Shep Smith: 'I've Lost Too Much' Weight

Fear not, worried fans: Shep Smith has admitted he's too skinny.

The Fox News star's appearance has suddenly become a hot topic. After HuffPost wrote about Smith's rapturous recap of a lunch he'd had at the White House, many commenters on the site and elsewhere pointed out his rather gaunt appearance in distressed tones. Some worried whether he was going through a bout with illness.

Luckily, Smith took to the New York Daily News to clear things up.

“I’ve lost too much,” he told the paper. He said that a health scare (he was told he had out-of-control cholesterol and high blood pressure) forced him to cut down on his junk food intake and exercise.

Smith didn't say what he was planning to do to pack on a few extra pounds.

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Comments

[brandotimestwo]

12:19 PM on 02/14/2012

People, people. What's with all the veiled, cliched and really ignorant comments about HIV? Come on, climb out of 1985. HIV is a virus. And yes, some people, (straight and gay), get it through irresponsible behavior, but so do people who get lung cancer from smoking and diabetes from eating too much. Do you whisper in the hallways about those people as well?

Try saying to yourself, "Even if Shep Smith has HIV/AIDS, so what?" Does that make him less of a person? Does that make him someone who deserves your self-righteous sneering? HIV is a virus, not a moral judgment. Especially not from people, whom I'm guessing that if we pried into their private lives, would probably have no business throwing stones at others.

Your reaction to something that makes you uncomfortable says way worse things about you than anything Shep Smith might have done.

Grow up.

[charleslennon]

10:26 PM on 02/04/2012

Deep fried Oreos!

[Kreskytim]

09:54 AM on 02/02/2012

As they say...your fanny or your face. When you get older staying lean doesn't always make you look better.

[Kreskytim]

09:51 AM on 02/02/2012

I'm really shocked at all the "he has AIDS" comments. It's pretty despicable rumor to spread around.

[Kreskytim]

09:48 AM on 02/02/2012

Didn't Shep use to have blue eyes?

[demisfine]

09:57 PM on 02/01/2012

Philadelphia?
I keep thinking of the Tom Hanks character and his struggles.

[Flight]

09:36 PM on 02/01/2012

Forget the skinny face -- what about the bad hair color and do? It makes him look like a cartoon character.

[jerryatthebeach]

09:16 PM on 02/01/2012

I'm glad he wasn't whoring around at the baths....

[WiltonDiary]

03:37 AM on 02/02/2012

HE must have laid with a stranger then in an alley.

[jerryatthebeach]

01:25 PM on 02/02/2012

I hope he's o.k., he's very charming...

[brandotimestwo]

12:05 PM on 02/14/2012

You are disgusting. The negative reaction of some people, even in 2012, to HIV/AIDS says much more about those people than about anyone who might have HIV. The sheer ignorance and prejudice about HIV is much, much uglier than someone having the virus.

[billy goat]

05:35 PM on 02/01/2012

Yes, his face is a little gaunt. It's a hard balance between doing what is right for you health wise and having a life worth enjoying. Still any self respect gay man can find a way. What puzzles me is his insistance for working on Fox. I'm sure he gets paid great, but can't he find a job that doesn't put him in an ethical dilemma. I won't even consider going out with him until he resigns from Fox.

[WeirdScience]

01:48 AM on 02/03/2012

Too late now. He's got the "Fox stink" and when you get it, there's no cure.

[monmouth]

04:36 PM on 02/01/2012

Even though I never watch Fox, I do like Shep. My advice, one half-pint of your favorite ice cream...Works wonders and will put that weight back on in a matter of hours. I can testify...

[ljconner]

05:19 PM on 02/01/2012

U r totally right.....I have experienced the ice cream theory myself !!!!

[WiltonDiary]

03:38 AM on 02/02/2012

Maybe he should have used pro tection.

[Kreskytim]

09:48 AM on 02/02/2012

You comment is out of bounds.

[Marcia720]

04:11 PM on 02/01/2012

The only guy worth watching on Fox - go figure.

[liry]

10:06 PM on 02/01/2012

Have to agree. F& f'ed

[mavpay]

03:22 PM on 02/01/2012

If you hear on FOX "news?" or if ANY of their opereatives' lips are moving, beware!

[amaboss52]

03:22 PM on 02/01/2012

I like Shep, and hope he really is ok!

[2008FedUP]

03:11 PM on 02/01/2012

The others AND their viewers feast on lies and licorice.

[Madtek]

02:19 PM on 02/01/2012

With longer hair and some flashy tight clothes, he could pass as a younger Mick Jagger.

[MRstoner2udude]

03:48 PM on 02/01/2012

Yeah! That's who it is. Thank you.