5 Celebrities Who've Lost Over 100 Pounds (And Shouted It From The Rooftops)

Losing 10 or 20 pounds is a fantastic achievement. But losing 100 pounds? That's a total transformation that more than justifies a bit of bragging. It takes patience, fortitude, and consistency to do what's necessary to shed that much weight. And it's hard for everyone, even people who work in healthcare and know the benefits of keeping within desirable weight parameters. 

Case in point, in an interview with TODAY, internal medicine physician Dr. Emi Hosoda described how she lost around 100 pounds twice. The second time, the doctor was over 50 and found that her age added to the challenge. Plus, she discovered that personal health factors, such as diabetes, which runs in her family, made it much harder to drop the pounds, even in a calorie deficit. 

As Dr. Hosoda pointed out, "[A]nyone would have the ideal body proposition if they could," noting that's the reason she counsels weight-loss patients at a holistic and individualized level. Despite these harsh realities, many people have managed to transform their bodies dramatically. Their ranks include five celebrities whose stories have proven both aspirational and inspirational.

Jelly Roll wasn't sure how much he weighed at his highest point. He estimated it was easily more than 500 pounds, but the scale only went that far. Although the musician's career was soaring, his health — particularly his heart health — wasn't. During a 2026 appearance on "The Joe Rogan Experience," the Grammy winner sadly acknowledged, "I could feel myself dying."

Faced with the possibility that his eating habits were shortening his lifespan, Jelly Roll began working with a therapist. "Once I started treating food like an addiction, it started changing everything for me," he confirmed to Men's Health. By treating his relationship with food like his previous issues with drugs (which he overcame), the "Son of a Sinner" hitmaker was able to systematically change the way he felt about eating. 

And, as Jelly Roll lost more weight and gained more mobility, he began trying different exercises, including mixed martial arts. By 2026, Jelly Roll had lost around 300 pounds.

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Former teen performer and legendary talk show host Ricki Lake spent years making a career out of playing lovable yet overweight female characters. In fact, as she proudly told ABC News, "Being fat worked." But in the 1990s, Lake decided to reinvent herself through chipping away at the excess weight on her frame. At her highest, the "Hairspray" star weighed 260 pounds. But, simply through a more focused diet and dedicated exercise program, she was ultimately able to take off an incredible 140 pounds, moving from a size 24 to a size 6 by the late 2000s.

In the years since, Lake has mostly kept it off too. However, in her 50s, she realized she had put on some extra pounds. As she had before, the TV personality buckled down and began working out more with her husband. They went on daily hikes, which Lake documented on her Instagram. In her post, the TV star added that "this is the healthiest way I've lost weight in all of my years" and noted that she didn't take any medication to achieve success (but she made sure not to throw any shade at people who need pharmaceuticals to help them get healthier).

In the 1990s, John Goodman was a beloved TV star known for his broad frame and round physique. But, in 2007, the esteemed actor decided to reframe his eating habits and increase his exercise intake. Goodman started by addressing his addictive use of alcohol, which he admitted during an interview with The Guardian was starting to kill him. After getting clean in rehab, he then started changing the way he ate and working with a trainer (learn more about alcohol use disorder as the medical journals explain it).

One tactic that the "Roseanne" star relied on in particular was giving up sugar. This method works to produce weight loss in many people who might otherwise consume too many "empty calories" in a day. Another of Goodman's go-to strategies was adopting a Mediterranean-style diet, which has been touted as a solidly healthy diet by medical professionals like Dr. Haitham Ahmed of Johns Hopkins Medicine. Dr. Ahmed has studied the benefits of the Mediterranean diet and avers, "With a healthier diet, exercise, weight maintenance and smoking avoidance, thousands of our participants were able to live longer and free of cardiovascular disease."

Goodman remains committed to staying fit nowadays too. Though he regained some weight over the past couple of decades, the beloved actor had lost more than 200 pounds by 2023 and appears to have kept the weight from coming back.

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Reality TV brought Jazz Jennings fame, but what audiences didn't realize was the battle that she faced with disordered eating behind the scenes. The TV personality revealed on Instagram in 2021 that she had binge eating disorder, a condition that caused Jennings to uncontrollably eat large portions of food. According to Johns Hopkins Medicine, up to two percent of individuals experience binge eating disorder. And a 2016 study in the International Journal of Eating Disorders showed that transgender individuals like Jennings exhibit a higher-than-average degree of disordered eating overall.

As the reality star's condition worsened, her weight consistently climbed and eventually landed above 200 pounds. In August 2024, though, Jennings unveiled a new body and attitude towards both food and exercise to the world via a video of her running. Having lost almost 100 pounds, she clarified on Instagram, "Good health is not a certificate you display, it is a constant effort!" By 2025, she had lost even more weight and once again took to Instagram to show her followers her impressively slimmed-down figure. 

Losing significant amounts of weight may be associated with younger adults. However, people over 50 can reduce their body size successfully as well. That's certainly been the experience of iconic actor Kathy Bates, who was in her 70s when she started a massive weight loss journey that took a total of seven years. A diabetes diagnosis triggered Bates to get serious about trimming down, especially since she'd seen how devastating it could be with her family members. 

"I got this diagnosis about diabetes — my father died of it; his mother died of it; one of my sisters is in peril," Bates explained during a 2025 interview with Variety. Consequently, she took her future into her own hands and totally revamped her lifestyle. But don't accuse the "Misery" star of relying on GLP-1s. Although she openly utilized newer drugs in the latter stages of her weight reduction, Bates cut calories and increased her exercise to drop most of the weight she lost. 

And, to any naysayers who claim otherwise, the Oscar winner is quick to use some very colorful, NSFW retorts to quickly dismiss their unsolicited opinions.