{"id":259168,"date":"2026-08-23T16:03:47","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/selena-gomezs-husband-benny-blanco-shares-how-much-weight-he-lost-after-only-eating-pizza-in-a-week\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T16:03:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T16:03:47","slug":"selena-gomezs-husband-benny-blanco-shares-how-much-weight-he-lost-after-only-eating-pizza-in-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/selena-gomezs-husband-benny-blanco-shares-how-much-weight-he-lost-after-only-eating-pizza-in-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez\u2019s Husband Benny Blanco Shares How Much Weight He Lost After Only Eating Pizza in a Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/goto?url=CAESbAHrOzAVd9yS4jxzaTUvQSSqg5CEcE3d1TvGVFWDN0Oo-EJKIOFo9O7C_43ViyZvJuHFo6GwxX6B0Wg9tn4X83-jjl7MbwsIjAMWo5b4C4m0383rS23gAaSlsk4eMATqSkzOaJeWVRNv7X_a1Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Benny Blanco <\/b><\/a>is on a mission to find out whether he can slim down on a pizza-only diet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cHey guys, today\u2019s Day 1 of only eating pizza for five days straight to prove you can lose weight eating literally anything,\u201d Blanco, 38, began a Friday, August 21, video shared via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itsbennyblanco\/video\/7676175358655221023?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\">TikTok<\/span><\/a>, saying that he started the experiment weighing 152.5 pounds. \u201cI\u2019m going to eat one pizza a day and lose weight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Blanco kicked off the experiment with \u201cone large, thin crust\u201d pie from Domino\u2019s, later noshing on similar sized pizzas for the remainder of the week. By the third day, the music producer was admittedly \u201ctired of pizza\u201d though persisted for the sake of his self-imposed quest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIt\u2019s Day 5 [and] I don\u2019t even remember who I am as a human being,\u201d he quipped in follow-up footage. \u201cLike, what was life like before pizza? I\u2019ll tell you something: I feel f***ing good [with] a spring in my step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">At the end of the week, Blanco hit the scale once again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cYou see that? 147.5,\u201d Blanco quipped, reading off the new measurement. \u201cI just lost 4.7 pounds in five days, eating only pizza. Nothing matters, you can do whatever you want. F*** failure, f*** everything, get my book right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Blanco, who is promoting his upcoming memoir <i>F*** Failure<\/i>, did not publicly share whether he did anything else to aid his apparent weight loss. (Doctors often recommend a balanced diet coupled with plenty of exercise.)<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tiktok-embed\" cite=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itsbennyblanco\/video\/7676175358655221023\" data-video-id=\"7676175358655221023\" data-embed-from=\"oembed\" style=\"max-width:605px; min-width:325px;\">\n<section> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"@itsbennyblanco\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itsbennyblanco?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">@itsbennyblanco<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>can i lose weight if i only eat pizza? <\/p>\n<p> <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - benny blanco\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7676175323776092959?refer=embed\" rel=\"noopener\">\u266c original sound \u2013 benny blanco<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Blanco released his first book, <i>Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends,<\/i> in 2024.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cCooking is scary,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/food\/news\/benny-blanco-shares-his-crowd-pleasing-caprese-salad-recipe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">exclusively told <i>Us <\/i>in May 2024<\/a> in advance of his debut book release. \u201cThrowing a dinner party \u2026 forget about it. But I promise you, <i>Open Wide<\/i> is gonna be the secret handbook in your back pocket. You can pull [my book] out any time you want to impress some guests.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Blanco is also known to whip up tasty treats for his wife, actress and pop star <b>Selena Gomez<i>. <\/i><\/b>The couple, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/news\/selena-gomez-and-benny-blancos-relationship-timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">who have been together since 2023<\/a>, said \u201cI do\u201d two years later in September 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cShe\u2019s my best friend. The second time we hung out, our second date, I was like, \u2018Wait, does she like me?\u2019 I was clueless. From then on, it was easy,\u201d Blanco gushed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/benny-blanco-and-selena-gomez-against-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>Interview<\/i><\/span><\/a> magazine in March 2025 about his spouse. \u201cYou know when you think you met the right person, you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh my god.\u2019 But it feels so different. The second we started hanging out, I was like, \u2018This is my wife.\u2019 I was telling my mom, \u2018This is the girl I\u2019m going to marry.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-body\/news\/benny-blanco-lost-nearly-5-lbs-after-only-eating-pizza-for-week\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benny Blanco is on a mission to find out whether he can slim down on a pizza-only diet. \u201cHey guys, today\u2019s Day 1 of only eating pizza for five days straight to prove you can lose weight eating literally anything,\u201d Blanco, 38, began a Friday, August 21, video shared via TikTok, saying that he started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259168","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrity"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}