Connelly hates it when husband beefs up!

Jennifer Connelly doesn`t like her husband bulking up for movie roles.

London: Actor Paul Bettany, who featured in `The Da Vinci Code`, says his wife Jennifer Connelly doesn`t like him bulking up for movie roles. The 38-year-old actress, who raises two children with Bettany, can`t stand it when he sports large muscles as he reminds her of the guys she avoided when she was a student.

"She hates it when I get fit. It`s because she says, `You look like everybody I refused to go out with in college.` So she`s never impressed by that sort of thing," contactmusic.com quoted him as saying. Paul, 38, has previously admitted he doesn`t enjoy working out because it stops him from thinking about anything interesting. "It`s impossible to have a creative thought when you`ve got something really heavy about to fall on your head. I can stand and wash up and an interesting thought can occur to me. Not once have I had an interesting thought while working out. "And people lie. They say, `Oh, you get this sort of endorphin high.` Or, `When I`m running, I get into this sort of trance-like state.` It`s nonsense. It`s just painful," he had said. IANS