“They can’t hang.”Īs a teenager in Flushing, Queens, Bronson had been fascinated with bodybuilding. “People come work out with us, they see us on Instagram and it’s like two fat guys, right? Me and Action - ‘Hey, I think I can do that workout, easy,’” Mr. In late May, after he’d lost 60 pounds, Bronson reached out to Dave Paladino, the owner of Impact Zone, a fitness complex in Norwood, N.J., who had been training his friend, the former Yankees pitcher C. Salazar turned him on to green juice, which he used as meal replacements. He graduated to jogging and other exercises, building up stamina. “All you think about is, ‘Am I going to die at night when I go to sleep?’” he said.īronson jump-started his new life last March with walking, taking long strolls over the Williamsburg Bridge in the spring sunshine. He had signed a contract to write a self-help book - “_ It, I’ll Start Tomorrow,” due out in April - and realized he was in no position to give advice. Everyday tasks - from using the bathroom to simply breathing - became onerous indignities. His familiar uniform of 3XL and 4XL Carhartt T-shirts began to get tight. He developed symptoms of asthma and eczema. Toward the end of 2019, he tried to purchase life insurance - after a checkup, he was denied. He also began to worry about the durability of his body. Bronson has two teenage children from an earlier relationship.) “That really hurt.” (Their son, Benicio, was born in November, 2019. You want to leave us now?’” Bronson recalled. “She’s like, ‘What are you doing? I’m pregnant. Partners of several years, they were beginning to plan a family. That relentlessness, he said, was the same as someone doing “heroin every day, the same as coked-out binges weeks at a time. His omnivorousness, which was central to how he presented himself on camera, became an albatross.Įating that way “became comfortable, to where it wasn’t just for the show,” he said, his words punctuated by deep coughs after taking hits of solventless hash oil from an extravagantly expensive glass contraption by the Japanese maker Disk Glass. He ate with little regard for his own health.
At home, Bronson ordered takeout indiscriminately. “You can’t really say no,” Bronson said.īut consumption without impediment began to take its toll, physically and emotionally. Bottura drove to his house to get a pair of sunglasses for his guest, and even fed him from his hands. 1 on the annual list of the World 50 Best Restaurants, Bronson was at the restaurant in Modena, Italy, with its chef, Massimo Bottura.
In 2016, right after Osteria Francescana landed at No. For chefs with a sense of adventure and edge, a visit by Bronson was an excuse for bacchanal, and validation of something edgier than mere culinary skill, presenting restaurants as sites of unimpeachable cool. His enthusiasm was gasoline for the show, and contagious, catapulting him into the food-celebrity ecosystem. “In a chef’s eyes, when you make food and you watch the person eat it and you watch their eyes roll back, it’s like they get off.” “They love to bombard you with food, they love that you love food,” he said. It’s not right for them, for their family. Like, I’m making it seem like it’s OK,” Bronson, 37, said. “There’s dudes that I know that are just fat because it’s OK with me.
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The same gusto and all-consuming fixation he has long brought to eating, Bronson now brings to his regimen: constant workouts, Spartan meals and just the barest helpings of rich food, when his TV work demands it. “I felt good, but I knew I wasn’t in a good place. “I was eating like I was a child, like I was a growing boy, anything in sight,” he said at the work/play studio he maintains in an industrial building in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, he has lost about 130 pounds, from a high of around 375. Shredding on a bodyboard is only one part of the multifront approach that Bronson - whose nonstage name is Ariyan Arslani - has been deploying on a quest to rescue his future from his past as a culinary roué.
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