Rapper 50 Cent has tried to reassure fans that he is OK after he posted pictures of himself on his website looking shockingly thin.
The usually muscle-bound star lost almost four stone in just nine weeks to play an American football player suffering from cancer in his new movie.

50 Cent went from 214lbs to 160lbs after spending three hours a day on a treadmill and surviving only on a liquid diet.

The US rapper/actor - real name Curtis Jackson - wrote: "I lost 54lbs for it. I was starving."

Some people expressed shock at the pictures.

Others refused to believe that the pictures were actually of him.

Medina said: "This aint no damn 50 cent, this is bull crap!", while fleXeR said: "Fake! look at his ears son."

50 Cent's method acting echoes that of British star Christian Bale who lost 63lbs for his role in the dark mystery film The Machinist.

Bale went from 185lbs to 122lbs to look like he 'had not slept for a year' and did it by cutting out most foods and lots of exercising.

50 Cent is currently on tour and is now putting the weight back on. In recent weeks, he has been pictured in concert looking healthier.

He reassured fans: "I've been eating. I'll be back in shape in no time."

He also had his tattoos removed for the movie Things Fall Apart, which he wrote himself.

The film is due out next year.

nna wah oo. see as the guy transform to an ugly old man. it means a lot of hungry africans will look wonderfull when the land becomes green. food good ooo.

Brownteeth:

nna wah oo. see as the guy transform to an ugly old man. it means a lot of hungry africans will look wonderfull when the land becomes green. food good ooo.

Exactly! which means we are all handsome/beautiful.

truth, africans are more beautiful if there is no hunger in the land.

o boy! so these men that usually look like that on our streets would have been handsome lord have mercy

Bestglo:


o boy! so these men that usually look like that on our streets would have been handsome lord have mercy

Yep!

It is really good thing when we share the picture with each other in this way. The reason behind it is that it really helpful to motivate the other new comers who are really willing to loss the weight.

Bestglow:

Shocked Shocked Shocked
o boy! so these men that usually look like that on our streets would have been handsome Huh lord have mercy

Amen.

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