It is one thing to have a great body that makes people drool and fantasize and people sure do go to great lengths to achieve that. But what if you have that wonderful physique and still have to shed pounds? Weird isn’t it?
Well’ that’s exactly what “The Twilight Saga” star Alex Meraz had to do for his role in a forthcoming film. Based on the real-life story of a young American surfer who was wrongly confined to a Peruvian prison with drug trafficking charges slapped on him, the role demanded an emaciated prison look which obviously Alex did not have.
Here’s how he explains it.
“I didn’t want to look like a Ken doll, you know what I mean?” he said. “It’s a Peruvian prison in the ’80s, which is nothing like an American prison. There’s not much food. There are definitely no free weights to work out with. So I couldn’t have a gym body.”
Apparently Meraz stopped weight-lifting, worked heavily on cardio, went on to reduce his food intake and even followed an all juice diet to achieve the lean look.
And just how much weight did he shed? A whopping 45 pounds! Meraz’s 5ft 11″ muscular frame weighed 185 pounds and after losing almost a quarter of his body weight, he could see his heart beating through his chest, as he put it.
Now that the film “The City of Gardens” is complete, Meraz is back to pumping iron to regain the wonderful muscle mass that he lost.
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