Billy Gardell is opening up about his healthy journey and the current struggles he has with eating. The 54-year-old Bob Hearts Abishola actor lost over 150 pounds in the last few years with the help of bariatric surgery.
In a previous interview, Billy revealed that he weighed 370 pounds about a decade ago and he was down to about 205 to 210 pounds in April 2023.
That means he lost between 160 and 165 pounds! “I went from a young Jackie Gleason to an old Paul Newman,” Billy said on Live with Kelly and Mark this week. Keep reading to find out more… “The last three years, I had to make some changes because when COVID hit, in the words of Richard Pryor, I went in the house.
I had a lot of the dangerous [conditions]. When they made that list of, you know, overweight. Type 2 diabetes. Smoker. Asthma.