Mark Wahlberg shared new photos of himself on Instagram looking a little different.  The star has gained 20 lbs in three weeks for his movie Stu.

“From this 3 weeks ago, to this, now,” Mark wrote.

His wife Rhea posted a comment in support saying, “And it looks just as hot in person baby [heart emoji].”

 

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Early last month he appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and explained, “I’m playing a guy who was a fighter—he was many things. He was a fighter, he moved to L.A. to become an actor, he fell in love with a girl, he had an accident, he had an outer-body spiritual experience, he decided to become a priest. He died of a rare disease, IBM, but he had a big impact on a lot of people in a very short amount of time.”

He told Jimmy, “After we do the boxing scenes, I get to put on as much weight as possible over the course of the film, so I’m challenging myself to put on 30 pounds in the next six weeks,. They want me to do it as healthy as possible. I’m like, ‘Dude, I’ve been on such a regimen for so long, I just want to eat everything in sight.’ I want to go to bakeries, I want to go to Denny’s, I want to get pancakes. I want to get everything that I could possibly get my hands on.”

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