10 biggest celebrity shifts
many actors are typecast and only
find
themselves playing very specific
roles
but other performers are renowned
for
their ability to shapeshift from
movie
to movie
often this involves drastic changes
in
body weight and appearance
today we're looking at the craziest
celebrity transformations of all
time
we all know the tabloid world has
been
watching eagerly for years for
signs
that 65 year old bruce jenner was
transitioning into a woman
she is now known as caitlyn jenner
and
her physical form finally matches
the
identity that she has felt all her
life
caitlyn jenner transitioned in 2015
coming out on that now
infamous cover of vanity fair with
the
iconic call me caitlyn headline
that issue was published in june
2015
while in july 2015
she held a renaming ceremony
adopting
her new name caitlyn marie jenner
her name and gender were legally
changed
in september of that year
and she completed gender
reassignment
surgery in 2017.
speaking in her book the secrets of
my
life caitlyn explained how
liberated she
felt going under the knife
saying the surgery was a success
and i
feel not only wonderful but
liberated
i'm going to live authentically for
the
first time in my life the reality
star
and olympic athlete
spoke about how she broke the news
to
her family when she became caitlyn
especially her 10
adopted and biological children she
says
i'm very proud of my life i was
with
ashton eaton the other day who won
the
last two olympic decathlons in a
row
and i told him you know i've got a
double too i won the olympic
decathlon
and i also got glamour woman of the
year
award
so that's one that i'm very proud
of and
i told him don't you dare break
that
and so i'm proud that finally after
a
long long long journey
i can finally live my life
authentically
and move forward
and be happy
michael jackson is debatably the
biggest
pop star of all time
but he also had some serious
eccentricities and struggled to
determine his own identity
for all his towering influence as a
recording artist michael jackson
lives
in the popular consciousness not
only as
a huge talent but as a shadowy
figure of
intense self-conflict a man who
spent
his career in flight from his
audience
the world and himself he didn't
want to
be michael joseph jackson
said j randy tara borelli who has
followed jackson's career for three
decades and wrote an unauthorized
biography
he just wanted to be something else
and
he went about the business of doing
that
indeed there are no shortage of
theories
from plastic surgery experts and
biographers like tara borelli
about the possible nature and
number of
surgeries behind jackson's changing
appearance
and the reasons they believe the
star
did it as the makeovers became more
extreme the public seemed to become
ever
more fascinated
jackson ever seemed to tease his
fans
about the color of his skin
in the music video black or white
but
the lyrics were no confirmation he
was
changing his skin color according
to
jackson who told oprah winfrey in
1993
that the changing color of his skin
was
the result of a disease called vitiligo
i have a skin disorder that
destroys the
pigmentation of the skin jackson
told
winfrey it's something that i
cannot
help okay
but when people make up stories
that i
don't want to be who i am it hurts
me
this may be true but most experts
are
skeptical over the course of his
life he
bleached his skin and underwent
numerous
plastic surgeries that left him
unrecognizable
like it or not joker which follows
the
transformation of arthur fleck
played by
joaquin phoenix a down and out
clown and
aspiring comic
into the villainous joker cleaned
up
this award season most of the love
has
gone to joaquin phoenix who has
already
won several awards for his
performance
phoenix lost 52 pounds for the role
a
process that he suggested informed
his
performance
the first thing for us was the
weight
loss said phoenix when joker
debuted at
the venice film festival
i think that's really what i
started
with and as it turns out that then
affects your psychology
you start to go mad when you lose
that
amount of weight in that amount of
time
director todd phillips said he
offered
up a nutritionist to joaquin
phoenix to
help him execute their vision for
arthur
fleck to get skinny for the role
but the
actor made this simple choice to
starve
himself and live off of apples
now this could be an exaggeration
but
the actor once told access
hollywood
word for word that it wasn't an
apple a
day
explaining that he also had lettuce
and
steamed green beans in his diet as
well
he jokingly complained about todd
phillips having his favorite
pretzels in
his office while he was trying to
lose
the weight
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if anyone knows about hard times
it's
the rock he says that in the big
moments
he always remembers the hard times
putting things into perspective and
finding gratitude in every
situation
whatever he's doing it seems to be
working rock went from a no-name
cfl
player to the face of wwe
he struggled in hollywood early but
clearly that's another obstacle he
would
conquer
becoming the biggest and most
popular
star in the industry today
however we cannot distinguish these
two
personas so easily since dwayne's
acting
career started the first time he
entered
the ring
it is pretty obvious that wwe has a
lot
more acting and fake punches than
real
combat so wwe is more performance
than
sport
the rock was only playing roles
that
were assigned to him and he was
walking
between a hero and a villain with
the
goal to become the people's
champion
later on
as you can see since his wrestling
days
johnson committed to giving the
people
what they want
though he certainly had a muscular
build
when he was a wrestler johnson has
since
become totally
ripped and is one of the most built
actors in hollywood
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nicki minaj is one of the biggest
rappers of her generation
if you've ever seen her it might
shock
you to hear that the rap superstar
denies having gone under the knife
she slammed rumors in an interview
with
extra claiming i've never had
surgery on
my face
god it's makeup people despite
being
under the public eye with over 107
million followers on instagram
nikki has kept details of her
private
life hidden in plain sight
in an interview with e online she
admitted that she wasn't always so
flashy and fierce
before my first album i used to
have a
natural look only my really underground
followers knew that side of me
nowadays the super bass lady boss
is
famous for her chart topping hits
out of this world fashion colorful
wigs
and controversial twerking
performances
nikki has come a long way from her
humble beginnings in the bronx from
red
lobster waitress to glamorous
hip-hop
legend she's grown in more ways
than one
though no one really knows if she
had
plastic surgery her image has
certainly
changed over the decades
probably the contemporary actor
most
closely associated with dramatic
shifts
in body type
christian bale has proven to be a
shape-shifter in numerous roles
of course hollywood has the ability
to
change body type using prosthetics
costumes and cgi
but fail is a bit of an obsessive
actor
who remains determined to perform
remarkable feats of physical
metamorphosis
no movie has a more dramatic weight
loss
than 2004's the machinist
losing 63 pounds in total bale
wanted to
embody a deeply unhealthy character
who
hasn't slept in months
the christian bale weight loss diet
consisted of an apple and a can of
tuna
fish per day
occasionally he used anne
hathaway's
weight loss strategy of eating just
two
thin squares of dried oatmeal
paste it's also reported that bale
drank
a lot of coffee
chewed gum smoked cigarettes and
ate
salads to prepare for his role
this feat is even more remarkable
because bale became extremely
muscular
for his role in the batman franchise
and
gained 40 pounds for his role in
vice
strangest of all the film's
producers
had no expectation that he
attempted
these wild body modifications
the motivation came solely from
bale
himself
if there's any celebrity who has
proven
themselves to be a true agent of
change
it's khloe kardashian the 34 year
old
mama has gone through quite the
physical
metamorphosis over the years
and she has emerged a truly
beautiful
butterfly not to say she wasn't
beautiful to begin with but you
can't
deny it's fun to look back and see
someone like koko's humble
beginnings
her transformation is truly one for
the
books according to the reality tv
star
i can't believe how far i've come i
almost can't believe that was me
if you've lost your motivation
don't
beat yourself up about it negative
thoughts only turn into negative
realities
by keeping positive about your body
your
inner health your mental sanity
your
fitness and what you're trying to
achieve
you're way more likely to succeed
my
fitness journey was for myself and
myself alone
on my terms and on my timeline
cheers to
us becoming better than we were
yesterday
jonah hill must be feeling really
motivated in the gym these days
after debuting a much slimmer
figure
back in 2016 the academy
award-nominated
actor has continued his weight loss
quest
a few months later hill's physique
looks
almost unrecognizable compared to
his
burly figure in films like superbad
the
sitter and this is the end
making for quite the body
transformation
in an honest sit-down interview
with
ellen degeneres the 34 year old
actor
said growing up in the spotlight
left
him vulnerable to criticisms about
his
body
i think everybody has a version of
themselves i call it a snapshot
at some point in life you're trying
to
hide from the world even if you get
success or grow up or become good
looking or whatever you kind of
carry
some part of that with you
he told the generous for me it's
definitely being like this 14 year
old
kid being overweight wanting to fit
in
with these skaters and hip-hop kids
and just feeling lonely and maybe
not
understanding my own worth
it's not like heart wasn't fit when
he
first started as a stand-up
comedian
but he was as he said in his men's
fitness cover story in fake shape
it looked like i was in shape but
then
you'd take off my shirt and it was
like
no no no
ron boss everline has been
traveling
with heart for two years now
helping the 36 year old hollywood
headliner get lean and strong
and when he's not putting heart
through
his daily paces everline also runs
his
own company
just train catering to clients like
neo
trey songz christina million and
derek
johnson
chris pratt's ability to make us
laugh
hasn't changed much at all
throughout
the years but his body certainly
has
a shirtless pratt in his latest
movie
guardians of the galaxy vol 2
has revealed some impressive abs
from
the hollywood star a far cry from
the
body we saw during the parks and
recreation days
pratt's workouts included p90x
running
swimming
boxing and kickboxing and he even
completed a triathlon
with the help of a personal trainer
and
nutritionist the actor increased
his
caloric intake to 4 000 calories a
day
and drank tons of water i was
peeing all
day long every day
that part was a nightmare pratt
told a
magazine in the end the results
were
worth it