Rapper 50 Cent talks about his dramatic weight loss and his new film Twelve on The View.

He shocked everyone with his dramatic 60-pound weight loss…Now 50 Cent tells the ladies of The View why he did it.

He’s come a long way from his days as a drug dealer…Curtis Jackson- aka rapper 50 Cent — is now a full-fledged actor, and recently he found out what it’s like to devote his body to his work…
“I was on liquids…started with master cleanse. I read Bale, Tom Hanks”

“The first thing I ate was- I was starving. I had a steak I was 4 ozs in before I started getting sleepy.”

Curtis grew up with a mom who was dealing drugs. DID LIFE IMITATE ART In his new film Twelve?

Twelve “it was totally different for me cause I’ve been away from it. The character is darker.
There’s a scene where he’s excited to deal drugs to trade for her virginity”
50 also says that part of his transformation was removing all the tats from the front of his body.

“I removed all the tattoo…I don’t want to go thru hair and makeup.”
//”You see what they did w Michael- they can do anything.”

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