50 Cent Weight GAIN: Not So Skinny Anymore (PHOTOS)

50 Cent is looking like himself again. He shocked fans in May when he tweeted photos of himself looking emaciated, having lost 54 pounds in nine weeks for a role as a cancer patient in 'Things Fall Apart.'

The rapper lost the weight with a liquid diet and daily 3-hour workouts, and his first meal after he finished shooting was a steak.

"I remember specifically what the first thing was, because I was starving," he said on 'The View' Tuesday. "I had a steak. It was 12 ounces, but I got about four ounces in before I started getting sleepy."

Below is a photo of 50 earlier this year, and two photos from Wednesday night at the 'Twelve' screening in New York.

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Comments

[Jes89]

11:08 AM on 09/21/2010

Back to his normal weight. Looking great! I'm impressed with 50 Cent. He was able to transform his music fame into other businesses smoothly. Very few rapper has business-m­inded brain like 50 Cent.

http://www­.dietalt.c­om/weight-­loss-artic­les/50-cen­t-liquid-d­iet-weight­-loss-for-­things-fal­l-apart/

[weight loss success]

11:39 PM on 08/05/2010

He lost weight using treadmill techniques­...

http://www­.myweightl­osssuccess­stories.co­m/2010/05/­50-cent-lo­ss-weight-­using-trea­dmill.html

[DisgruntledYouth]

07:34 PM on 08/02/2010

remember when christian bale lost all that weight for The Machinist, then gained all of it back for Batman Begins? i admire these guys for their dedication to their craft. kudos to Fifty.

[TXDeb]

05:39 PM on 08/02/2010

50 cent should be an inspiratio­n to the young men who feel the weight of the world pressing down on them. He has chosen to better himself (1st thru Rap music) and now in other areas. I really like his style, so more power to him!

[Texan21302]

05:20 PM on 08/02/2010

He's fine! without a doubt.

I saw him on The View the other day. He lifted his sleeves and showed that he is taking the treatments to remove all of his tattoos. He was very polite with a good personalit­y.

I hope that he does get more movie rolls, he's already proven that he can act, and you know he's dedicated with the weight loss.

[slimblu33]

12:31 PM on 08/02/2010

What a hot man! Damn sexy!!!

[MKJeeves]

12:26 PM on 08/02/2010

So he got the 13 cents he lost back then . . .

[ladydragon]

11:42 AM on 08/02/2010

Rappers:
they do grow up and clean up nicely, some of them

[Tingalor]

10:13 AM on 08/02/2010

This has probably been mentioned, but I'm still so confused as to what happened to all those tattoos?!?

[lgcrosscom]

04:06 PM on 08/02/2010

I read somewhere that he was getting rid of tatoos to get more movie roles.

[broken man]

10:10 AM on 08/02/2010

Actually, I once did such a diet, but I lost MORE than 50 and had to be hospitaliz­ed for low blood pressure and anemia. http://bit­.ly/aJocm2 I start at 240 and dropped to 165 in the span of 8 weeks. I didn't exercise, but was only taking in 300 calories a day. It's one of those things you want to see if you have the discipline to accomplish­, but once you do it, you'll never do it again.

[CaroleK1970]

10:28 AM on 08/02/2010

300 calories a day isnt enough for a bird, no wonder you were hospitaliz­ed

[scullens]

02:26 PM on 08/01/2010

I must admit, I do not like the man but I do respect his level of discipline­. That is a remarkable level of commitment­.

[blogisti]

12:27 PM on 08/01/2010

Geez, it looks as if he faded away to about 10cent. That cancer gig ended just in time.

[NonConforming]

04:49 PM on 07/31/2010

"I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him," 50 Cent told GQ

[AngusC]

11:28 PM on 07/31/2010

Did he mean that they are both criminals?

[Razzer]

03:24 PM on 07/31/2010

Looks like he bounced back, and then some....

[AlligatorShuz]

02:47 PM on 07/31/2010

I have respect for Fiddy because he has truly tried to turn his life around and become a respectabl­e man. Plus he has a very nice body and he is sexy...

[NonConforming]

04:49 PM on 07/31/2010

"I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him," 50 told GQ

[CaroleK1970]

10:29 AM on 08/02/2010

agreed - he oozes manliness, so sexy!