{"id":579769,"date":"2010-05-26T15:44:43","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T19:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=106132"},"modified":"2010-05-26T15:44:43","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T19:44:43","slug":"50-cent-skinny-rapper%e2%80%99s-shocking-weight-loss-for-dramatic-film-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/579769","title":{"rendered":"50 Cent Skinny! Rapper\u2019s Shocking Weight Loss For Dramatic Film Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/50-Cent-Skinny-Pictures-500x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"50 Cent Skinny Pictures\" width=\"500\" height=\"666\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-106133\" \/><br \/> <em>50 Cent or The Black Powder?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t be alarmed. This isn&#8217;t a photo of my alcoholic Uncle Eddie after knocking back one too many cups of eggnog at the annual family Christmas party. (Although the resemblance is striking&#8230;.) It&#8217;s only 50 Cent, trading his perfectly-chiseled frame in exchange for a bag of bones and a few acting accolades.<\/p>\n<p>The things a guy will do for an Oscar these day! Hey, it worked for DeNiro. The actor gained a record 60 pounds to play the older Jake La Motta for his Oscar-winning role in the 1980 Scorsese classic <em>Raging Bull<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p> <a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/50-cent-skinny-pictures\/50-cent-skinny-pictures\/' title='50 Cent Skinny Pictures'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/50-Cent-Skinny-Pictures-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"50 Cent Skinny Pictures\" \/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/50-cent-skinny-pictures\/50-cent-skinny-pics\/' title='50 Cent Skinny Pics'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/50-Cent-Skinny-Pics-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"50 Cent Skinny Pics\" \/><\/a> <a href='http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/50-cent-skinny-pictures\/50-cent-skinny\/' title='50 Cent Skinny'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/50-Cent-Skinny-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" title=\"50 Cent Skinny\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span id=\"more-106132\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Curtis is taking this thespian thing <em>very seriously<\/em>. 50 lost almost 60 pounds to portray a promising college football player suddenly diagnosed with cancer in the upcoming box office drama <em>Things Fall Apart<\/em>. The &#8220;In Da Club&#8221; star dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill workouts for nine weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jackson, we command you to start downing Big Macs and Coca-Cola. Stat!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisis50.com\/profiles\/blogs\/50-cents-shocking-slimdown\">Spotted@<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bqwKLcfRO6VCcYgYYhHmtvsfDRs\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bqwKLcfRO6VCcYgYYhHmtvsfDRs\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bqwKLcfRO6VCcYgYYhHmtvsfDRs\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/bqwKLcfRO6VCcYgYYhHmtvsfDRs\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>50 Cent or The Black Powder? Don&#8217;t be alarmed. This isn&#8217;t a photo of my alcoholic Uncle Eddie after knocking back one too many cups of eggnog at the annual family Christmas party. (Although the resemblance is striking&#8230;.) It&#8217;s only 50 Cent, trading his perfectly-chiseled frame in exchange for a bag of bones and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-579769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}