I’m thinking he took out second and third mortgages to satisfy the discerning tastes of his cocktail waitress wife. That’s why I go to cocktail lounges for a quick date and IHOP for a wife.
In the first "Bandit" with Sally Fields, Burt's rug was awful and his gut was so fat that he wore a girdle and it was obvious.
He was playing a "young" swashbuckler that was a ladies man, but was a short, fat, bald guy, with a smile made of inserted teeth... true hollywood.