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- Richard Kind Gets Candid About Body Image After Being Teased for Being Overweight as a Kid: 'In My Head, I'm a Fat Person'</p>
<p>Brenton BlanchetJuly 14, 2025 at 4:31 AM</p>
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<p>Richard Kind attends the Clooney Foundation for Justice's The Albies on Sept. 26, 2024</p>
<p>Richard Kind is looking back at his childhood and getting candid about body image</p>
<p>The Curb Your Enthusiasm star, 68, opened up in a new interview with CBS News Sunday Morning about what he used as a coping mechanism while growing up as a "fat" kid</p>
<p>"Still a fat kid even to this day. I'll never be a thin person… In my head, I'm a fat, fat person," Kind said of his mindset all these years later</p>
<p>Richard Kind is getting candid about body image and how he learned to "laugh at myself" after being teased as a child.</p>
<p>The 68-year-old actor, known for his work in Curb Your Enthusiasm and beyond, revealed in a new interview with CBS News Sunday Morning that he was teased growing up as an overweight boy.</p>
<p>"I was a fat kid," Kind said. "I bet I was a loser. I might have made fun of me."</p>
<p>Now years later, Kind shared that it was a friend at summer camp who taught him what he said was "absolutely" a coping mechanism. As he explained, his friend — also overweight — encouraged him to "laugh at myself."</p>
<p>"He was a fat kid, too, who then lost weight. I eventually lost weight," the actor said. "Still a fat kid even to this day. I'll never be a thin person… In my head, I'm a fat, fat person."</p>
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<p>Richard Kind attends the 31st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Feb. 23, 2025</p>
<p>Elsewhere in his conversation with CBS News Sunday Morning's Jon LaPook, Kind opened up about his place in television and film — as the announcer on Everybody's Live with John Mulaney, in Only Murders in the Building and even on the cast of Sharknado 2. As he put it, he's grateful to be in the room with other stars.</p>
<p>"I am parsley on a plate of meat and potatoes," he joked. "Now, I'm good. I look great there. I'm the freshest parsley! But they're meat and potatoes. What do I do? I help make the plate look great."</p>
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<p>"That's fine. That's what I usually do," he added. "But I can be cut out. I'm just not necessary all the time. And I'm fine, fine, fine with that. I've made a career of it, haven't I?"</p>
<p>Along the way, Kind also made friends with George Clooney. He recently discussed their longtime friendship on the June 9 episode of the Still Here Hollywood Podcast with Steve Kmetko, emphasizing Clooney's reputation as a prankster in the movie business.</p>
<p>Asked to share some stories, Kind replied, "But you will not hear them from me. You won't hear them from me for a couple of reasons. No. 1, George gets all the publicity he needs. I need a little more. So that's the first thing. The second thing is nobody tells them funnier than George."</p>
<p>Still, Kind called out his pal — whom he met while working on a failed '80s TV pilot — for a practical joke he'd "forgotten" until recently.</p>
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<p>George Clooney and Richard Kind</p>
<p>"One night, years ago, I have to go to Vegas for some publicity," Kind recalled, noting that he was staying at Clooney's old Los Angeles home at the time. "I have my suitcase downstairs and [I'm] waiting for the car to come."</p>
<p>"George, who had been in the kitchen or something like that, sits down at the foot of the stairs, and we're just chatting. We're gabbing," Kind recalled. "And I say, 'Oh, I forgot something,' and I go upstairs to get something. I come back downstairs, and then the car comes, and the guy who's driving the car takes the bag, and he puts it into the trunk, and I get driven to Burbank Airport, I think."</p>
<p>It wasn't until Kind went through airport security that Clooney's prank came to fruition. "They pull me aside and they go, 'Sir, could you come here, please?' And I go, 'Yeah.' And he opens up the suitcase, and there's an Oscar and a SAG award that George put in my suitcase as we were waiting to go, and I have to schlep."</p>
<p>"It's a good practical joke," Kind added.</p>
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