50 Cent’s Weight Loss: This Time It was Tougher

Grammy-award winning rapper 50 Cent, also known as Curtis Jackson, has got the whole web community talking about his recent weight loss.

In his new movie named “Things Fall Apart,” Curtis plays a football player diagnosed with cancer. Due to demands of the role, the rapper had to shed off more than 50 pounds off of his total body weight (from 214 to 160 pounds). That said, he went on a nine-week program where he ran on a treadmill for three hours a day. On top of that, he was also limited to a liquid diet.

However, weight loss wasn’t a new thing for the rapper. After being shot in the jaw back in 2000, Jackson also took a liquid diet.

“This time it was a lot tougher for me,” Jackson said in an interview with Associated Press. “I had to discipline myself not … to actually have myself be in the physical state to convey the energy I felt. It’s a passion project for me,” the rapper added.

Still, Jackson also took all the necessary precautions before undertaking such a quick weight loss program.

“I actually got on the computer,” he said. “When it started getting difficult, I was looking to see what their experience was like and I got a chance to see all of the interviews they [other actors] had at different time periods when they were doing promotion for the projects.”

Since the film is already in post-production, the rapper is slowly gaining his weight back. 50 Cent now weighs 198 pounds.

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