Times are hard in the flesh factory of Hollywood. The weight police are stalking well-known celebrities, charging them with crimes against aesthetics if they so much as put on a pound, then attacking the same stars for looking too skinny. It's a constant merry-go-round of column inches.

Whether you think fat is fabulous or fatal, we've put together before and after galleries of celebs that have piled on the pounds over recent times. We reckon some of our featured stars need to add even more padding to their bony bits - others could probably do with renewing their gym membership sharpish.

- Celebrities gaining weight, 1-5

- Celebrities gaining weight, 6-10