36 Celebrities Who Had Dramatic Weight Loss Transformations and What They've Said About It

Jelly Roll

Jelly Roll started his weight loss journey in 2022, at 540 lbs.; by April 2025, he revealed he had lost nearly 200 lbs. as of April 2025, and hoped to lose another 100 lbs.

“For the non-fluffy people in the world, I would give y’all some educational course here — to do all the fun stuff in life, you’ve got to be under 250,” he explained while on Jimmy Kimmel Live! “I want to skydive, I want to ride a roller coaster. I want to ride a bull.”

So how has he dropped the weight? “Dude, listen. I’ve been thinking about ways to make it sound cool, but I can’t. I’m eating a lot of protein and vegetables and walking. That’s what I’m doing,” he told Kimmel. He also trained for a 5K and started a Facebook group to encourage others to do the same.

“I wanna be on the cover of Men’s Health by March of 2026,” he said while on his wife, Bunnie XO’s, podcast in 2024, noting that it was the first time he ever publicly shared that aspiration. “That’s my new goal. I wanna have one of the biggest transformations.”

The “Save Me” singer continues on his journey as he was recently photographed looking nearly unrecognizable while in Australia on Oct. 21. “Pray for my bank account,” he recently joked after buying Louis Vuitton clothes in his new size.

Ed Sheeran

Singer Ed Sheeran decided to pursue a physical transformation after welcoming his kids, telling Men’s Health UK “I want to be able to do the night stuff. It all came in at the same time of wanting to be a responsible dad, wanting to feel and look good.” He was so proud of the results that he posed shirtless for the magazine.

He also wrote on an Instagram explaining his weight loss and fit physique: “Something I never thought I’d do, but here we are. 10 years ago I was a beer guzzling, kebab munching smoker. Having kids really made me knock all those bad habits on the head (excuse the pun), and I got heavily into exercise and moderation.”

Chrissy Metz

The This Is Us star stepped out at the Variety Power of Women event in May 2025, showing off the results of a nearly 100-lb. weight loss, a milestone she revealed to the Daily Mail a few months earlier.

“I want to age the best way that I can, and I want to be strong. And that’s really the impetus behind any of it,” she said of her decision to lose the weight. She shared that strength training had been a large part of her new routine, and added that she supported any method that people take to weight loss, including medication.

“It’s something I feel like, it is so personal and I think it’s important to destigmatize anything,” she said of drugs like Ozempic. “But I also think it’s people’s personal decision to decide what it is that they want to do for their body. I think ultimately, at the end of the day, we all just want to feel good and feel good about ourselves.”

Lizzo

Lizzo started her “weight release journey” back in 2023, in an effort to improve her mental health. Over the years, the star has been vocal about loving her body at any size — and also intentional about making sure she doesn’t use toxic language that might be harmful to her younger fans.

And while she hasn’t revealed the exact number of pounds she’s dropped, the work she’s been doing “very slowly” had led to a look that she’s been happy to show off on social media. In January 2025, she said she had reached her goal weight.

“I did it,” she wrote in the caption on a photo. “Today when I stepped on my scale, I reached my weight release goal. I haven’t seen this number since 2014! Let this be a reminder you can do anything you put your mind to. Time for new goals!” 

And though she’s happy to be open about her physical changes — which she said she felt she had to pursue because conversations about her weight overshadowed conversations about her talent — she has mixed feelings about how everyone seems to be shrinking as a result of the prevalence of GLP-1 drugs.

“And that’s the reality that nobody wants to talk about,” she wrote. “We’re in an era where the bigger girls are getting smaller because they’re tired of being judged.”

Russell Crowe

Russell Crowe spoke on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast about losing about 60 lbs. in a year, thanks to reducing his alcohol intake and getting shots to help reduce inflammation in order to allow him to be more active in spite of his arthritis. “What I want to do is make all these changes and make it a long-term situation,” he said, explaining that he’ll still drink a nice glass of wine with dinner, but not have a “casual” drink just “for the sake of it.”

Remi Bader

Remi Bader has had to clap back at critics who said her losing weight through bariatric surgery was taking the easy way out.

“Don’t let anyone ever tell you surgery is the easy way out. I worked hard to get here and i’m forever proud of myself 🩷,”  she wrote under a transformation video posted to Instagram showing her workout journey post-op.

The influencer, who built her platform on embracing her curves, opened up to Self about her weight loss journey, telling the mag, “I loved being curvy my whole life; I just did. It was who I was… I will always believe that you could be a bigger size and be healthy and happy,” she told the outlet. “I was for a while, that wasn’t a lie. But there was a point when it shifted, and I became really unhappy.”

She later told the outlet, “I was lost with my identity before… I wasn’t big enough at first and plus-size enough at first for the plus-size community. Then I became too big… for some brands even to work with. Now I’m too small? I actually don’t know where I’m supposed to be.”

Oprah

After publicly struggling with her weight over many years in the public eye, in 2024, Oprah said that she had used weight loss medication and lifestyle adjustments to reach a weight she was happy with. Her health journey began after having knee surgery, which led her to make exercise and dietary changes — but she realized that medication could help her keep from “yo-yoing” as she had done in the past.

“I realized I’d been blaming myself all these years for being overweight, and I have a predisposition that no amount of willpower is going to control,” she told PEOPLE. “Obesity is a disease. It’s not about willpower — it’s about the brain.”

“The fact that there’s a medically approved prescription for managing weight and staying healthier, in my lifetime, feels like relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and once again be ridiculed for. I’m absolutely done with the shaming from other people and particularly myself,” she said.

In a PEOPLE cover story in 2026, Oprah reflected on her weight loss and said she had tried to go off the weight loss medication, but gained 20 lbs. back over the course of the year after her 70th birthday, when she went “cold turkey.”

“It’s going to be a lifetime thing,” she explained. “I’m on high blood pressure medication, and if I go off the high blood pressure medication, my blood pressure is going to go up. The same thing is true now, I realize, with these medications. I’ve proven to myself I need it.”

Whoopi Goldberg

While discussing the ABC special Winfrey produced about the topic of weight loss medication on The View, Whoopi Goldberg told the audience she had lost weight herself with the help of Mounjaro.

“I will tell you, I weighed almost 300 lbs. when I made Till,” said Goldberg of the 2022 film she acted in and produced. She added that she didn’t realize the extent of her weight gain until one day, “I saw me and I thought, ‘Oh! That’s a lot of me!’ ”

She also urged compassion for anyone who has experienced weight gain or loss.

“Maybe the key is to stop judging everybody,” she said. “My weight has come and gone and up and down, but it’s never been an issue for me because I don’t listen to what other people say about me so it has never been a problem … Everyone has something to say but no one said, ‘How you doing?’ Because it involves so many other things.”

Post Malone

After welcoming his daughter in 2022, musician Post Malone decided to focus on his physical health and has lost 55 lbs., going from 240 lbs. to 185 lbs., he said during a June 2024 appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

On a previous appearance on The Howard Stern Show, Malone clarified that he did not weight loss medication to slim down, instead focusing on healthier food choices while on tour, including cutting out soda entirely.

“I lost 20 pounds doing that, and I was like, let’s keep going. Let’s keep building. And we just kept f—— rocking and rolling,” he said.

Whitney Leavitt

Whitney Leavitt got into fighting shape while appearing on season 34 of Dancing with the Stars, but had already lost weight in the public eye once before. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star has shared with followers that she has tried different means to lose weight after having her children, including WeightWatchers (she stopped after some difficulties with hypothyroidism) and a GLP-1 drug, which she went off because she didn’t like the side effects.

More recently, she said on the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast that tracking macros was the secret to her most recently weight loss, explaining that counting macros means tracking the amount of protein, carbohydrates and fats you consume. “It’s a lot, but I enjoy it,” she said.

Eric Stonestreet

Eric Stonestreet was diagnosed with diabetes around the same time as he began filming his role as Cam on Modern Family, and at the time, he underplayed the seriousness of the condition.

He admitted to feeling shame because of the diagnosis and hiding “injectables and pills” from his now-fiancée Lindsay Schweitzer, until a few years into their eight-year relationship.

Still, it wasn’t until the death of his father, who also had diabetes, that Stonestreet got a wake-up call. “He passed away from leukemia, but the thing that was the most painful for him was his diabetic neuropathy. And I just decided, well, I can’t go down that road,” the actor explained to PEOPLE.

Additionally, Stonestreet revealed that the thought of not being there for his and Schweitzer’s 13-year-old twin sons made him turn things around.

“They’re her kids but I’ve known them since 3 so they’re my kids as well,” he said. “And just like every parent, I want to be around. So I just decided, I gotta stop this train from going that direction and reverse it a little bit as best I can.”

The actor then got on Mounjaro, which he has been taking since 2022. “It’s a game changer,” he said. “It has just been incredible. It’s changed my lifestyle, changed my approach to eating, changed my approach to exercise.” He added that he wants to maintain those changes long-term: “Here these people have invented this incredible thing that clearly does its part. Now I need to contribute my part.”

At the couple’s wedding in September 2025, he showed off his slimmed-down figure in a dark suit.

John Goodman

John Goodman’s weight loss journey began back in 2007, and he has been on a steady path since. The actor, who first came to prominence in the late ’80s and early ’90s playing Dan Conner on Roseanne, has lost 200 lbs., thanks to a consistent healthy diet and workout regimen.

“I don’t want to be an example to anybody when the weight comes thundering back on — when I start eating Crisco out of the can with a spoon and a side of confectioner’s sugar,” he joked to AARP when speaking about what motivated him to stay the course.

Amy Schumer

Amy Schumer lost 50 lbs., “not to look hot which does feel fun and temporary,” she wrote on Instagram in 2025. “I did it to survive.”

Addressing speculation about her figure, which she had been showing off in at-home photoshoots, Schumer confirmed that she had used the GLP-1 drug Mounjaro (after previously having difficulty tolerating Ozempic) to address her Cushing’s Syndrome, “I had a disease that makes your face extremely puffy that can kill you, but the internet caught it, and the disease has cleared,” she wrote, saying that she was now “pain free” and able to be active with her son Gene.

“Sorry for whatever feeling it’s giving you that I lost that weight,” Schumer wrote. “Sorry to anyone that lets down.”

Jim Gaffigan

Jim Gaffigan lost 50 lbs. using Mounjaro — the brand name for tirzepatide, a prescription drug used to treat type 2 diabetes that also helps people lose weight. And though some aren’t as open about using the medication, Gaffigan has been very candid about his experience.

“I had very low expectations because I did know someone that had tried it and they were like, ‘Oh no, I was just nauseous for a week,'” he told PEOPLE. “And then I thought my true joy of eating would overpower anything.”

However, after his doctor asked if he’d considered the medication, the actor gave it a go. “She was like, ‘Well, some people are against it.’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t care, I’ll try it.’ My knees hurt and my cholesterol was kind of not great,” Gaffigan says.

As for the stigma that may come with having used a weight-loss drug, Gaffigan has no qualms about it.

“I almost thought it was kind of odd that people were resistant to talking about it. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it,” he said. “There’s people walking around that obviously do not have blonde hair — yet they do. I don’t think that’s weird, either. It’s just whatever gets you through.”

Fat Joe

At his heaviest, Fat Joe weighed 470 lbs. However, after attending the funeral for Big Pun — who died aged 28, from a heart attack — the Bronx native knew he had to make a change.

“I went to his funeral and I felt like Ebenezer Scrooge. Like, I seen me,” Fat Joe recalled. “And I’m looking at his little daughter. She was the same age as my daughter. I said, ‘You gotta lose weight; otherwise you outta here.'”

He has since lost about 250 lbs., thanks to a cleaner diet and Ozempic.

“We just try to eat everything with the least carbs as possible…so we try to stay away from the bread, the pasta, the rice. That’s the smartest way to eat,” he told Us Weekly.

Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy’s appearance on Saturday Night Live in Dec. 2025 had fans noticing that she appeared to have lost weight. The star’s weight has fluctuated over time; in March 2016, she told Refinery29 that she figured she would be “be up, I’ll be down, probably for the rest of my life.”

She has not commented publicly on her weight recently, but has discussed it over the years, in particular, her approach to body positivity.

“There’s an epidemic in our country of girls and women feeling bad about themselves based on what .5% of the human race looks like,” she said. “It starts very young. My message is that as long as everybody’s healthy, enjoy and embrace whatever body type you have.”

Billy Gardell

Billy Gardell lost 170 lbs. after undergoing bariatric surgery, but the Bob Hearts Abishola actor says the procedure was just the beginning of his journey.

“My suggestion to anybody who’s considering this is to study and really immerse yourself in the commitment it takes after the surgery to maintain this and take care of yourself,” he told PEOPLE.

“If you’re not willing to make that commitment, don’t do the surgery. But if you are willing to make that commitment, then it’s been an incredibly healthy change for my life.”

After going through a pattern where he’d “lose 30 lbs., gain 35 lbs., lose 30 lbs., gain 35 lbs.,” the COVID-19 pandemic made him realize he was more at risk of catching the virus because of his health. The thought of leaving his family behind gave him the jolt he needed to move forward with the surgery.

“The idea of not being here for my wife or my kid motivated my change, motivated me into I will commit to whatever it takes to get healthy,” he said. “Sometimes you need help and you have to be humble enough to ask for help in order for that to happen.”

Speaking to PEOPLE in Dec. 2025, Gardell said his health was better than ever. “My diabetes is gone,” he says. “I feel strong. I have energy. Losing weight saved my life.”

Kathy Bates

Academy Award-winning actress Kathy Bates revealed she lost 100 lbs. over six years, but it was not all due to Ozempic. The actress first lost 80 lbs. through sheer changes to her lifestyle and diet, she told PEOPLE. She then dropped another 20 on Ozempic.

“There’s been a lot of talk that I just was able to do this because of Ozempic,” Bates says. “But I have to impress upon people out there that this was hard work for me, especially during the pandemic. It’s very hard to say you’ve had enough.”

Dave Bautista

As a former pro wrestler, Dave Bautista has been relatively in shape throughout his career. However, after bulking up to 300 lbs. for his role as Leonard in Knock at the Cabin, the actor went into serious shredding mode and dropped 50 lbs. using jiu-jitsu.

“I put on all this weight for Knock at the Cabin. I was really big, like over 300 lbs.,” he said while on Live with Kelly and Mark. “I was struggling to lose the weight, so I brought a trainer — my buddy Jason Manly — over to Budapest with me while I was filming Dune,” he said.

He added that the duo “did nothing but grapple, like for hours. And so I started shedding the weight off and I figured ‘I’ll just stick with it so I’ll get my brown belt.’“

Kelly Clarkson

While Kelly Clarkson has been more private about her weight loss journey, she did disclose that she’s taking “something that aids in helping break down the sugar,” because her body “doesn’t do it right,” and addressed the Ozempic rumors.

“My doctor chased me for two years, and I was like, ‘No, I’m afraid of it. I already have thyroid problems.’ Everybody thinks it’s Ozempic, but it’s not. It’s something else.”

Adele

Adele’s quest for better mental health led to her weight loss, though the singer stressed that wasn’t the end goal. She began working out as a way to manage her anxiety in 2018, and three years later, she was down 100 lbs.

“It became my time,” she told Vogue of her intensive weightlifting and circuit training sessions at Heart & Hustle, a private gym in West Hollywood. “I realized that when I was working out, I didn’t have any anxiety. It was never about losing weight. I thought, If I can make my body physically strong, and I can feel that and see that, then maybe one day I can make my emotions and my mind physically strong.”

Khloé Kardashian

Perhaps no other Kardashian sister has had to deal with more public criticism about her appearance than Khloé Kardashian and the reality TV star has talked openly about how hurtful it’s been — as well as what now motivates her to stay in shape.

The third Kardashian sister revealed she dropped 40 lbs. following her divorce from Lamar Odom, but has now turned her focus more on being healthy than obsessing over the number on a scale.

“When I was bigger, if they had Ozempic, I probably would have tried it, cause I tried any other thing,” she said during an episode of The Kardashians. “I tried any fad weight loss trend except for the real thing that actually works, and that’s a lifestyle change.”

“So I really want to encourage healthiness, and not about the number on a scale. I just think people should be active,” she said. “I don’t really care what your size is. You should just be healthy and stronger for yourself. 

Rebel Wilson

Rebel Wilson‘s desire to become a mother was the catalyst for her weight loss journey. The actress visited her fertility doctor back in 2019, who revealed she’d have a much better chance of harvesting and freezing her eggs if she lost weight.

“He looked me up and down and said, ‘You’d do much better if you were healthier,’ ” Wilson told PEOPLE in 2022.

“I was taken aback. I thought, ‘Oh God, this’s guy’s so rude.’ He was right. I was carrying around a lot of excess weight. It’s almost like I didn’t think of my own needs. I thought of a future child’s needs that really inspired me to get healthier.”

She went on to lose 80 lbs. and welcomed daughter Royce Lillian in 2022. She and her wife Ramona Agruma are currently expecting their second.

In Sept. 2025, Wilson admitted that parenting and her career were getting in the way of her prioritizing her health as much as she’d like, but the good habits she set during her first weight loss journey have helped her stay more or less on track.

“My exercising is brought down to a bare minimum right now, but I’ve learned some really positive things in the last five years,” she told PEOPLE. “I’m definitely not perfect, but at least some of the things I stick to now.”

David Harbour

Though David Harbour had fans swooning over his ripped physique in season 4 of Stranger Things, the actor said he doesn’t see himself dropping weight for a role ever again.

Harbour lost 80 lbs. for season 4 of the Netflix show because his character, Jim Hopper, was held captive by Russians at a labor camp at the top of the season. To get the weight off, he took on intermittent fasting and Pilates.

“I lost about 80 lbs. from season three — I was about 270 [then], and when we shot [season four] I was around 190,” Harbour told British GQ.

“I don’t think I’ll ever do that again,” he told the outlet. “I have this Santa Claus movie [Violent Night] … and I gained [it all back]. But now, yeah, never again. The prosthetics are too good.”

Ethan Suplee

Remember the Titans and My Name Is Earl star Ethan Suplee lost 250 lbs. and has kept it off for nearly two decades, since his peak at 536 lbs. He now shares his commitment to his gym routine and overall health on his Instagram, and encourages others to prioritize their own health.

Suplee, who told PEOPLE he once had to go to a shipping center to be weighed on a freight scale, decided to lose weight after meeting his future wife and realizing he wanted to be around for a future with her. Since getting married, they’ve welcomed four daughters and he has continued to pursue his health goals, including getting to 9% body fat at one point.

“I cannot say that actually losing weight has made me happier. I don’t think that’s true,” he told PEOPLE at the time. “I just think that achieving something I set out to achieve has given me this volume of happiness that is pretty great.”

Andy Richter

Another star who achieved a personal physical best during Dancing with the Stars season 34, Andy Richter credited the workouts from the show along with a GLP-1 drug for helping him lose weight.

“In a previous time I might have said, ‘Well, this show has been also a physical transformation for me because of the exercise and I’ve lost weight.’ And also … thank you, Zepbound. Zepbound helped a lot,” Richter, 59, told Julianne Hough during a Nov. 12 appearance on The Morning After (Show). “I’m never going to … be cagey about that because I think it’s silly to.”

He added that when his time on the show was over, he was going to maintain his cardio regimen, because he had seen how beneficial it was to helping him achieve his goals.

“Now it’s like, when this show is done, knees willing, I’m back in the gym.” Richter said. “I haven’t needed to do anything but dance [until now] … I’m curious as to, like, when I get back on an elliptical, like how long I can go and how much higher I can do the resistance and all this stuff.”

Al Roker

Al Roker famously underwent gastric bypass surgery back in 2002 after years of failed diets and health problems, and was able to drop more than 100 lbs.

Twenty years later, the beloved weatherman looked back on his life-changing decision with a post on Instagram where he could be seen pulling out his old jeans — and showing how he could fit his whole body in just half of the pair.

“Hard to believe it was 20 years ago today, I wore these size 54 Levi jeans to my #gastricbypass at 340 lbs. and here I am today,” Roker wrote.

“It’s still a struggle but I’m never going back,” he vowed. “I have setbacks and struggle every day, but I never forget how far I’ve come.”

He’s kept the weight off for decades, and told PEOPLE in 2025 that the key is to focus on small and achievable goals to keep progress steady.

“Moderation rather than deprivation is better in the long run. If you deprive yourself of stuff that you like, eventually you’re going to snap and go crazy,” he said, adding that when it comes to exercise, “My mantra is ‘something is better than nothing,’ Maybe you’ll be running marathons or entering weight-lifting contests, but I think most people just want a level of fitness that improves their quality of life.”

Jennifer Hudson

Jennifer Hudson was a proud, full-figured woman when she came on the scene on American Idol back in 2004. However, she decided to make some lifestyle and diet changes and shed 80 lbs. as a Weight Watchers spokeswoman between 2010 and 2014.

“I throw the pancakes across the room! I don’t let the food intimidate me,” she told Yahoo of how she keeps the weight off. “If it’s too much, I just get rid of it, but I make sure to watch what I put in my body. And I make sure I know what it is. It’s all about portions for the most part. I just take care of myself in that way, being more conscious. I don’t work out a lot, but I do like to be active. Simple as that.”

Shonda Rhimes

Shonda Rhimes‘ 117 lbs. weight loss was also inspired by the desire to be around for her daughters.

While on the Ellen DeGeneres Show back in 2015, the Shondaland pioneer opened up about an eye-opening moment that spawned her journey. “I got on an airplane … it was a first class seat, you know, they’re bigger, and I was like: ‘This is going to be really comfortable,’” Rhimes recalled.

“And I got in my seat, I took off my shoes, I took out my book and I went to buckle my seatbelt – and it wouldn’t buckle. And I thought to myself, ‘Well, something is wrong with this seatbelt, it’s broken.’ And it wasn’t the seatbelt, it was me.”

She continued: “It really was about the fact that I have a 3-year-old, and a 2-year-old, and a 13-year-old, and I kind of wanted to be around for them, to be healthy.”

“I’m super feminist, and I’m like, ‘Everybody should be whatever shape they want to be, how dare anybody tell anybody anything!’ ” she said. “And then I thought like, ‘I’m going to fall over, cause I don’t feel good.’ So it was really about that.”

Jazz Jennings

In June 2025, the I Am Jazz star shared a few updates with fans on her Instagram: She’d walked across the stage at her Harvard graduation ceremony (though she has one more semester to go), and she had a “new look” after losing 100 lbs.

The selfies she shared were a culmination of the work she’d been putting in over the past two years, a weight loss journey she had shared updates on along the way.

“No matter my weight, I have always felt beautiful,” she said at one point. “However, losing this weight and prioritizing my health has created a shift within.”

Heather Gay

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Heather Gay first revealed that she was using Ozempic for weight loss in November 2023, and has since shed nearly 30 lbs.

Gay said she had always struggled with her weight, and found it upsetting to see how much better she was treated when she did lose weight with the help of GLP-1 drugs.

“Even after being on television, writing a New York Times bestselling book, for the first time, I was being valued — by my castmates, by the public — in a way that I had never been valued before,” she said. “And that felt, to me, sad.”

She added that she thinks a lot about what that means for her three daughters.

“I don’t want to lie to them and say, ‘It doesn’t matter. What matters is on the inside.’ But it does matter. I don’t know why that’s the way it is in the world, but that has been my experience,” she said. “I have beautiful, vibrant, empowered daughters and I would hate for them to think that their value is limited to their dress size.”

Jacob Batalon

Jacob Batalon dropped 100 lbs. after realizing he couldn’t walk upstairs without being out of breath.

“This one day I kind of just saw myself without a shirt on and it was just ridiculous,” he explained. “I could not believe I let myself get this far. That’s what sort of started it all.”

The Spiderman actor enlisted the help of a trainer, began working out six days a week for about 90 minutes and switched to a plant-based diet and began losing weight in 2020.

Anthony Anderson

For Anthony Anderson, being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes initially only led to some small changes in his lifestyle.

“I started eating healthier and in moderation, but I was still sort of eating the same stuff that I’d been eating all my life,” he admitted to PEOPLE.

But a new role made him change his tune entirely. “When I was cast in Law & Order, I decided to make a drastic change,” says Anderson. “I got more serious about my health and appearance — not from a vanity standpoint. I just started making healthier choices.”

By 2014, he’d lost 47 lbs. and altered his diet. “I moved to a plant-based diet,” he told PEOPLE. “I’m vegan-ish — I’m not going to send anything back to the kitchen if some butter or cream found its way onto the plate.”

Missy Elliott

Missy Elliott was diagnosed with Graves’ disease in 2008, a thyroid condition which not only led to depression and anxiety, but a significant amount of weight loss as well.

“There were physical changes, extreme headaches, extreme weight loss,” her friend Sharaya J. told Women’s Health of that difficult time in Elliott’s life. “What that does to a person, being a public figure and knowing people are looking, judging? That’s a tough thing.”

These days, Elliott has said, she manages her condition with medication, diet and exercise.

“Every day I wake, I’m blessed to be here and in good health,” she told PEOPLE in 2024. “I’m feeling so much better now … Every now and then you get a little ache in the leg or the knee, but outside of that, I feel good.”

Mo’nique

No one reveled in her curves more than Mo’Nique, but at one point, the comedian decided to begin taking better care of her health. The actress lost over 80 lbs. and in 2018, she celebrated weighing under 200 lbs. for the first time in her adult life.

“I said that I would share this journey with y’all, the weight loss and getting healthy,” Mo’Nique said in a video shared to Instagram.

“And today when I got on the scale, since I was 17 years old, I’ve been over 200 lbs. Today was the first time in my adult life that I’ve been under 200 lbs. So I wanted to let y’all know it’s possible, we can do it and we can get there.”

To this day, Mo’Nique continues to share motivational videos of herself hitting the gym, staying disciplined and committing to her health journey.

Jonah Hill

Jonah Hill was never shy about speaking publicly about his weight, including discussing a 40-lb. weight loss in 2011, but recently, he surprised many by debuting a noticeably slimmer figure (and blond hair) on the set of his film Cut Off in Oct. 2025.

In a 2021 Instagram post (which has since been deleted) Hill opened up about how his journey to self-acceptance was “exacerbated by years of public mockery” at the hands of “press and interviewers.”

“I don’t think I ever took my shirt off in a pool until I was in my mid 30s even in front of family and friends,” he wrote. “So the idea that the media tries to play me by stalking me while surfing and printing photos like this and it can’t [faze] me anymore is dope. I’m 37 and finally love and accept myself.”

He has not spoken publicly about his recent weight loss, but following that Instagram post, he got a tattoo of the words “body love” on his shoulder.