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Small change! 50 Cent drops 54 pounds for film

The rapper dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks to play a cancer patient in "Things Fall Apart."
/ Source: Us Weekly

Lean times!

Inspired by a pal who died of cancer, 50 Cent penned and stars in "Things Fall Apart," a flick about a football player stricken with the disease.

Photos: Scary skinny stars

“I lost 54 pounds for it,” the 6-foot rapper, 34 — who dropped from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for nine weeks — tells the new Us Weekly (on newsstands now). "I was starving."

Photos: Controversial bodies of 2009

Now he’s back on tour and says, "I’ve been eating. I’ll be back in shape in no time!"