The `In Da Club` rapper - who shed an enormous amount of weight in just nine weeks for his part in `Things Fall Apart` - has found it easy to put the weight back on and has been gorging himself on high calorie foods.

He explained: "It`s the art of eating. The no complex route. It seems everything that is fun is no good for you. I had different things I don`t usually have in my diet to put the weight back."

He continued: "I`m now 210lbs. I was a little fat boy, but I`m back at the gym. At my maximum weight I was 214."

In the movie, 50 Cent - real name Curtis Jackson - plays an American football player diagnosed with cancer and he slashed his weight from 214 pounds to an astonishing 160 with a liquid diet and three-hour-a-day treadmill walks for the role.

Shocking pictures posted on his website were captioned with the details of his weight loss.

The caption read: "50 Cent lost a lot of weight for his upcoming movie `Things Fall Apart`. In the movie 50 Cent plays a football player diagnosed with cancer.

The `Candy Shop` hitmaker can`t wait until the movie comes out because he thinks his performance is fantastic.

He said: "I think the film project is going to be great, not just the transformation and the weight loss but my performance in itself. I`m excited to see it."
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