“From 122 to 70 kilos”: Malik Bentalha reveals his slimming secret, “my drug…”

On Friday, December 27, 2024, Malik Bentalha gave an interview to Le Parisien. After losing a little more than 50 kilos, the 35-year-old comedian, who had just come out of a major depression, revealed his slimming secret.

© BestImage Malik Bentalha has lost a lot of weight.

IN BRIEF

• In 2020, Malik Bentalha experienced a failure with his one-man show on TF1 and went through depression after the failure of his first film as a director.
• Malik Bentalha lost 50 kilos in 18 months thanks to a daily exercise routine and a radical change in diet, including lots of watermelon and salads.
• Find out how Malik Bentalha overcame his personal and professional challenges to come back stronger than ever.

A complicated period… In 2020, the broadcast of Malik Bentalha's one-man show on TF1 was a failure. Two years later, his first film as a director failed to find its audience. As phone calls became increasingly rare, the comedian suffered a major breakdown. Friday, December 27, 2024, it was then that he got back on his feet that he granted an interview to Le Parisien. “Today, with social networks, the advent of Instagram, we are forbidden to feel bad. I locked myself away at all levels, I stayed at home and looked at my cell phone, and ate, I let myself go, I gained weight. And then there was this movie that I really wanted to shoot”, he said.

Émentioning his weight gain, the comedian explained: “At costume fittings, I started lying about my size. I was sabotaging myself. &Three weeks into shooting, I told the director that I couldn't do the film, that I wouldn't be able to watch myself on screen. It was no longer possible…”. Finally, Malik Bentalha lost 50 kilos in 18 months.

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Malik Bentalha: “I started eating salads”

“Either I locked myself in my den, or I decided to get up and come back stronger. It was in April 2023. I started my first sports session. After 10 minutes at 5 km/h, I was hurting everywhere. But I continued step by step”, he confided before specifying that he had lost weight without having surgery. “I work out every morning, and I ate watermelon, lots of watermelon! My drug has always been sugar. I started eating salads”, he added.

On Thursday, February 20, 2020, in the columns of Télé-Loisirs, the comedian had already spoken about his weight problems and had revealed that he had lost 35 kilos. “I feel much better. Going on stage every night, doing promotion… it seems like nothing is very physical and being in good physical condition allows me to not even feel tired. I do sports every day, I run like a hamster in a cage and I do a few push-ups, a few abs too”, he explained.

Malik Bentalha: “I have a real problem with the food”

During this interview, the comedian had specified that he did not drink, that he did not smoke and that he did not do drugs. “But I have a real problem with food, since I was very little”, he had explained before specifying: “It's a drug, I'm a real popcorn and I handle it very badly: if at a given moment, I don't feel good, I'm going to eat! Sometimes if I'm determined, determined to lose weight, I become excessive. It's both ways!”.

On TF1's microphone, Malik Bentalha had already explained : “I am excessive, when I take pleasure and when I decide to do nothing, I do it thoroughly and on the contrary when I decide to get into it, I get into it thoroughly. I am never in the half-measure“.