“The weight started coming off and my manager told me, ‘You better get yourself to a doctor!’ I just didn’t want to go because I had to match the look in my mind.

“I was so into what I was doing that I wasn’t really concerned with that. I just kept looking at myself in the mirror feeling like I have to be smaller. I had to match.

“I had so much muscle on me that it was hard for me to lose definition even as I got lighter and slimmer. I started running to suppress my appetite. Towards the end it was really difficult. It was like, if I don’t get close enough to what my best friend looked like to me at that point before he passed, then I’m not doing the story any justice.”

Fifty Cent has been making world wide news since he posted startling pictures of his radically thinner self on his website. Parade Magazine’s West Coast Editor Jeanne Wolf spoke to him and he told her he wanted to lose over fifty pounds for his role in the upcoming movie “Things Fall Apart” to pay tribute to a friend who died of cancer and to show that he was ready to go as far as he had to. He wants the industry to know how seriously he takes his acting.

“I think the world took note because people kept making comparisons with great actors like Tom Hanks in “Philadelphia” and Christian Bale in “The Machinist”. There is no way to play a role like this without really committing to it.”

You can see Fifty’s toned bod when he takes it all off in the Joel Schumacher film “Twelve” which comes out July 2. The flood of publicity caused by his skinny photos should up the awareness that he is about to start his American Tour and promote his new studio album.

Filed under: Feature by admin | 06.01.2010
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