Wow! You will not recognize these celebrities after their transformation
What a transformation these people have gone through!
Celebrities regularly undergo huge transformations. Whether it’s for a movie role, or because they get to work themselves with a team of personal trainers, stylists, etcetera. Here, we list 30 celebrities that have gone through a major metamorphosis!
We collected a few of the most impressive transformations. Who do you think is the most impressive?
Adele – Singer
British singer Adele is of course famous for her set of pipes. For years she has topped the charts with songs like Rolling in the Deep, Hello, and Someone Like You. The singer has always been outspoken about her weight. “I don’t need to be a thin model”, she once said. In the spring of 2020, however, the singer stunned her fans with a picture on Instagram, in which she had lost quite a few pounds.
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A world of difference after pregnancy
On her birthday in 2020, the singer shared the picture below with the world. The English talent had clearly lost a decent number of pounds and was not afraid to show her toned figure to the entire world. Her former personal trainer, Pete Geracimo, said it was never a goal of the singer to become ‘thin’. “It was always about her health for her”, he wrote in Instagram. In short: Adele is fitter than ever.
Shia Labeaouf – actor
Many actors begin their career at an incredibly young age. As an audience, we see them grow up in the spotlight. That is not easy for everyone. Take Shia Labeouf for example. Born in 1986, the actor had roles in several movies and TV shows at the age of twelve. In 2007 he had his big break with the movie Disturbia, among others.
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From child actor to superstar
Nowadays, Shia Labeouf is incredibly famous as an actor. He has shone on the silver screen in the Transformers series, but also in Indiana Jones, and recently in the award-winning Netflix movie Pieces of a Woman. Additionaly, Labeouf is active as a performance artist. For example, in 2014 he appeared on the red carpet with a paper bag over his head.
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Oprah Winfrey – Talk show-host
Of course we all know Oprah Winfrey as the former host of the wildly popular show Oprah. Over the years, she’s been very open about her battle with weight loss. The can-all woman would have rather been a few pounds lighter than rich.
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Talk show legend yo-yos through the years
Over the years, Oprah Winfrey has lost and regained a significant amount of weight several times. Because she was in the spotlights thanks to her role as groundbreaking talk show host, she came under fire for this regularly as well. In 1988 her gigantic transformation, which she says she had achieved mainly by fasting, became subject of a scandal. In 2005 she would not have much positive to say about her diet in O Magazine. “I didn’t know that my metabolism was ruined because of this. After I started eating normally, I gained five kilos again within two weeks. Now, seventeen years later, I know better.”
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Christian Bale – actor
The English actor Christian Bale has proven himself as an amazingly hard worker during his career in Hollywood. One of the most shocking transformations he went through was between his movie roles for The Machinist (2004) and batman Begins (2005). In the former, Bale plays a man who suffers from severe mental issues, such as a complete lack of sleep. He completely starved himself which led Bale to lose no less than 28 kilos for this role.
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From emaciated to gigantic beefcake
One of the first movie roles Bale took on after The Machinist, was that of superhero Batman. Right: the muscular action hero who manages to save the fictional city of Gotham from all kinds of bad guys. After shooting The Machinist, Bale had six months left to transform his body again. In his own words, he stuffed himself with food as much as possible, and exercised a lot to fit into the famous Batsuit.
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Natalie Portman – Actress
Actress Natalie Portman too has experience undergoing a significant physical change for a movie role. The American played masterfully in the movie Black Swan, for which she was awarded an Oscar, among other things. However, she had to work hard for her role as a ballet dancer.
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From actress to ballet dancer
The life of a ballet dancer is quite different from that of an actress. Natalie Portman said herself that on some days, her awful diet and rigid workout schedule made her feel ‘like she could die at any moment’.
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50 Cent – rapper en actor
Rapper 50 Cent (real name: Curtis Jackson) is active as an actor as well. We all know him as the beefcake that could be seen running on a treadmill and hanging from the ceiling in the music video of one his first big hit In Da Club. He let his muscles and his abs shine in the spotlight. But for his role as a cancer patient in the movie All Things Fall Apart, Jackson had to say goodbye to his muscles. He also underwent another remarkable change.
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From beefcake to severe disease
For his role in All Things Fall Apart the rapper had to lose a significant amount of weight. This is because he played a talented American Football player, who has to drastically revise his dreams and goals in life after he’s diagnosed with cancer. ‘Fitty’ lost about 24 kilos for the role. He also got rid of the tattoos on his arms. “It saves the makeup team a lot of time”, he said about this. This originally started with the movie Twelve. “With my tattoos, I had to be on set four hours before other people did, so we could hide them with makeup”. Eventually, this led to Jackson having his tattoos removed.
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Kristen Stewart – actress
Actress Kristen Stewart also spent a large part of her childhood in the spotlights. For example, she started out at age nine with a small role in a Disney movie. Eventually she would blossom into one of the most popular actresses among young people thanks to her work as Bella Swan in the Twilight movies. At the tender age of 22, she was suddenly in the center of attention. Her relationship with Robert Pattinson, Twilight costar, generated a lot of extra attention. Whether the couple liked it or not.
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A few years later, a new haircut
Nowadays, you would not recognize the young actress at all. Kristen Stewart underwent a major transformation from teenage idol to free-spirited actress. For example, in recent years, she has mainly focused on smaller indie movies. In the meantime, Stewart came out as bisexual as well. In addition, she’s clearly a lot more comfortable in her own skin. The actress told ELLE magazine that she had a lot of trouble dealing with the pressure and attention that she got as Bella Swan. “I had panic attacks…and always had a stomach ache and was a terrible control freak.” But now? “I grew out of it”, she says.
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