Posted by April MacIntyre May 27, 2010, 22:03 GMT
Rapper 50 Cent starved himself for an acting role.
US rapper 50 Cent performs during a concert in Warsaw, Poland, 06 April 2010. The concert is part of 50 Cent's world tour 'Before I Self Destruct'. EPA/JACEK TURCZYK
The rapper was allegedly inspired by a friend who passed from cancer, and in a movie he wrote and starred in titled, "Things Fall Apart," he plays a football player a stricken with the disease.
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“I lost 54 pounds for it,” the 6-foot rapper, 34, who dropped from 214 pounds to 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks. He tells Us Weekly: "I was starving."
Actor Christian Bale also lost a staggering amount of weight for the film, "The Machinist."
Bale is 6' exactly and normally at 185 pounds, but for the film he lost 63 pounds for the role.
According to Us Weekly, 50 Cent now is making up for lost cheeseburgers and fries, "I’ve been eating. I’ll be back in shape in no time!"
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