Tom Hanks can never get fat or skinny for a movie ever again
Proving the old adage that life is like a box of chocolates—eventually, you’re gonna get diabetes—Tom Hanks revealed to David Letterman this week that he’s been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, a problem which Hanks plans to live with as chummily as he does the rest of the human race. However, one thing will definitely change: You won’t be seeing Hanks gain or lose weight to play a role anymore. As he recently told The Guardian, all of the packing on of pounds for parts like his paunchy baseball manager in A League Of Their Own, or the dramatic loss of them for movies like Cast Away, “may have had something to do” with getting diabetes—a hypothesis that CBS News medical contributor Dr. Holly Phillips agrees with, saying that sort of thing makes it so “the equilibrium of the body is just completely off.”