical change did not herald an inner enlightenment
The experiences he was referring to involved things “like spending a day walking around a museum or going on a trip or hiking that I just wasn’t physically able to do.”
One other thing he was not able to do in his heavier days was use a bathroom scale. And so every time he wanted to check his weight, he would make a trip to a shipping center “because back then there weren’t scales that really went that high in doctor’s offices,” he explained.
Suplee claims he is upset even though he is a completely different person now.
He clarified in February 2025 that he had hoped for inner enlightenment, but it seems that this is not included in the box and that it requires effort, much like his outward achievements.
It was then that he established that weight loss was not a destination
“I thought my enlightenment would come through losing weight and so every time I lost a lot of weight and there was no internal change,” Suplee said at the time.
“It was terrifically disappointing to me and I found myself gaining weight again,” he elaborated.
At that moment, he understood that weight loss was a process rather than a final goal.
“What happens if you put up this finish line and decide that you only need to shed 100 pounds after looking at your weight?” “You know what’s next?” he reportedly asked.
Suplee admitted that keeping a good diet was not easy
He is making progress in the psychological area, though, much like he has in the weight-loss arena.
“So, I’ve dismantled that kind of structured thinking. I’m going to be dealing with this for the rest of my life. That is a given, just like sobriety, every single day, I am going to have to confront staying sober.”
“Eating a proper balanced diet, and it’s not easy, and it’s never going to be easy, but it isn’t as hard as it was on day one, and that’s good,” Suplee elaborated.
Suplee is not a fan of Ozempic
Suplee also discussed Ozempic, the weight-loss medication that comes up in rumors on social media whenever a famous person loses a significant amount of weight.
He described it as a helpful tool “for anyone who’s morbidly obese.”
He took it a step further, saying, “Any tool that assists them in losing weight is super useful.”
“If you’re gonna get surgery, if you’re gonna take Ozempic, and you have a massive amount of weight to lose, then I’m happy for anything that assists a person in doing that,” he empathized.
Suplee, however, was less forgiving of those who were simply overweight (and not obese).
He fears for people who use the medication irresponsibly
“I did many fad diets where you lose weight incredibly rapidly and you’re losing a lot of lean tissue,” Suplee recalled.
“I’m not really a fan of people that are not clinically obese using these [medications] to just get, like…, super thin.”
He clarified that he was concerned about Ozempic users who lose “5 to 10 pounds” and then stop the program only to gain the weight back.
“I think it’s irresponsible for people in Hollywood to be doing that,” he told the Daily Mail.
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