John Goodman unrecognizable in new photo after years of dramatic weight loss

 

A new photo of John Goodman is making people do a double take, with the 74-year-old actor looking “so skinny” and “unrecognizable” after his dramatic weight loss.

For viewers who remember Goodman as Dan Conner on Roseanne, Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski, or from the many other roles that have made him a familiar face for decades, the actor was once known for his much heavier frame.

In fact, Goodman, who stars as the loveable Sully in Monsters, Inc., once tipped the scales at close to 400 pounds and previously admitted that he would lose large amounts of weight before eventually slipping back into the same habits and gaining it again.

“I’d get off of Roseanne every spring. I’d lose 60 pounds every spring,” he told David Letterman in 2010, per People. “I’d gain it back and then some, every year. It’s going to be an ongoing process for the rest of my life.”

‘Eating alcoholically’

That same year, however, he had lost more than 100 pounds after cutting sugar from his diet and committing to regular exercise, while working out six days a week. He had also stopped drinking alcohol three years earlier, People reports.

“I’m breaking a sweat but I’m not going nuts,” he told the outlet. “I know it sounds sappy, but it was a waste. It takes a lot of creative energy to sit on your ass and figure out what you’re going to eat next…I wanted to live life better.”

The Flintstones star later explained that instead of chasing another dramatic short-term drop on the scale, he wanted to make healthy changes he could maintain.

“I just stopped eating all the time,” Goodman said in an interview with ABC News. “I’d have a handful of food, and it’d go to my mouth. I was just eating all the time. I was just eating alcoholically.”

“In the old days, I would take three months out, lose 60 or 70 pounds, and then reward myself with a 6-pack of Bud or whatever and just go back to my old habits,” he shared.

‘Sick and tired of looking at myself’

Looking back at the cycle he had fallen into, Goodman admitted that losing weight had never been the only problem – keeping it off was another matter entirely.

“This time I wanted to do it slowly, move, exercise. I’m getting to the age where I can’t afford to sit still anymore. And it gives me the energy to work, because work is very draining.”

The motivation behind that change went deeper than simply wanting to see a different number on the scale.

“I just got tired, sick and tired of looking at myself. You’re shaving in the mirror, and you don’t want to look at yourself. It gets dangerous,” Goodman said.

Over the years, those changes have seen Goodman lose around 200 pounds, transforming the appearance audiences had grown accustomed to seeing throughout his career.

And his latest appearance shows just how dramatic that transformation has been.

‘He’s so skinny’

In early August, Goodman crossed paths with fellow actor David DeLuise at a grocery store, where the pair stopped to take a photo together before DeLuise shared the encounter on Instagram.

DeLuise, who played Jerry Russo on Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place,” was clearly thrilled by the chance meeting, smiling beside a noticeably slimmer Goodman as the two posed in one of the store’s aisles.

“He was my childhood!! Legend!” DeLuise wrote alongside the photo on Instagram. “I love that I get to say that to someone ;), if you know you know.”

Goodman’s much slimmer appearance quickly caught the attention of people in the comments.

“Is that john Goodman? He’s unrecognizable,” one user shared in the comment section.

“He’s so skinny,” wrote a second, while a third penned, “I love John Goodman! Yes, he looks very different, but I bet he feels great!”

“The right way…NOT another GLP-1 zombie!” added another.

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