Last October 23, the actor Juan Echanove attended an important event: the Ópera XXI Awards, held at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. That night, Echanove received the Stage Direction Award for his work in the production ‘Pan y toros’.
Happy, he posed at the photocall accompanied by his wife, the gastronomy expert Cuchita Lluch, and there were not a few who detected a great physical change in the actor and director.
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With four decades of career behind them, we have seen how Echanove has gained and lost weight over the years. But perhaps the most radical physical change in him has taken place now. However, this transformation began four years ago.
He himself told it in an interview given to the newspaper ABC, in which he explained that after confinement he carried out a change in his diet and started a training routine. “I have lost 20 kilos. To lose weight I have eaten just enough, I have been very active and I have an absolute relationship with the scale, which is what rules,” he said. He also added that he has been fighting against “my weight curve” all his life. This time, that effort appears to be paying off.
Echanove’s case is not the only one that we have been able to verify in 2024. Other well-known faces from our country and outside our borders have surprised us with a radical physical transformation. A good example of this is that of the famous streamer Ibai Llanos.
After winning the Kings World Cup in Mexico, the content creator was challenged to make a physical change. Llanos has taken this seriously and has been focusing his content on social networks since last June on his change of life and routines to achieve his goal. Healthy eating, exercise and discipline are your weapons to achieve this.
He started the challenge when he weighed 157 kilos. He has already managed to lose more than 30 kilos. Llanos’ desire is to weigh 100 kilos.
Outside our borders there are also celebrities who have undergone an obvious physical transformation. This is the case of actress Kathy Bates, who He has managed to lose 45 kilos in the last seven years.
Bates was one of those attending the Emmy gala last September and her physical change did not go unnoticed. On the carpet she posed in an Armani dress, showing off unprecedented thinness. She later confessed in People magazine that she was able to wear a dress of that size “for the first time in a long time.”
At 76 years old, the actress confessed that she was excited with a friend when she did the clothing fitting to choose her Emmys look, because “everything looked exquisite.” He added that His weight loss made him feel “very good” on the mat and that she managed to be “relaxed and prepared” to pose safely in the spotlight.
Kathy Bates posing on the carpet at the Emmy Awards. (EFE / ALLISON DINNER)
The American presenter Oprah Winfrey is another of the famous people who wears all his life fighting against his weightas she herself has confessed. In recent times, his physical change has been very evident. Retired from television since 2011, Winfrey makes occasional appearances, such as the one she did to interview Prince Harry and Meghan Markle or the one she starred in last March to present a special program on weight loss which generated a lot of controversy.
In the space, titled ‘Shame, Blame and the Weight Loss Revolution’, broadcast on ABC, Winfrey addressed your own problems with obesitylaunching a speech that was not without controversy, since he supported the use of drugs to lose weight. Years ago, she herself had criticized the use of these drugs, which she saw as “the easy way out.” But now she has become a great defender of them.
The presenter explained that “throughout my life I never dreamed that we would talk about medications that would give hope to people who, like me, have been fighting for years against being overweight or obese. I bring up this conversation with the hope that we can begin to free ourselves of stigma, shame and judgment, which Let’s stop shaming other people for being overweight. or by how they choose to lose or not lose weight. And, most importantly, let’s stop shaming ourselves.”
“The fact that there is a medically approved recipe for controlling weight and staying healthier, in my day, feels like a relief, like redemption, like a gift, and not something to hide behind and be ridiculed again.” , he declared a few days ago in People magazine.
The latest example of notable physical changes can be seen in the actress Rebel Wilson, who rose to fame in 2011 with the film ‘Bridesmaids’.
Wilson’s physique has attracted attention throughout his career for breaking out of Hollywood’s normative weight. That ended up becoming a draw for directors and screenwriters and one of their weapons to get roles. Herself She confessed that although she always wanted to lose weight, her representatives did not allow her to do so.
It was in 2020 when Rebel Wilson began a physical transformation to reach a healthier weight. She herself explained the reasons to her fans: “In addition to the fact that I turned 40 and knew that I wasn’t going to have as much work and could have a little more time, I also planned to freeze my eggs. I was researching fertility issues and the doctors told me: ‘You would have a better chance if you changed to healthier habits.’”
The actress achieved her goal and her daughter Royce Lillian was born on November 7, 2022.
To lose weight, Wilson combined routine exercise with healthy eating. At the end of 2020, her more than 110 kilos became 75 kilos and for now, the actress is managing to maintain it.
Last October 23, the actor Juan Echanove attended an important event: the Ópera XXI Awards, held at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid. That night, Echanove received the Stage Direction Award for his work in the production ‘Pan y toros’.
