many pounds heavier

many pounds heavier
   much fatter
   Perhaps written more of women, who can be more sensitive on the subject of weight than men:
    From time to time, she returned to the screen many pounds heavier. (Daily Telegraph, 19 March 2001, in an obituary of the actress Ann Sothern)

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