Above is the most recent photo we have of Chris Pratt, 33, out with his wife, Anna Faris, and their month-old baby, Jack, on September 28. I know Chris from the occasional episode of Parks & Recreation (I don’t watch it regularly) where he’s impressed me with how funny and normal he seems. (I didn’t see Moneyball yet, yes I know I should!) He’s like the nice guy you want to sleep with. I get that same impression from this interview, and from another recent interview I found while trying to read up on him. Below is Chris on June 18, around the time he was buffing up for a role in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty, about the capture of Bin Laden by Navy Seals. He looks totally different just a few months ago, right?

Well that film has wrapped and now he’s going in the absolutely opposite direction for a supporting role in a Vince Vaughn comedy called Starbuck. Chris claims in all seriousness that he wants to get up to 300 pounds by November and has 25 more to go. The thing is, I get the impression that he doesn’t even need to put on that much weight and that he’s just doing it to prove his commitment to the role. Maybe he’s just joking around though and is rolling with it. Here’s what he said:

The Parks and Recreation actor, 33, has already gained 40 pounds since June in preparation for his role as a lawyer in the upcoming comedy Starbuck. The film centers around Vince Vaughn, 42, whose character learns he’s fathered 533 children through sperm donations.

“This is what 275 looks like,” Pratt tells Vulture while rubbing his belly. “All man right here.”
Pratt says he hopes to weigh 300 pounds by November. To do so, he’s been drinking “super gross but pretty tasty” weight gain shakes, in addition to eating at fast food restaurants. “I will hit a couple of burgers like it’s laced with crack cocaine,” he jokes. “Oooh, I love it.”

One unfortunate side effect, Pratt admits, is that his energy is lower than ever. “If I just keep eating I can maintain a buzz, like a sugar food buzz. But if I’m in the background of a scene, I’m definitely sitting.”

Pratt is no stranger to modifying his body for a role: He toned up to play a baseball player in 2011′s Moneyball. “I just like to gain weight and lose weight,” he tells Vulture. “It’s a roller coaster. I just want to do this. I want to touch God.”

[From US Weekly]

This reminds me of how Ryan Gosling gained a bunch of weight for Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, but didn’t tell Jackson ahead of time that he was going to do it. He ended up getting replaced by Mark Wahlberg. So it sounds like Chris is just gaining weight because he thinks that his character should be a chub, not because he was necessarily ordered to do so. What’s the big difference between 275 and 300 anyway? He’s already a big guy. I still would hit it, no question, I’m just saying!

Oh and I found a couple of other nice quotes that Chris gave recently. In GQ in May, he admitted his wife Anna Faris was out of his league but said that he gets women because he’s just comfortable in his skin without being a dick, basically. He said “I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened. She’s so goddamn funny and so good. She is a legit comedy powerhouse. But I’m not going to question it too much. I don’t know what it is, man. I guess chicks dig love handles or something.” As for getting women, his advice is “Just be comfortable with who you are. The truth is that any amount of trickery or wearing cool shirts with rad designs or using pick-up lines, or any of this bullshit like trying to neg girls, isn’t going to matter. It won’t pay off when she realizes that you’re full of shit. Girls like that quiet confidence… you want to be with a girl who likes you for you. Just be yourself.” I’m going to pay attention to this guy from now on. I also want to see how long it takes him to lose the weight!

Chris and Anna at the Oscars this year:

And in 2011:

Photo credit: WENN.com and FameFlynet

Some celebrity pregnancies seem to drag on forever, with expectant celebrity moms seeming to gestate for what feels like a year and a half (case in point: doesn’t it feel like Gisele is due any minute now? She’s not.) Anna Faris was not one of those women. Anna and her husband Chris Pratt announced their first pregnancy in May, and Anna just gave birth yesterday. The baby came early – which Chris and Anna say in their statement. The baby was due “in the fall” according to their original pregnancy announcement, which makes me think the baby probably came more than a month early. So, the baby is in the NICU for now, but the fact that they released a statement already makes me think that everything will be fine and everybody is being taken care of. Anna gave birth to a boy – they’ve named him Jack!

It’s official: funny couple Anna Faris and Chris Pratt are parents!

The Dictator star, 35, and the Parks and Recreation actor, 33, welcomed a son, Jack, on Saturday, Faris’ rep tells Us Weekly.

“Anna Faris and Chris Pratt are happy to announce the birth of their beautiful baby boy Jack,” her rep says. “He arrived earlier than expected and will be spending some time in the NICU. The happy parents thank you for your warm wishes and ask that you honor their privacy during this time.”

Earlier this month, a source close to the couple told Us the pair is thrilled to be starting a family together. “They planned for this baby and now seemed as good of a time as ever,” the insider explained. “They really will be the best parents.”

A second source says Faris and Pratt, who wed in 2009, were “so excited” to become first-time parents. “Having a kid is a big deal to both of them — they didn’t take this lightly.”

Pratt, who shows off his musical skills as goofy MouseRat frontman Andy Dwyer on Parks and Rec, is also “excited to have a little guy to teach guitar,” the insider added. After his critically acclaimed performance in 2011′s Moneyball (opposite Brad Pitt), Pratt “has been into baseball again,” the insider revealed. “I’m sure he’s going to sign his son up.”

[From Us Weekly]

Congrats to Anna and Chris! I truly hope everything is fine with Anna and the baby, and that they can bring the little fella home soon. I really enjoyed how low-key her pregnancy was, but maybe I liked it so much because it felt so brief. And while I personally love the name Jack, it really feels like every other celebrity named their son Jack or Jackson. I imagine the kindergartens from here to 2020 will have at least of a third of all the boys being named Jack or Jackson. Or Pilot Inspektor.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.

I just had an epiphany as I was looking through the most recent photos of Anna Faris – with this bob haircut and bangs trauma, she’s a dead ringer for Ellen Barkin. And that’s a bad thing. Anna is 35 years old. Ellen Barkin is 58. It doesn’t help that I also think Anna and Ellen might also be using the same plastic surgeon.

That was a rough way to start a positive post, though. I do like Anna, I just wish she would lose the bangs and stop messing with her face. Anna has been married to actor Chris Pratt since 2009 – Pratt is probably best known for his work on Parks and Recreation, as well as his supporting part in last year’s Moneyball (he was really good in that!). Well, Chris and Anna are now expecting a baby! Huzzah!

In September 2011, Anna Faris told Us Weekly she “would love to have eight kids” with husband Chris Pratt — and now she’s finally on her way!

The What’s Your Number? actress, 35, is pregnant and due this fall, her rep confirms to Us. This will be the first child for both Faris and Pratt, 32, who wed in July 2009.

“I do want a lot of kids,” Faris admitted to Us last year. “We want to populate the world!”

Parks and Recreation star Pratt recently gushed about his wife of nearly three years in the May issue of GQ. “I married way out of my pay grade. I have no idea how that happened. She’s so goddamn funny and so good,” he told the magazine. “She is a legit comedy powerhouse. But I’m not going to question it too much. I don’t know what it is, man. I guess chicks dig love handles or something.”

Faris — who was married to Ben Indra from 2004-2007 — met Pratt on the set of Take Me Home Tonight. She will next appear opposite Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator, in theaters May 16.

[From Us Weekly]

I like the way Chris always talks her up – when they first got together, he was a relatively unknown actor, and Anna’s career was pretty hot. Over the past few years, I think their levels of fame have evened out a bit. Chris still sees himself (and he’s seen by Hollywood) as a solid supporting player, but he’s getting more attention. Meanwhile, Anna’s career is dropping off a bit. I’m happy for them, though – they’ve been talking about having babies for a while, and I’m glad it’s happened for them. They’ll make pretty, funny babies!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I just can’t get over how completely odd and jacked Anna Faris’s face is looking these days. We discussed this last week, but I’m still disturbed. What is going on here? I think it’s a combination of Botox, lip injections, too-blonde hair, some weird eyebrow situation and bangs trauma. It’s terrible.

Anyway, Anna’s new film, What’s Your Number?, comes out this weekend. It doesn’t look very good – and the reviews aren’t great either (22% on Rotten Tomatoes). The movie is basically about a chick who has boned 20 guys and she decides to go back and re-examine all of her old lovers to see if any of them are her “soul mate”. To promote the film, Anna revealed her own “number”: FIVE. Six really, if you include her current husband Chris Pratt.

Anna Faris candidly revealed that she bedded a total of five guys before marrying her husband, “Moneyball” star Chris Pratt, in 2009.

“I’m at five,” the star said at a screening of “What’s Your Number?” “Don’t you think five is kind of low? I’m 34!” During a pre-screening interview Tuesday night with Marie Claire editor Joanna Coles, Faris added, “I’m not a very good lover. I’m so nervous about my sexuality.”

In the film, Faris plays an unlucky-in-love woman who frets she’ll never find Mr. Right after learning the average woman sleeps with 10.5 men before finding “the one,” and she’s bordering on 20.

“I think 20 is kind of low,” she told Coles. “Shouldn’t it be like 70?” Faris — who was recently hailed by Tad Friend in the New Yorker as the future of female comedy — also said that she doesn’t read reviews.

“I try not to read [them],” she said at the Joseph Urban Theatre. “The bad ones really cling. And I’m lucky that I’ve been part of a lot of poorly received movies, so I’m immune. ‘Scary Movie 4’ was a brilliant movie. I’m shocked it didn’t get nominated.”

[From Fox News]

I do think five is pretty low, but I’m not sure if I believe her, especially after her description of her “wild years” - the time right after she divorced her first husband. As for ladies and our “numbers” – I’m not going to reveal mine, but if you’d like to reveal yours, go ahead. I won’t judge or slut-shame. *quietly waiting to judge and slut-shame*

Photos courtesy of WENN.

These are some new photos from last night’s premiere of What’s Your Number?, that romantic-comedy where Anna Faris plays a woman who is going back and finding all of her old boyfriends to see if she’s missed “the one”. CB and I were just examining Anna’s face in these photos from last night‘s premiere, trying to figure out what exactly is going on here. My guess is that Anna just got some premiere Botox, because her face looks oddly frozen, even when she’s trying to be animated. CB thinking Anna might have gotten tweaked beyond that – a nose job, a boob job, and perhaps more. I hope not, because I kind of like Anna. Her career is an anomaly in Hollywood – she’s a talented comedic actress, writer and producer, men and women like her, and she doesn’t put herself out there, famewhore-wise. Anna’s recent interview in Marie Claire (full piece here) was a rare occasion when Anna actually talked about her past, and she comes across as… very interesting. She‘s smart, she‘s ambitious, and she‘s got big plans:

Anna on her first marriage to actor Ben Indra: While her career took off, his stalled. “That kind of destroyed my marriage,” she confesses. “The divide became too great.” She filed for divorce in 2007. (As part of their divorce settlement, she paid $900,000 to Indra.)

Post divorce life: Enjoying her first solo apartment in L.A. and the riches of burgeoning celebrity, she splurged on a boob job and partied hard. “I was like, ‘F–k it, I’ve got nothing to lose, nobody to support.’ I wore the same Garfield shirt and jeans for three weeks. I had a running joke with my friend: ‘I hope somebody roofies me tonight!’ I didn’t care what people thought.”

Meeting and marrying Chris Pratt: But Faris, a self-proclaimed homebody “bordering on agoraphobic,” was ill-suited to the Lindsay Lohan routine and quickly abandoned it. A year later, she got engaged to Parks and Recreation’s Chris Pratt. The pair are tabloid neverminds, rarely photographed at L.A.’s usual paparazzi-flecked hot spots. They prefer, instead, to entertain at their modest three-bedroom home in the Hollywood Hills. There, Faris says, she has a front-row view of the come-one-come-all business model of Hollywood’s young comic guns. “Jonah Hill used to be our neighbor. We’d see him all the time,” she explains. “He’s doing all these projects, and he’d say [to Chris], ‘You gotta do this!’ All the guys are buddies, everyone’s helping each other out and writing roles for each other. But you can’t say to a bunch of girls, ‘Hey, you’re my friend, come join my movie!’”

Hollywood sexism: “Hollywood studio executives don’t recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers,” she adds. But that’s not the only reason it’s so tough to get a group of actress friends to collaborate on a film together. Roles for women are scarce, so actresses rarely get to network on set with each other, an upside to filmmaking that men take for granted. “When we meet each other, it’s always at some fussy event where everyone’s, you know, schmoozy and full of s–t. So it’s difficult,” says Faris. “I would love to have more actress friends, but I just don’t.” To hear Faris describe it, scheduling a casual meet-and-greet coffee date between two actresses in Hollywood is as soul-crushing as having a movie go straight to DVD. “I have to call somebody’s agent and be like, ‘Hey, I know this is crazy — I don’t even have a specific project — but I’d really like to hang out with this girl,’” says Faris, wincing. “It has to be awkwardly coordinated like that.”

Faris’ goal is to become the female Judd Apatow: “I want my group,” Faris says coolly, without a whiff of implausibility. “I want my equivalent of the Judd Apatow crew.”

Longevity: “The hardest thing in my industry is longevity, getting your next job. It’s hard to get the first job, but it’s so much harder to get the sixth or seventh as a woman,” Faris sighs. So having a cadre of loyal actresses with whom she can collaborate is a forward-thinking act of self-preservation. Pretty smart for a woman whose cleavage is an uncredited supporting character in just about every film she’s made. Faris is currently filming The Dictator with Sacha Baron Cohen (she reportedly beat out Kristen Wiig for the lead). She’s also producing her own films, including Gold Diggers, which she describes as the female answer to Wedding Crashers. “You have to create your own stuff,” she says. “It’s really exciting to create something, sell it, and feel like I’m not just a pawn waiting to be cast.”

[From Marie Claire]

I like Anna so much more after reading that. And now I really, really hope she isn’t messing with her face too much. If left untweaked, I suspect she would still look about 20 years old, and the “Real Houswife” look won’t suit her in the long term. Hopefully, whatever’s happening is just a phase.

More photos from the premiere, including some of her boyfriends, Chris Evans, Zachary Quinto and Dave Annable. I’m honestly starting to see the Quinto thing, Quinto-loonies. He’s quite handsome in these photos.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Adam Sandler and Kevin James star in I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, a film about two straight Brooklyn firemen who try to act like they’re a couple in order to get domestic partner benefits. Jessica Biel also stars, and I just bet she’s what blows their cover.

Here’s the trailer:

It looks kind of funny but it could also be dumb and overdone. It’s directed by Dennis Dugan, who also directed Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, and Saving Silverman.

I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is out in theaters on July 20.

Also shown at the premiere are Katherine McPhee, Steve Buscemi, Ian Ziering, and Anna Faris, who looks nothing like she used to. Thanks to WENN.com.