Benny Blanco is on a mission to find out whether he can slim down on a pizza-only diet.
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“Hey guys, today’s Day 1 of only eating pizza for five days straight to prove you can lose weight eating literally anything,” Blanco, 38, began a Friday, August 21, video shared via TikTok, saying that he started the experiment weighing 152.5 pounds. “I’m going to eat one pizza a day and lose weight.”
Blanco kicked off the experiment with “one large, thin crust” pie from Domino’s, later noshing on similar sized pizzas for the remainder of the week. By the third day, the music producer was admittedly “tired of pizza” though persisted for the sake of his self-imposed quest.
“It’s Day 5 [and] I don’t even remember who I am as a human being,” he quipped in follow-up footage. “Like, what was life like before pizza? I’ll tell you something: I feel f***ing good [with] a spring in my step.”
At the end of the week, Blanco hit the scale once again.
“You see that? 147.5,” Blanco quipped, reading off the new measurement. “I 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.”
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Blanco, who is promoting his upcoming memoir F*** Failure, 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.)
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Blanco released his first book, Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends, in 2024.
“Cooking is scary,” he exclusively told Us in May 2024 in advance of his debut book release. “Throwing a dinner party … forget about it. But I promise you, Open Wide is gonna be the secret handbook in your back pocket. You can pull [my book] out any time you want to impress some guests.”
Blanco is also known to whip up tasty treats for his wife, actress and pop star Selena Gomez. The couple, who have been together since 2023, said “I do” two years later in September 2025.
“She’s my best friend. The second time we hung out, our second date, I was like, ‘Wait, does she like me?’ I was clueless. From then on, it was easy,” Blanco gushed to Interview magazine in March 2025 about his spouse. “You know when you think you met the right person, you’re like, ‘Oh my god.’ But it feels so different. The second we started hanging out, I was like, ‘This is my wife.’ I was telling my mom, ‘This is the girl I’m going to marry.'”
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This story was originally published August 23, 2026 at 12:03 PM.