1. Tom Hanks
The Oscar-winning actor announced he has type 2 diabetes when late-night host David Letterman commented on his newly slim figure in October 2013. “I went to the doctor and he said, ‘You know those high blood sugar numbers you’ve been dealing with since you were 36? Well, you’ve graduated. You’ve got type 2 diabetes, young man.'” The actor says yo-yo dieting for film roles could have been a contributing factor. “I’m part of the lazy American generation that has blindly kept dancing through the party and now finds ourselves with a malady … I was a total idiot,” he told E! News.
Back in 2013, Hanks first revealed his ailment, telling then-“Late Show” host David Letterman. It seems the 59-year-old’s previous attempts to bring those elevated blood sugar numbers down by dieting just weren’t working. “I thought I could avoid it by removing the buns from my cheeseburgers,” he told RadioTimes. “Well, it takes a little bit more than that.” But it’s not too late to turn things around. “My doctor says if I can hit a target weight, I will not have type 2 diabetes anymore,” he added.
But in 2013, he explained to Letterman that his teen-like target weight was one he might not be able to hit. “Well, I’m going to have type 2 diabetes then, because there is no way I can weigh [what I weighed] in high school,” he said with a laugh. Hanks added that the condition is controllable, but he joked that he couldn’t get back down to his high-school weight of 96 pounds. “I was a very skinny boy!”