TOBEY MAGUIRE - MAGUIRE SHAPES UP FOR SPIDERMAN ROLE

Hollywood heart-throb TOBEY MAGUIRE followed a strict diet in preparation for his role in box office hit SPIDER-MAN 2.

Maguire, 29, had to pile several pounds onto his five foot eight inches (1.72 metres) frame to fit the role of MARVEL comic book hero PETER PARKER.

Vegetarian Maguire says, "I was actually on a six-day-a-week diet where I ate perfectly for all but one day. On that seventh day, I would eat whatever I wanted. And I would overdo it, really, because it helps you get through the rest of the week."

On the seventh day of his diet, Tobey confessed to eating a variety of junk food such as macaroni and cheese, popcorn, M+M's, cookies and brownies just to name a few.

Maguire adds, "The seventh day was usually a Sunday and I would eat like that and then be disgusted. That would carry me through most of the week, and then come Thursday, I started to want all that stuff again."