Charlize Theron Went to Extreme Length to Lose Weight, Skipped 3 Meals Everyday to Lose 30 lbs in Insanely Short Time Period

Charlize Theron is undoubtedly one of the best actresses in Hollywood. She has starred in numerous blockbuster movies including The Devil’s Advocate, Mad Max: Fury Road, and Atomic Blonde. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world and was honored with a motion picture star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Actors are often required to change their appearance for certain roles and this change often affects their bodies adversely. From growing out their hair to gaining weight in the form of muscles or otherwise, actors have to frequently adapt to such changes to do their roles.

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Charlize Theron had No Trouble in Losing Weight after Monster

The 2003 movie Monster established Charlize Theron as the first South African actress to have won an Academy Award. She had to gain a lot of weight for this movie. Similarly, for the 2018 movie Tully, Theron gained 50 pounds of weight and she revealed that she struggled to lose the weight. She explained both of these instances, saying:

“When I was 27, I did Monster, I lost 30 pounds, like, overnight. I missed three meals, and I was back to my normal weight. Then I did it at 43 for ‘Tully,’ and I remember a year into trying to lose the weight, I called my doctor and I said, ‘I think I’m dying because I cannot lose this weight.’ And he was like, ‘You’re over 40. Calm down. Your metabolism is not what it was.’ Nobody wants to hear that.”

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The struggle The Road actress went through to regain her body shape and weight has made the actress wary of gaining weight for roles. She has decided that she will never agree to do such roles ever again because once the weight has been gained and the movie is done, it is very hard to get back in shape.

Charlize Theron is Going to Avoid Action Movies

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Charlize Theron got her first speaking role as a hitwoman named Helda Svedberg in the 1996 neo-noir crime comedy 2 Days in the Valley. This movie gained her recognition due to her beauty and the fight sequence. She went on to star in several great action movies such as Mad Max: Fury RoadThe Italian Job, and The Old Guard.

However, with her increasing age, The Snow White and the Huntsman actress is starting to realize that action movies are not good for her body. She said: “What really bums me out is that I do action movies now and, if I get hurt, it takes a lot longer to heal than when I was in my 20s.”
More than anything, even her face has begun to show signs of aging sparking rumors that she has gotten plastic surgery, Theron wishes that her body was like when she was 25 years old as then she could hit her body on the wall and there would be barely any ache in her bones the next day.