Rapper 50 Cent, also known as Curtis Jackson, made his feature film debut in 2005’s Get Rich or Die Tryin’. Soon he’ll be appearing in a new film Things Fall Apart, in which he’ll have to lose 65 pounds.

While the project is already in development, 50 Cent will play a college football running back in his senior year who discovers he has cancer and has to face his own mortality. The rapper just began a two-month tour for his latest album Before I Self Destruct, but is already in the process of losing the weight. Not much is known as to how 50 is getting rid of the pounds, but let’s hope he does it in as healthy a way as possible.

Unfortunately for 50 Cent it’s not as simple as donning a fat suit, but one can only wonder if he will turn to Christian Bale’s diet of apples, coffee and cigarettes – he lost 63 pounds for his role in The Machinist. Although we can’t overlook the dangers Christian put himself through, but at least we can say he is a serious actor who takes pride in his craft. Time will only tell whether 50 Cent will be as convincing.

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The rapper 50 Cent, whose real name is Curtis Jackson, is taking into consideration the idea of making his own range of dietary supplements in a version of vitamin-enriched pills.  But when he mentioned this to the New York Daily News newspaper he didn’t want to reveal very many details.  He quoted,

“Right now, I’m interested in dietary supplements. I’ll be coming up with something very soon.  I can’t tell you what it would be called. I’d be blowing the big launch party!”

50 Cent isn’t the first star to exercise some entrepreneurial know how and try something different, but a diet supplement does seem like an odd one.  The rapper joked with the newspaper and said,

“When my career blew up, I developed the Diddy syndrome. [Sean P.Diddy Combs] As soon as you develop the Diddy syndrome, you put a little more grease in your hair, and soon enough, you’re selling cologne.”

Well, Mr. Jackson is fit, but as for a diet supplement, we’ll just have to see what he comes up with.

Other stars who have exercised their entrepreneurial muscle in the fitness industry is Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow, who is soon opening a gymnasium, and Spice Girl Mel-B, who recently released an exercise DVD.

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