Benny Blanco binged on pizza for five days straight in an unusual self-experiment, documenting the stunt in a video shared on TikTok and Instagram. The 38-year-old music producer, who is married to Selena Gomez, set out to prove that weight can be lost "eating literally anything," choosing a daily large thin crust order from Domino's Pizza for the task.
Blanco weighed 152.2 pounds at the start of the trial. By the end of the roughly week-long experiment, he had dropped to 147.5 pounds.
"I just lost 4.7 pounds eating pizza. Nothing matters, do whatever you want," he declared.
Gomez makes two cameos
Gomez, 34, appeared twice in the video, including during a dimly lit date night and again as she embraced Blanco while he filmed himself. Blanco also used the video to plug his self-help memoir, "F**k Failure," which is due out in September.
Blanco and Gomez, who is known for her role in Hulu's "Only Murders in the Building," married after dating for two years. Blanco has built a career producing hits for artists including Justin Bieber and Ed Sheeran.
Blanco previously compared Gomez's diet to a child's
The pizza stunt follows comments Blanco made earlier this year during a live recording of Gwyneth Paltrow's Good Podcast, where he told the audience that Gomez "has the diet of a five-year-old."
He cited burgers and fries as two of her favorites and said she also favors fast food for breakfast. "This morning I walked in and she was eating Jack in the Box at 6:45 in the morning," he said at the time.
Blanco also said Gomez "doesn't really like fruits or vegetables," adding that when she orders Goop's Chinese chicken salad, she picks out everything on top and leaves the lettuce and greens for him.
A history of eating habits in the spotlight
Despite hosting her own cooking series on Netflix, Gomez has long been described as a less-than-stellar cook with poor eating habits. She was hospitalized in 2011 for malnourishment tied to her diet.
What's next for the couple
Earlier this year, Gomez and Blanco spent time apart while she filmed the latest season of "Only Murders in the Building" on location in London. Gomez wrote "I miss my love" in a May Instagram post alongside a throwback photo of the pair.
They reunited on July 3 to attend the wedding of Gomez's close friend Taylor Swift to Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden. Blanco, who has a fear of flying, then sailed overseas to be with Gomez for her July 22 birthday.
Blanco is now promoting both his upcoming memoir and his Spanish-language album, "Hermoso," which was released on August 14.
