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Thanks to Dlisted and Jezebel, I now know what 50 Cent would look like if he lost 50…pounds. According to Us Weekly, 50 Cent lost 54 pounds to play the part of a football player-turned cancer patient in a film called Things Fall Apart. 50 Cent not only stars – he wrote the damn thing too! Damn, 50. Can you believe this is what he looks like? That is one dramatic change – when Tom Hanks and Matt Damon lost weight for various film roles, they looked different, sure, but you could still tell it was them. 50 Cent doesn’t even look like himself.
Lean times! Inspired by a pal who died of cancer, 50 Cent penned and stars in Things Fall Apart, a flick about a football player stricken with the disease.
“I lost 54 pounds for it,” says the 6-foot rapper, 34, who dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks. “I was starving.”
Now he’s back on tour and says, “I’ve been eating, I’ll be back in shape in no time!”
[From Us Weekly, print edition via Jezebel]
An all liquid diet for nine weeks? My first thought: That can’t be healthy. My second thought: Gwyneth Paltrow is probably going to feature 50 Cent as one of her cut-and-paste special GOOP reports so he can tell everyone how “fabulous” it was doing only liquids. How much do you want to bet? Gwyneth will even refer to him as her “dear friend, Mr. Fifty Cents.”
Photos courtesy of Dlisted.
Written by Kaiser
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wow he looks sick…
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He does look so different… I bet his movie does well.
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Wow, I hope his movie does well, sounds like he was really inspired by his friend. I didn’t even recognize him. I read once that Matt Damon got really sick from that dramatic weight loss for a role-hope 50 doesn’t get sick.
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All of that weight lost just for the movie to go straight to DVD, that’s commitment!
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“my dear friend Mister Fifty Cents” is gold.
And yeah. It makes me sad to look at him. He looks like a cancer patient. Ugh. I just want to hug him.
Which is weird, because 50cent normal I kind of want to smack.
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He looks awful. I couldn’t even tell it was him. And no, definitely not healthy!
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I didn’t recognize him without the bandanna or hat or whatever he wears. He looks like Dave Chappelle.
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wow, i never would have known that was him.
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Wow, he looks terrible!! I’ve always found him attractive….I’m not sure why? Lol. Maybe it’s the bad boy image? Or his seriously hunky body!! Hurry up 50!! Get back to normal!!
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That cannot be good for you…but what commitment! I never thought that “fiddy” had it in him. I really hope that the film does well!
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I hope he will be OK. That not only strips your body, but if f*cks with your head too. In a well known study, healthy weight college males put on a calorie restricted diet who lost weight began to obsess about their weight and have distorted body images. That is one reason anorexics have such a difficult time putting weight on.
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Christ of Nazareth! I hate to look slim!!!
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I like fiddy. I’m impressed with his commitment to his project – seriously! I hope the extreme weight loss doesn’t eff up his organs and he stays healthy.
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I’m very impressed!
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he truly looked the part he was playing then.
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looks more like 5 pesos now…
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like. I really wanted 50 to beat Kanye’s ass in that whole “battle of the CD drop” a year or so ago. Not enough to actually go buy the CD myself, haha, but enough that I wished it in my head.
I bought 50 cent’s first disc though – I was the coolest 9th grader on the block. Love you fiddy!
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@ Peach: Well said!
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I didn’t know anything about this project til I heard about it yesterday. The before and after shots on the HuffPost were amazing.
Perhaps his commitment to this transformation was a drive to honor the memory of his friend, and he used that as his motivation. He DOES look like a cancer patient. My next door neighbor is a nice lady who has been enduring a battle with cancer and chemo for the last couple of years and she has this same kind of withered, haunted look.
Now I’m really interested in seeing his movie, so I guess it was a good idea to release these photos. Hopefully his acting is as authentic and impactful.
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Finish the project and go back to lifting 50, I can’t look at you like this!!!
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haham the goop comment is really funny
I hope after he finishes the film he turns to his old_HOT_himself again!
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Wow. He’s in it to win it. Who would have known he was so committed to the arts. Writing a movie, rapping, acting. I like it. That’s great it’s a story about his friend, too.
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Who wants to see a movie with Fiddy looking like that?! Not me. Gawd, he looks awful. Like a crackhead. I hope he didn’t harm his health too badly doing this. And that he’ll get back to his normal good looking self soon!
@ geez: You are probably right!
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My new idol. I joke, kind of.
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i’m surprised how many people see this as commitment. commitment would be getting some actor training not endangering your health.
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I’m impressed with his commitment to the role. I’m going to keep my eye on him in future productions. It would be great if he turns out to be an up and coming acting powerhouse.
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He looks like that DMX/DMZ (?) dude who’s always getting busted…
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dang
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I hate when people think that weight loss and bald head=cancer patient. Depending on the cancer not everyone has dramatic weight loss if any at all and if they want to shave the head then go for ALL body hair, having eyebrows and stubble defeats the purpose.
Well that’s my rant over.
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Ugh, remember Christian Bale lost 70 lbs. for The Machinist? That was so disgusting.
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Damn, that is some straight-up hardcore method acting right there. He must have really been touched by the death of his friend in a huge way. I’m very surprised at 50…his dedication really makes me interested in his movie.
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Hell……..women are EXPECTED to be this underweight normally.
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Hope he puts the weight back on fast!
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this is not 50cent, tatoo gone? naa this is bulsh*t 50 has tatoo
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SLIM FIDDY!!! hahahahaaha
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OMG! He looks scary. Hope his film does well
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That is pretty intriguing. It presented me some ideas and I’ll be placing them on my web site shortly. I’m bookmarking your website and I’ll be back. Thanks again!
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O wow des messed up who would have ever thought 50 would have lost all that weight just 4 a movie! i hope they hav a part were he looks lik his old self! Now it look lik iz he a crack fen and som worm gt in him! Tell me he ant lookin lik that now im from the ghetto the streetz and i no wat crack fenz look lik!
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omg i cnt blieve dis he dosnt look like himself a big guy now gone to ughhhh!!
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guy pass things are pass things
thank god ur live to day.and not just ur are live but ur ok?G.
keep do,win what u konws best
ur like a brother to me.sorry
to use this word.ilove u?
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