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Ashton Kutcher was set to walk the runway for Gucci in the 1990s. Now the actor told why his career ended abruptly.
01/18/2026, 08:3601/18/2026, 08:36
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The American actor Ashto«n Kutcher has explained for the first time why he didn’t have a career as a model for the luxury fashion group Gucci. In an interview for “Entertainment Tonight,” the 47-year-old said that his weight was the deciding factor.
At Gucci it wasn’t enough to have one model: Ashton Kutcher.Image: keystone
He remembered a photo shoot for a Gucci campaign for which he flew to Italy. At that time, designer Tom Ford was responsible for the Italian manufacturer’s fashion line. “I went there, flew to Italy especially for the fashion show, and he put a pink Speedo on me,” said the former actor from the series “That ’70s Show.” He would still know that he weighed “exactly” 81 kilograms at the time. But Ford, Kutcher recalled, “said something like, ‘He’s too fat.’ And then I was fired.”
“You’re too fat now”
But he wasn’t upset. He later talked to Ford about it later and laughed. “I told him: You’re too fat now,” Demi Moore’s ex reported of a meeting with the designer years later. He even defended Ford: “He had a certain idea of what he wanted, what he wanted to see, and in his eyes it was exactly the right thing,” the actor explained.
Kutcher is currently promoting his new film “Beauty,” which is about beauty ideals. He started as a model at the age of 19 and quickly noticed how even exceptionally beautiful people have weaknesses. “I realized very quickly that everyone has insecurities,” he said of his work as a professional model.
Sometimes his looks even got in the way of his acting career. “There are roles that I got because of my looks and there are roles that I didn’t get because of my looks,” he said during a panel discussion at New York Comic Con in October.
“Sometimes it’s frustrating.”
The film “The Beauty” – which will air on US television network FX on January 21st – revolves around a sexually transmitted disease that leads to aesthetic improvements but ultimately proves fatal. He raises the question of what one would do to achieve physical perfection.
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