As we covered last week, Vin Diesel was seen on a Miami balcony looking a little bit less than fast and furious. He had what appeared to be a significant gut, and he honestly looked like he was coming off a multi-day bender/party. I didn’t think it was some huge deal – he’s a big guy, and I assumed he would be able to get back into shape very quickly. But not in a matter of days! Vin Instagrammed the above photo showing off his surprisingly tight stomach over the weekend. He also wrote:
It is amazing the response from the journalists who I have been talking to for the last two days in New York. Today one wanted to see the dad bod. Haha.
I am wondering if I should show the picture… Body-shaming is always wrong! What do you think?
The pic from yesterday… For those who wanted the show… For all the angels that love dad bod regardless…
Hm… not to body-shame, but how was he able to lose weight so quickly? Or is the header photo just Vin sucking in his gut? I feel like it’s a combination of things. One, the Miami-balcony photos were obviously taken after some hard partying which probably involved lots of booze and carbs. Meaning, he was especially bloated. So once he got hydrated and cleaned out (in a few days), he was less bloated for the Instagram pic. Plus, he’s totally sucking it in.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, Pacific Coast News, Instagram.
or maybe the baby arrived…
(I kid, I kid)
Hahaha!!!!
My 21 month old just pointed to his stomach and said “baby, baby!”
Take that bitches. Well played Vin Diesel, well played…
Or well photoshopped …
A couple of days of dehydrating, working out and not eating much can do a lot (temporarily). That plus sucking it in will do wonders in a photo. Of course you have to have the muscle tone underneath the fat to start with.
Really? Coz I can smell the smoke rising off his over heating photoshop app from here.
Me too!
I was going to say it was his furious body double, but Photoshopping is much more plausible. He even gave himself a tan!
The pic with the abs must be an old photo.
@Kate – Agreed. This quick fix does work upfront but it will have lingering health effects later on. One actress from way-back-when talked about doing body purges/cleanses right before movie shoots because she realised “too late” (in other words, 1 week before shooting began) that she couldn’t fit into her wardrobe. In her later years, she was a large lady and suffered heart problems due to excess dieting.
Vin should just embrace being a little more cuddly rather than always ripped.
I agree with you, Kate. But I also am not convinced he’s not showing us an old selfie here.
That’s exactly what I was thinking. Its not as though he’s holding the days newspaper, right?
Yes, a la Mariah Carey!
I can’t see it happening that fast, no way…..is this photo shopped? It takes time to get rid of a big belly, and then there’s the sag from the skin, so I’d like to know what gives with this?
Yup…someone, somewhere, photoshopped something, or in this case everything!
Reminds me of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=brSqr9XJNQc
Gross.
I know, right? Not something I cared to see or talk about this morning. Can we have a Jason Momoa palette cleanser, or something?
Google image it.
Ditto GNAT
Body shaming is absolutely wrong. I would have been happier if he said so what? Am in the privacy of my hotel room, am in between movies and do not want to spend my days in the gym. So freaking what. I am living my life and don’t have to prove S$$t to anyone.
Yes
I’ll be real for a minute, I have days when im so bloated it looks like im 6 months pregnant. It happens to me on the regular because of intestinal issues. Then it passes and my stomach is flat again. It’s entirely possible he was just having a bad tummy episode and it went away. I’m not terribly invested in his looks because Vin has never been my jam anyways, but we’ve all had bad bloat days.
Me too, completely. Pasta bloat city. But Vin’s upper abs are crazy defined in the “after” and invisible in the bloat pic, it’s pretty dramatic. I’m wondering if there was some tan/makeup defining going on.
First thing I noticed was how much more tanned he is in the Instagram photo!
Me too. Spray on?
Yeah, I think he got the Mariah Carey spray on abs treatment. That with a spray tan, better angle, and lighting, done.
Not to mention sucking it in. He looks like he can’t wait to have the pic taken so he can let out his breath.
So he was body shamed like most women in Hollywood?! Not saying it’s right either way but it’s interesting to see it done to a man for once.
he wasnt. it wasnt even as direct as “The Whale of Wallstreet” with Jonah Hill but its not comparable to women.
Yeah…no it’s never right but excuse me if I don’t cry for this dude.
As usual fat shaming is being called out but thin shaming ignored and never pointed out…
yes, white lives matter, too and men have it the hardest in this world. lets all cry for skinny people.
lol
Thank you for proving my point
I’m sad skinny people never get the privilege of chub rub on a hot summer day.
something is off, even being bloated and all doesnt take you that far in that short time, you cant loose that much even with starving. maybe he had surgery.
its funny when men are getting the same pressure that women have all their lives, why not give them a little taste of “after baby body”?
What is he-48/49? While I can appreciate “what’s good for the goose,etc” as much as the next person, I think that “real” photo is photoshopped too. Face it, living in the gym can’t make 48 yr old skin act like 28 yr old skin. I concur with the poster who said he just should have said “my down time- it is what it is”. Also agree it’s maybe 1/10000th of what a woman goes through.
You can tell in the bloated picture that it’s not all fat b/c his obliques are still somewhat visible (it’s a weird belly he’s got going on b/c it’s taunt). This is not really at all uncommon for big guys who had a lot of muscle and only half-way maintain it now. I’m guessing he drank a lot of water and now he’s just flexing. Most people that have six-packs don’t walk around with a six-pack all the time–they have to flex for it to be visible. He’s always been this type of body though–even when he first hit the scene, he was more meathead fit than sculpted fit.
That happens when you have little body fat. When I was super fitI would get a belly after lunch.
He probably went crazy for a long weekend. It would have cleared quick enough. You see it with wrestlers all the time from week to week they can have very different body shapes.
Also, he probably did a hundred sit ups just before the pic.
I just assumed it was an old photo b/c can you really do that, that quickly w/ab muscles? His skin looks good if its not an old pic for an almost 50 year old.
Meh. He’s definitely got a layer of fat over those abs. So what? I didn’t want to see his gut and I didn’t want to see his ‘flex’ photo either. But here I am commenting. Ah the irony.
Maybe its an old photo.
Could of been his twin brother
They’re not identical twins. It’s Vin Diesel in the photos.
Okie doke
I found that pot belly more interesting. Shame on me.
Eh. I wasn’t shaming it when I called it a ‘Dad Bod’. I run 30k a week, lift weights and hike all the time and I still have what I’ve seen described as ‘granny body’ by writers on this site. I like your dad gut, Vin, ‘cos I’m 35 and you’re a Dad who cares about his kids. HOT.
I suspect the muscles were already down there; he didn’t need to build those from scratch. He just had to get the extra layer off–and at least some of the layer was bloat from partying.
I can’t remember which of his recent films I saw (it was THAT memorable) but he seemed really out of shape in it and he looked like he was struggling. I think the selfie is due to good lighting and sucking it in. He’s got that action-man rep to protect, after all. If I were his nutritionist, I’d put him on a veg-only diet for a few months. I’ll bet he takes dairy-based protein powders and eats a heavy diet. Bad stuff.