Photos on 50 Cent’s website appear to show his dramatic weight loss

These shocking photos on 50 Cent’s official website show the dramatic weight loss the star went through to play a cancer victim in a new movie.The images posted on ThisIs50.com show a gaunt, boney head almost unrecognizable as the rapper famed for his muscular physique.The rapper went through the dramatic weight loss to play an American football player diagnosed with cancer in Things Fall Apart, a movie he also wrote. “I lost 54 pounds for it,” 50 said of his role, inspired by a friend of his who died of cancer. “I was starving.”