’80s stars who look very different after huge weight loss — see them then and now

Where would we be without the culture-shifting tack ‘I’m Every Woman’? Chaka Khan even got a soundtrack cameo in Bridget Jones’ Diary, proving that the singer’s feel-good tunes are still giving us all a confidence boost today.

Chaka Khan noticeably lost some weight in 2012 and explained on The Wendy Williams Show the same year that the year prior she’d been on a two-month liquid diet. The star singer is also a long-time vegan, with the occasional exception made for “a little baked fish”.

Boy George is best-known for ’80s Culture Club hits like ‘Karma Chameleon’ and ‘Time (Clock of the Heart)’. The singer has been open about his cosmetic surgery in memoir Karma: My Autobiography.

Following three hair transplants between 2015 and 2018, George underwent a tummy tuck which he called “the most painful thing” he’d ever done. Following the surgery, he started taking Ozempic in 2022 but later switched to Mounjaro.

Singer Alison Moyet took a break from the stage in the ’90s, returning to the industry with an album release in 2002. In 2013, she explained that her weight loss journey was due to health reasons.

Alison changed from a size 22 to a size 10 but says she’s gone “too far”. She told The Mirror in 2013: “Personally I think women look better with a bit of chub on them. I’ve lost too much weight and I’m currently working very hard on getting fatter again.”

Ghost star Whoopi Goldberg has been characterfully honest and compassionate in speaking about weight loss – her own and wider pressures. She told The View that Mounjaro had played a part in her weight loss, explaining: I will tell you, I weighed almost 300 lbs. when I made Till.” 

She added: “Maybe the key is to stop judging everybody. My weight has come and gone and up and down, but it’s never been an issue for me because I don’t listen to what other people say about me.”

’80s and ’90s star of Roseanne, John Goodman started losing weight in 2007 and has lost 200 lbs. with the help of a healthy diet and exercise routine.

He’s since joked to AARP about the transformation, saying: “I don’t want to be an example to anybody when the weight comes thundering back on — when I start eating Crisco out of the can with a spoon and a side of confectioner’s sugar.”