Chris Pratt: I Was ‘Impotent, Depressed’ At 300 Pounds

Chris Pratt says he will never be overweight again.

The “Jurassic World” star, whose weight has yoyo-d over the years for various roles, opened up about his bigger days to Men’s Health UK magazine, and revealed it all started when he played Andy Dwyer on “Parks and Recreation.”

“I said to the creators that I wanted to get fatter for the role. They loved it,” Chris, 35, told the mag. “I announced it to the whole cast, and then it became a bit of a game: how fat can I get and how fast can I get that fat.”

The actor would eat four cheeseburgers during table reads for the NBC comedy, and came to associate his heaviness with his funny factor.

“I thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m getting fat,'” he said, recalling his thoughts as he watched himself on an episode. “And then almost immediately I did something else and I thought, ‘Holy crap, I’ve never seen myself funnier.’ And I put the two together.”

Weighing in at 300 pounds at his heaviest, Chris said he was plagued by severe health problems.

“I was impotent, fatigued, emotionally depressed. I had real health issues that were affecting me in a major way,” he told the mag. “It’s bad for your heart, your skin, your system, your spirit.”

After seeing himself as a lean and cut Navy SEAL in 2012’s “Zero Dark Thirty,” Chris declared his days of extra weight officially over.

“Right after walking out I was like: ‘I’m going to get in shape and I’m never going to be fat again,'” he said.

Catch Chris in “Jurassic World” – in theaters on June 12.

— Erin O’Sullivan