50 Cent Speaks On Weight Loss

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» by Danielle Canada May 30, 2010, 9:45am

“Yeah, they're absolutely real…”

50 Cent shocked the world last week after pictures of him nearly sixty pounds lighter landed online.

Fif, who lost the weight for a role as a cancer stricken football player, is now defending their authenticity and dishing details on how he made the shocking transformation.

In an interview with Rap-Up, 50 assures the publication that the pictures are not Photoshopped and are the result of hard work in the gym.

“Yeah, they're absolutely real. I shot the first half of the film for eight days and then I left for my international tour, and I spent that time training to lose weight. I had a week and a half after coming back to really intensely train to get down to 160 for the last half of the film project, Things Fall Apart...”


Fif also says he got his inspiration from actor Christian Bale who lost 63 pounds for his role in The Machinist.

“They say it takes 30 days to make a habit, but man… I was on the Internet and I was looking at Christian Bale, while The Machinist was out, he almost killed himself. I was feeling like maybe I'm overdoing it and I'm dropping 54 pounds, but I was in such a good physical state prior to me deciding to go down on the weight…”


Unbeknownst to many, one of 50's close friends died from cancer and he tells Rap-Up, that he used the role as an opportunity to pay homage to his memory.

“It felt like I had a lot of muscle on me still and I was trying to lose as much as possible to be authentic to what I saw in my experience, because my motivation for the project was my best friend, Charles Pringle. He lived across the street from me; he actually died of cancer. It's a serious topic. One out of eight people in the world die of cancer. It tops HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria together…”


Check out the rest of his interview with Rap-Up here.

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  • Mrss.TewHellaSmoove

    OMG !!! • He N33d to qaiin hiis weiiqht back like riiqht now that's not a gudd look for hiim he looks very sick

  • Jabree

    50 Cent you look like dmx but different

    • ivan

      u look like a damn crack head

  • Martha

    The only thing I can say is WOW!

  • http://www.hiphopwired.com Spokenword

    He better get an Oscar for the transformation alone.

  • Tiffany

    OK...GET THAT PAPER!!! SOUTHSIDEALLDAY

  • Special

    5O...imma send CURLY to come and smack the taste out your mouth. Don't you know your getting older not younger and putting your body thru them things can harm you....I GOT CURLY ON SPEED DIAL!

    "HELLO CURLY"........

  • Special

    I know this you better not loose your "MEAT"
    Get it "MEAT"
    LMBAO!

  • REDGIRL30

    WOW FIFTY...I'M GLAD YOUR PAYING HOMAGE TO YOUR FREIND. I KNOW HOW IT IS LOSING SOMEONE TO CANCER I LOST MY MOM TO BREAST CANCER AND I AM THE ONLY CHILD. GOOD LUCK ON YOUR FILM.

  • God

    All of you idiots making wise cracks will never be a professional like 50 is trying to be.

  • Chocolate D

    why is his damn head so long?

  • CriticXtreme

    This is definitely dedication. Others would have refused or faked it out. No matter what haters say, you need to truly know the game. I don't mean that street ish. I'm taking about the "true game" that actually matters. 50 cent has to play both sides of the railroad track and he knows the game.

  • andherichright

    he will let them jews do anything to him

  • LadyNubia8

    Oh Nooooooooooooo!
    He looks like a cross between a *****ed out DMX and Samuel L Jackson (in that Mississippi movie).....but sick!

  • Ocean Don Diva Quentepa

    I hope is ok health wise

  • http://henrineuendorf.wordpress.com Henri

    "Me ain't no *****sta, me ain't no actor" - 50 Cent, quoted in "*****sta". I guess he wasn't telling the truth after all. 50 really sold out.

  • ayo

    damn 50, u are one dedicated individual man. You go hard on your goals man. No joke. Much respect.

  • http://www.swaggtalk100.net webmistress

    Lights, camera, weight loss and oscar!

  • Daniel Cardona

    That's bull... in the other pic 50 has no tattoos and to my understanding he does...

    • jasmin

      daniel cardona is right he has tatoos what happen to them in these pics ....... 50 i still love u

  • http://dbestchika.wordpress.com dbestchika

    He is one in a million. Fill for em cus he reminds me of late nigerian president musa yar adua. Best of luck fifty,

  • http://www.twiter.com/mscreative1 mscreative1

    Damn I workout on my treadmill 3 to 5 days aweek! can't lose jack....Damn he lost lose of pounds!

  • edward dumanon

    we love u..!!dont do that again..!!your face being humpiak!X_X

  • http://www.swaggtalk100.net webmistress

    50cent looks like 100lbs

  • http://myinternetmarketingblog.com Lanre

    Wow! This Guy is strong willed!

  • Tasha

    OMG at all these comments your guys have me n Tears! LMFAO, but he do look like Death 4 Real!

  • yasmin

    OMG 50 you use too be so cute but what happen well im glad ur doin this and hope u do good no matter how bad u look

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