Ryan Gosling was suppose to play Soarise Ronan’s father in The Lovely Bones, even though he’s a little young, but instead, Mark Wahlberg got the job. So, what happened? Ryan said he was too fat for the part.

During an actor’s round table, Ryan explained to The Hollywood Reporter why he didn’t end up starring in Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones.

“We had a different idea of how the character should look. I really believed [he should be 210 pounds],” Ryan said of how he showed up to set weighing 60 pounds heavier than when he was hired. “I’d gotten it wrong. Clearly. And then I was fat and unemployed.”

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A federal advisory panel panel Friday endorsed a company’s request that a device used for weight-loss surgery be approved for people who are slightly less obese, a crucial step towards making the already increasingly popular procedures available to many more patients.

The 10-member Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted overwhelmingly to recommend the agency grant the request from Allergan Inc. of Irvine, Calif., to market its Lap-Band device to people with a body mass index BMI of between 30 and 35.

Currently, the device, which is implanted around the stomach to restrict how much food a person consumes, is only approved for people who have not been able to lose weight through diet and exercise and have either a BMI of 40 or above or a combination of BMI of 35 or above and at least one serious weight-related health problem. Allergan’s request was to change that to a BMI of 35 with no health problems or 30 with health problems.

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