Kevin Smith Shares Photos Of His Incredible Weight-Loss Transformation

Eileen Reslen
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Photo credit: @thatkevinsmith - Getty Images
Photo credit: @thatkevinsmith - Getty Images

From Men's Health

Kevin Smith is celebrating his 51-pound weight loss after suffering a near fatal heart attack earlier this year, the director revealed on Instagram Sunday.

On February 25, Smith was rushed to the hospital after a standup show.

"After the first show this evening, I had a massive heart attack. The Doctor who saved my life told me I had 100% blockage of my LAD artery (aka “the Widow-Maker”)," he wrote on Instagram in February. "If I hadn’t canceled show 2 to go to the hospital, I would’ve died tonight. But for now, I’m still above ground!"

Photo credit: Jason LaVeris - Getty Images
Photo credit: Jason LaVeris - Getty Images

At the time, Smith weighed 256 pounds. He'd already lost about 80 pounds in the 10 years leading up to his cardiac arrest, Entertainment Tonight reports. But, according to the 48-year-old filmmaker, doctors told him a week after the heart attack, "The best thing you can do for yourself now is to lose 50 pounds."

Six months later, Smith has reached his goal and now weighs 205 pounds. He attributes much of his weight loss to his partnership with Weight Watchers, Penn Jillette's book Presto!, and a solely plant-based foods diet, which he said was difficult because he "hates vegetables."

This @weightwatchers Ambassador is thrilled to announce that I’VE LOST 51 POUNDS! Six months ago from right now, I was in the hospital recovering from a heart attack I’d had the night before. When I went to my Doctor a week later, she told me “The best thing you can do for yourself now is to lose 50 pounds.” Half a year later, I can report that I followed Doctor’s orders: I started at 256 and now I weigh 205. This is the lightest I’ve been since high school! My hope now is I can slowly lose another 10 with #weightwatchers and get down to my birth weight of 195! But for now, I’m ecstatic to have reached this chunky milestone! I wanna thank #pennjillette for his book #presto, @raycronise for getting me started with his potato famine, and the good folks at #weightwatchers for their app-based program that made it easy to keep track of and control my eating! And I also wanna thank my kid @harleyquinnsmith - the little vegan astronaut who explored this meatless/milkless galaxy ahead of me, leading by example. Since I never wanted to see the inside of a hospital ever again, I simply copied the Kid. So this wasn’t a diet: these results came from a total lifestyle change of eating solely plant-based foods (which is tough because I hate vegetables). But mostly, I wanna thank all of you as well - for the kind and encouraging words along the way. Never underestimate the power of positive feedback: you folks telling me I looked better or healthier helped me stick with it. An encouraging word can really make a difference in someone’s life and your compliments kept me going! And just look where I went! #KevinSmith #WWambassador #WWFreestyle #WWFamily #WWBros #weightlosstransformation #weightloss #WWCommunity #ad *People following the Weight Watchers program can expect to lose 1-2lbs per week.

A post shared by Kevin Smith (@thatkevinsmith) on Aug 26, 2018 at 12:56pm PDT

"This is the lightest I’ve been since high school! My hope now is I can slowly lose another 10 with #weightwatchers and get down to my birth weight of 195!," Smith joked in an Instagram post. "But for now, I’m ecstatic to have reached this chunky milestone!"

Smith has been documenting his weight-loss journey on social media since his health scare. In June, he posted an update about his then 43-pound weight loss.

"At the absolute adult thinnest I’ve been since I finished high school!," he wrote. "And while I may look a little better, I FEEL f-cking fantastic!"


In June, Smith shared with Entertainment Tonight how almost losing his life changed his perspective on his eating habits.

"I just assumed I'd be fat my whole life and I'd never see my high school weight again or any of those things," he said. "But after the heart attack, suddenly I was like, all right, I never want to be back in that room again with someone going up my groin to get to my heart through my femoral artery, telling me that there is a 20 percent chance that I will live, and 80 percent chance I'll die."

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