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‘My Name Is Earl’ Actor Flaunts Stunning New Look After Confessing Losing 250lbs Didn’t Make Him Happy
My Name is Earl alum Ethan Suplee appeared at the Chicago Chronic Con, and the sighting reminded many of the massive amount of weight he has lost since 2010.
The 49-year-old started the process around a year after the NBC sitcom ended, and he lost 250 lbs over 15 years.
Unlike the raging Hollywood trend, the actor has steered clear of Ozempic and even used his platform as a successful natural weight loser to slam stars who have resorted to the pharmaceutical.
Highlights
- Ethan Suplee has lost a total of 250 pounds over the last 15 years without using Ozempic or weight-loss surgery.
- He credits his wife, Brandy Lewis, as the inspiration behind his decision to turn his life around.
- At his heaviest, Suplee weighed 550 pounds and had to use a shipping scale to track his weight.
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Ethan Suplee credited his decision to his wife, Brandy Lewis
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He was snapped at the event on Friday, October 10, standing next to his former co-star, Jaime Pressly, 28, and while he still dwarfed her slight build, he was a shadow of what he used to be.
In 2002, as previously reported by Bored Panda, Suplee tipped the scales at 550 lbs.
But his decision to change his life around was not entirely organic: At the center of it was his now-wife Brandy Lewis.
“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
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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.
Despite being a new person with no resemblance to his old self, Suplee says he is disappointed.
In February 2025, he explained that he had hoped for an inner enlightenment, but apparently, that is not part of the package, and like his external accomplishments, it takes work.
It was then that he established that weight loss was not a destination
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“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.
It was then that he realized losing weight was a journey, not a destination.
“If you look at your weight and you go like, ‘I just need to lose 100lbs, and you set up this finish line, well, what happens when you lose the 100 lbs? What’s next, you know?” he was reported as saying.
Suplee admitted that keeping a good diet was not easy
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But like his victories in the weight-loss department, he is winning ground in the psychological realm.
“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.”
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“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
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Suplee also touched on Ozempic, the weight-loss pharmaceutical that surfaces in social media speculation whenever a celeb loses a dramatic 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.”
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“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.
But Suplee was not as understanding when it came to people who were merely overweight (and not obese).
He fears for people who use the medication irresponsibly
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“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.”
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He explained that he feared for people who use Ozempic to lose between “5lbs to 10lbs” and then ditch the course only to put the weight on again.
“I think it’s irresponsible for people in Hollywood to be doing that,” he told the Daily Mail.
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago (edited)
I really enjoyed the photo of him, a massively ripped epitome of confident masculinity, walking a tiny floofy scrap of a dog XD But he's right - "just" losing weight when you're obese doesn't magically make you happy, the same way that getting clean after drúg add!ction or a!coho!ism doesn't automatically, instantly make you happy and filled with sparkles and rainbows. There's usually a reason that a person struggles with add!ction, whether it's to food, a!cohol, drúgs, or anything else. Getting clean/sober from that add!ction is the goal and absolutely an achievement/victory, but the add!ct is STILL an add!ct inside and absolutely has to work their way through the reasons why they became an add!ct in the first place. I know this intimately - I have been clean for 5 years now (coca!ne and barb!turates), but I am still an add!ct inside, just one in recovery. I know very well that I could slip back into it easily. It's something I work on and struggle with every single day, to stay clean. I am so happy for Ethan, that he found that door that led out of the not-happiness of "just" losing the weight, and that he has found his way to joy and happiness :)
Yora Belle End 1 month ago
Dave, how can you be the "Entertainment News Writer" and say this is Ethan's `new look` ...Ethan Suplee lost his weight and gained his muscle over the last FIFTEEN years!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
But it IS his new look, regardless of how long it took him to achieve it. It's certainly not how he looked when he was 500+ lbs - so I'd say that's a "new" look compared to his "old" look.
Load More Replies... LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago (edited)
I really enjoyed the photo of him, a massively ripped epitome of confident masculinity, walking a tiny floofy scrap of a dog XD But he's right - "just" losing weight when you're obese doesn't magically make you happy, the same way that getting clean after drúg add!ction or a!coho!ism doesn't automatically, instantly make you happy and filled with sparkles and rainbows. There's usually a reason that a person struggles with add!ction, whether it's to food, a!cohol, drúgs, or anything else. Getting clean/sober from that add!ction is the goal and absolutely an achievement/victory, but the add!ct is STILL an add!ct inside and absolutely has to work their way through the reasons why they became an add!ct in the first place. I know this intimately - I have been clean for 5 years now (coca!ne and barb!turates), but I am still an add!ct inside, just one in recovery. I know very well that I could slip back into it easily. It's something I work on and struggle with every single day, to stay clean. I am so happy for Ethan, that he found that door that led out of the not-happiness of "just" losing the weight, and that he has found his way to joy and happiness :)
Yora Belle End 1 month ago
Dave, how can you be the "Entertainment News Writer" and say this is Ethan's `new look` ...Ethan Suplee lost his weight and gained his muscle over the last FIFTEEN years!
LakotaWolf (she/her) 1 month ago
But it IS his new look, regardless of how long it took him to achieve it. It's certainly not how he looked when he was 500+ lbs - so I'd say that's a "new" look compared to his "old" look.
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