10 Amazing Bodies of Two and a Half Men Stars 

The cast of "Two and a Half Men" brought laughter and (sometimes behind the scenes) drama to millions of viewers. Beyond their on-screen talent, these stars have showcased their own amazing bodies and diverse life experiences. From Jon Cryer's dedication to maintaining a steady pace in his running routine to Angus T. Jones' journey of self-discovery, each cast member has a unique story to tell. Melanie Lynskey's battle with body image, Merin Hinkle's resilience in the face of health challenges, and Jennifer Bini Taylor's commitment to roles with meaning are just a few of the intriguing narratives. Join us as we delve into the lives of these ten remarkable individuals who charmed us on the small screen and continue to inspire in their own ways.

1. Jon Cryer

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Jon Cryer played Alan Harper for the entirety of Two & A Half Men. He told Runner’s World in 2009 that he likes to run. “I run twice a week and I work out with weights twice a week. Normally I go between four and a half to five miles at an eight-minute pace. Not super intense. It's more about maintaining a steady speed than sprinting.”

2. Angus T. Jones

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Angus T. Jones played the role of Jake Harper. In an interview with People, he talked about his decision to leave acting. "If you’d asked me a few years ago if I wanted to get back involved in the industry, I would have said, ‘No. Not at all.’ I got pretty doomsday with my thinking for a long time, but now I’m having fun and enjoying where I’m at. I no longer feel like every step I take is on a land mine."

3. Melanie Lynskey

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Melanie Lynskey played the role of Rose on the show. She talked about struggling with her body image and how she overcame it to People. “I was like, ‘I just need to look the way I’m supposed to look’ and have faith that people are going to want to put someone in a film or on a show who looks like this,” she says. “I did have to truly become comfortable with myself, because you can’t fake it.”

4. Merin Hinkle

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Merin Hinkle played Judith Harper on the show. In an essay for Healthy Women, she talked about dealing with pain and health issues. "I was my own advocate," Hinkle says. "I basically had to crusade to figure out what was wrong. I would often meet with doctors who weren't sensitive, and some thought I was being overly emotional because I'm an actor. One neurologist actually said to me, 'You're too smart for all this.' I started to think I had become crazy. I remember weeping in doctors' offices."

5. Jennifer Bini Taylor

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Jennifer Bini Taylor played the role of Chelsea Melini. She tells FOX News about what roles she is drawn to. "As I have gotten older and have kids and think about the mark that I'm leaving now, I want some of the things that I do to mean something," she said. "Any acting job is a miracle and a blessing in itself, and I'm thrilled for that. But if it's something where I get to share my faith, that might help somebody down the road. There's just so much dark stuff on, and I think people are craving things that offer them something more."

6. April Bowlby

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April Bowlby played Kandi Harper on the series. She shared some of her favorite foods in a 2011 interview with SELF. "This is my breakfast: Two poached eggs, turkey bacon, and a half avocado. The yolks in a poached egg are alkalizing. Avocados are a great source of fat and vitamin E; great for your skin. It's super light and not too heavy. Sometimes I like a little sweet as well, so I have a cup of plain yogurt with blueberries. Aaaand the best part is you can make it into a clever little face to represent your morning mood."

7. Ashton Kutcher

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Ashton Kutcher played Walden Schmidt from the ninth season onward. He told GQ last year that he is training to run a marathon. “I've always liked running—running is my preferred method of cardio. But I'd never run more than probably four or five miles before, ever. So I started inching up to that six-mile threshold. It seemed like there was a plateau with six miles, and there was another plateau at that nine-mile mark, and then there was another plateau at the 13-mile mark, and all along the way, I just kept hitting these false ceilings, and then working with some folks to engineer my way through it, and now I have a week to go. And if I said I wasn't a little bit stressed, I’d be lying. I'm a little bit stressed.”

8. Amber Tamblyn

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Amber Tamblyn played Jenny Harper on the last two seasons. She shared some of her self-care secrets with Us Weekly. “I practice self-care by resting as much as I can, when I can. By not comparing my successes to the successes of others. By reading, by working out, by eating healthy but also by enjoying damn good food,” she says. “By meditating and engaging in deep conversations bound by strong friendships. Self-care, to me, is also fighting for the right of others to be afforded these same privileges.”

9. Judy Greer

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Judy Greer played Bridget Schmidt. She told New York Magazine that she loves using olive oil. “I work with the health coach Daphne Javitch, and she’s a big fan of just using olive oil and lime on salads. So now I have two olive oils on our counter: one for cooking and one for flavor. A lot of people have been doing this for a while, but I just started cooking and learned the art of olive oil.”

10. Ming Na-Wen

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Ming Na-Wen played Judge Linda Harris. She has her own wellness Instagram, where she shares some of her favorite recipes. She shared this post, captioning it, “Lunchtime! Flounder fillet topped with panko crumbs, cilantro & pomegranate. Cooked in a little butter & olive. Only took 5 mins to make. Fast food never tasted so good! I added a side of beets with buffalo mozzarella, basil & tomato drizzled in my own mustard balsamic vinaigrette.”

The It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia stars aren't just funny; they're grounded. From Charlie Day's newfound confidence to Rob McElhenney's transformational weight loss journey, each blurb here delves into the unique approaches these beloved actors take towards their health and fitness. Learn about Glenn Howerton's intermittent fasting, Danny DeVito's unconventional pre-show routine, and Kaitlin Olson's perspective on playing multifaceted characters. Josh Groban, too!

1. Charlie Day

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Charlie Day plays the lead role of Charlie Kelly. He says to Backstage.com that creating the show has given him more confidence in his acting career. “It was ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ that gave me the confidence to say, OK, well, I don’t always have to be making something just [to have a project] to act in. I can make something for the thing itself to be unique and worthy of people’s time.”

2. Rob McElhenney

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Rob McElhenney plays Mac on the show. He notably lost a lot of weight, and shared his secrets with The Wrap. “As I started off I was doing it with chicken breast and rice and vegetables,” McElhenney said. “But when you’re four months in it and you have to muscle down 1,000 calories for the third time or fourth time in a day and you have to either eat three chicken breasts, two cups of rice and two cups of vegetables — or one Big Mac — you start to see the Big Mac and realize it’s a lot easier to get down … And then every once in a while I would eat three donuts. And every day one of my meals was a high-calorie protein shake.”

3. Glenn Howerton

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Glenn Howerton, who plays Dennis Reynolds, tells Men’s Health that he intermittent fasts. "That's the main staple of my diet," he says. "I read somewhere that you're not supposed to drink coffee first thing, which was torture for me, so now what I do is I start with a big glass of water, maybe some supplements, and then after I've been awake for about an hour and half, two hours, then I get my coffee."

4. Danny DeVito

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Danny DeVito plays Frank Reynolds on the show. He revealed his unique pre-show exercise to GQ. “I have a trampoline. I don't know if you can see it, over there. I start every night with it to get myself going. I guess you would call it exercise, but it's like getting ready to go out.”

5. Kaitlin Olson

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Kaitlin Olson plays Dee Reynolds on the show. She talked about what she enjoys about the role, and her other roles, to The Hollywood Reporter. “I’m really attracted to playing broken people. Mickey was very scrappy and self-sufficient; for Dee, [life is] just a giant competition. Neither of them had the little-girl quality D.J. has. I thought it was a nice opportunity to play something different and to have actual emotion. There’s a relationship there, and it’s one of the driving forces behind the whole season, because D.J. is a bit in the [comedy special] that Deborah’s doing. It’s nice to play a comedic character that also has some broken, raw emotion.”

6. Mary Elizabeth Ellis

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Mary Elizabeth Ellis plays The Waitress on the show. She tells Marie Claire that she wants to have more women involved in the television creating process. “I think having women behind the cameras is exciting—whether it's as a director or a writer or a producer—because it does feel like we're in the middle of this awakening of realizing that it's important for women to have a voice. But I also think it's still easy for us—as women, as writers and as directors and producers—to let it fall into the same patterns. Like, ‘and then the woman brings in the food, because the woman's the one who makes food.’ It's easy for that to happen, because that's what we've always known. We all have to hold each other accountable and point that behavior out to each other in a kind way. I guess what I'm saying is just having women behind the scenes isn't enough, we also have to be aware of what we're saying about ourselves.”

7. Artemis Pebdani

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Artemis Pebdani plays Artemis on the show. She talked about dealing with racism and cutting people out to The Daily Beast. “Being an Iranian kid in the 1980s, well, that wasn’t the easiest. I’m fair complexioned, so it would have been easier if I had just kept my mouth shut about being Iranian, but I didn’t, so I received my share of ‘antagonism’ at an early age. Now I am older, and I mostly get to choose who I am surrounded by, and I choose not-bigots.”

8. Travis Schuldt

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Travis Schuldt plays Ben Smith on the show. He tells Digital Journal that he took on a new hobby during the pandemic. “I started up a garden, which is very fun. We grow cucumbers, cantaloupes, and tomatoes. I joke with a friend of mine and I tell him that ‘I grew up in Kansas and I left Kansas to go to California and I ended up becoming a farmer in California.”

9. Brittany Daniel

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Brittany Daniel plays Carmen on the show. She talked about the process of getting in shape for her wedding in this blog post. “To commit myself to getting stronger, I wanted to create a workout program for myself that was succinct and efficient, so I enlisted my friend and Hollywood trainer extraordinaire, Jeanette Jenkins to help me out. My faithful workout partner Cyn came along for the training sessions, and we made sure they were all only 30 minutes so that she and I would have no excuses to ditch our workouts for lack of time. Jeanette designed each workout with high interval training and super sets. That way, we were able to keep our heart rate up, and burn the most calories in a short time span. The results were amazing!”

10. Jimmi Simpson

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Jimmi Simpson plays Liam McPoyle on the show. He revealed in an interview with The Imagista that he wants to learn from other actors. “The way I run my life, I enjoy surrounding myself with people who know more than me. I have been blessed to be surrounded by a lot of those people, I just love to absorb that. As far as artistic idols, when I was in college considering going after this as a career, there really were not dudes like me doing something that was interesting to me. However, when I saw Richard Burton’s work that was pretty profound for me because he was speaking to me in his performance in ways that no actor ever had with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolfe, with footage of his contemporary Hamlet and the movie Becket. I had never seen an everyman just knock my dick in the dirt with their performance. He kind of reinvented what it was like to be a man and I bought what he was selling. Watching him made me realize that maybe I had something to say because I identified with what he was saying.”

11. Josh Groban

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Josh Groban has made cameos as himself on the show. He talked about his wellness secrets with GQ. “Now that it's getting warmer, what I'm trying to do is be good to my body in ways that aren't necessarily, like, lifting or going to the gym. I'm trying to be good to myself and good to my body right now outside of the theater with things like, biking a lot, or taking long walks, or, playing and doing stuff in the park. Getting exercise in ways that allow me to get a little bit of vitamin D and, and let me see the world outside the stage door. At some point, I’ll get back into the gym.”

Get ready to hit the Malibu Sands Beach Resort in your best swimwear: It's time for a look at the amazing bodies from Saved By The Bell. True fans know the characters started on a series called Good Morning, Miss Bliss, which lasted for one season. It was then retooled, more characters were added, and it was renamed. That show aired on NBC for four seasons. A spinoff, The College Years, aired for one season, and followed some of the main characters at college. Two TV movies were also made—Hawaiian Style and Wedding In Vegas—which served as the show’s finale. Another spinoff, The New Class, followed a new set of characters. In 2020, the show was revived, with most of the main cast returning. Why does this show endure, and how do the stars look so good? Read on.

1. Tiffani Amber-Thiessen

Tiffani-Amber Thiessen played Kelly Kapowski on the original series, The College Years, and the 2020 revival. In addition to acting, she’s an avid chef. Thiessen even had her own show on the Cooking Channel, Dinner At Tiffani’s. “I grew up in a long line of women who love to cook,” Thiessen tells People. “I just kind of went right into it with them. As I’ve gotten older and I started traveling to other countries, my love of cooking just expanded.”

2. Ariela Barer

Ariela Barer played Chloe on season two of the revival show. She talked about having to deal with beauty standards with The Mary Sue. “We all have a very specific relationship to our appearances. I think as women, that’s definitely a thing, and men too. There’s a level of presentation to gender. There’s a performance of all of it and that’s something that’s shown in little details. We talk a lot about how Nico has time to put on all this make-up every day but that’s not unrealistic. She is someone who deals with having a mask and it’s kind of like war paint at a certain level. These looks get so intricate as stakes get so high because it is her warrior look and I think all of us have different relationships to make-up.”

3. Elizabeth Berkley

Elizabeth Berkley played Jessie Spano on the original series and its revival. She shared her favorite beauty product in an interview with Refinery29. “I am absolutely obsessed with a Senna Cosmetics tinted moisturizer called Barely Base — it gives the perfect coverage but allows your skin to breathe and reflect light. I use their cream blush called Coy every day and for special events; it creates a fresh, dewy glow.”

4. Mark-Paul Gosselaar

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Mark-Paul Gosselaar played Zack Morris in the original show, The College Years, and in the 2020 revival. He talked about preparing for his role in the show Pitch to Vulture. “I went on a ketogenic diet. But a ketogenic diet, usually people use that to maintain or lose weight. For me to gain it, I had to eat more than normal, which consisted of eating a lot of meats and fats. Mo and I are kind of on the same diet and that’s probably, along with the training, one of the hardest things we have to do. Because it’s a constant effort.”

5. Mario Lopez

Mario Lopez played AC Slater on the original series, The College Years, and the 2020 revival. He has maintained his impressive physique since the show, and shared his secrets with Men’s Health. "I think your health should be a top priority, because if you don't have that, what does anything else matter,” he said. “I want to just be healthy and be around as long as I can, to be able to be there for my family. It's a lifestyle, really: it's allowed me to handle this insane schedule at my age, and to have a lot of energy, like right now I'm going from the gym to Access Daily. And that's a talk show, viewers want to see people who are happy and excited, and at the moment we have a lot of guests, so I can't be low energy."

6. Cheyenne Jackson

Cheyenne Jackson played the recurring role of Rene on the revival series. In an interview with GQ, Jackson revealed that he is working on his sleeping habits. “I have to be as disciplined with my sleep hygiene as I am with food and exercise,” he says. “I like it to be cool in the room and definitely like downtime before. I go to bed by ten, because I get up about 5.45am. The kids are in this new phase where they want to get up and watch the sunrise and it’s so cute and so sweet. And of course it’s always worth it, but they’re going to get up whether I’m asleep or not. So I have to get my ass to sleep.”

7. Bianca Lawson

Bianca Lawson played Megan Jones on the first two seasons of The New Class. She shared some of her favorite workouts in an interview with Reflect Beauty. “I’m someone that needs to move my body for mental health. I’ve done some dance video workouts and I also have ‘The Mirror’, but I’ve been dying to get out of the house to exercise. I went for a hike yesterday and it was heaven to workout in nature!”

8. Alycia Pascual-Pena

Alycia Pascual-Pena played Aisha Garcia on the revival series. She talked about wanting to be a role model for other Latin girls to HOLA! “I just hope that when people watch our show-but especially Latinas and young Latinx girls- [they feel] empowered. I hope that people feel empowered and feel motivated to persevere amidst adversity. I think a common thread between both our characters is resilience through it all, we both are met with a different monsoon of obstacles at Bayside but really go after what we want even though that were met with discontent. And I think it‘s really beautiful to see this narrative centered around two powerful Latinas who are very distinctly different. You’ll learn through the friendship that Aisha and Daisy are these very different women but both always come home to each other and take so much pride in their culture and heritage. So I pray that people back home feel empowered and feel as if they have a voice and feel motivated to go after whatever it may be, even if they’re told that they’re not capable of it.”