FEARS FOR HEFTY HERMIT NICHOLSON!
Ballooning star gone from view
HOLLYWOOD bad boy Jack Nicholson has transformed from party animal to beached whale, insiders said!
The chubby “Chinatown” star has packed on so much weight in recent years that he can barely move — let alone hit the town anymore, a source spilled!
“He’s clocking in at around 350 pounds and knows he’s a sorry sight,” the source said. “He doesn’t want people to see him looking like this and has become a virtual recluse!”
Sources snitched to The National ENQUIRER that the one-time Hollywood horndog — who turns 84 on April 22 — has shut himself away at his sky-high home in the Hollywood Hills doing little more than stuffing his face and lamenting his lost ladies’ man profile.
The three-time Oscar winner with the devilish grin hasn’t made a movie since the 2010 box-office flop “How Do You Know” with Reese Witherspoon — and one source said the morose outmoded megastar feels like Hollywood has passed him by.
Weight woes are nothing new for the Hollywood playboy, whose appetite for women was satisfied by liaisons with actresses Anjelica Huston, Rebecca Broussard, Lara Flynn Boyle — and a laundry list of others. The ENQUIRER reported in 2017 the “As Good as It Gets” actor had ballooned to 360 pounds — and photos examined by doctors revealed a telltale scar indicating he had likely undergone hushhush bypass surgery. While insiders said he later lost some weight, they add he has gained nearly all of it back. “There was a lot of buzz he had the surgery, but it hasn’t helped him keep the weight off,” an insider said. “It hasn’t killed his ferocious appetite — which is his worst enemy. “Everyone’s afraid he’s going to eat himself to death!” Longevity expert Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who has not treated Nicholson, believes “The Shining” star’s only hope at this point is to slim down to a healthy weight and save his own life.
“You can’t beat obesity with just bypass surgery,” he said. “He needs psychological counseling. He has to get stimulated to follow the rules of a proper diet.
“If he keeps up like this, he’s on a life-threatening path!” Jack did not respond to our request for comment.