Barkley is the newest spokesperson for Weight Watchers, and commercials featuring the former pro athlete’s weight loss will be flooding the small screen during the holidays.
The now used-to-be “round mound of rebound” and TNT basketball commentator said that after retiring from the league in 2000, he packed on 100 pounds to his 6’ ft. 6” frame, ballooning to 350 pounds.
Barkley said he got his ‘wake up call’ when he paid a trip to the doctor.
“The doctor said, ‘Hey, dude, if you don’t lost some weight, you’re either going to get diabetes, have a stroke or drop dead. It’s either A, B, or C,” Barkley told USA Today.
Weight Watchers approached him, and Barkley has signed on for the organization’s newest campaign entitled “Lose Like a Man.”
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