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John Goodman has opened up about his weight loss journey.
“My body is too messy from all this weight,” he said.
Goodman underwent stomach surgery and is now focused on building strength while adapting to his changed body.
Actor John Goodman talks about his experience following a dramatic 200-pound weight loss. The 74-year-old explained that he was still “getting used to” his new body.
In fact, following his weight loss, he almost turned down his role in Fair Gemstones.
“I thought I was going to have to be naked in it and I said, ‘I don’t know. My body is too messed up from losing all this weight,'” Goodman explained on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast.
John Goodman in September 2026.
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“I’m still trying to get used to my face,” he added. “It’s weird. I think of myself as a path forward, and then I’m like, ‘Oh, wow!'”
“It’s strange. It’s fun to get used to,” he muses. “There are a lot of things I’m getting used to.”
In another recent interview, Goodman opened up about how he gained weight due to alcohol addiction in the 2000s. “I would lose 60 pounds in one summer and gain it all back. 70 pounds, 80 pounds,” Goodman said. The New Yorker. “And it got tiring.”
John Goodman in The Conners.
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Although Goodman became sober in 2007, he continued to struggle with eating healthily. As he put it, he was “eating alcoholic” and eventually reached about 400 pounds. “I took steps to not have to do that again,” Goodman continued.
Goodman underwent stomach surgery and is now adjusting to his new body.
“Basically it’s about developing the core, the balance, the strength training, stuff like that, so you don’t fall, which I did as soon as I got back to London after the Christmas break,” Goodman explained. “I went down parallel to the ground, onto my hip, and fractured it.”
John Goodman in 2006.
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