Mickie James' success in professional wrestling is wide spread. There isn't a major, modern pro-wrestling platform that she hasn't dominated. Her wrestling style is extremely aggressive and abrasive. James provides fans with a realistic wrestling experience by inflicting as much damage on her oppoents as possible. With a plethora of remixed classic moves like the Mick-A-Rana, Tornado Mickie-DT, Mickie Thesz Press, Mick Kick, and finisher Mickie DDT in her arsenal she's one of the most diverse women wrestlers of her generation.
In 1999, Mickie James began her pro-wrestling career on the independent circuit under the moniker Alexis Laree while also working as a waitress at Olive Garden. In 2002, James appeared on Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) and the following year signed a contract with the WWE where she would stay for a seven year tenure then eventually return to TNA once again. Throughout her tenure with both comapanies, James was a 5x WWE Women's Champion, 1x WWE Divas Champion, and 3x TNA Knockouts Champion making her the first and only woman to hold all three titles in professional wrestling history. James is currently signed to the WWE and works on music in her space time.
Celebrities are no strangers to changing their looks for a role. And in some instances, they have to get pretty extreme. From 500-calorie-a-day diets to drinking pints of ice cream, Actors and actresses know what it takes to change their bodies in preparation for a new film.
Charlize Theron is no stranger to gaining and losing weight for movie roles, as we remember her transformation in Monster. Charlize Theron gained close to 50 pounds for her role as Marlo in Tully. Theron said that “for the first time in my life I was eating so much processed foods and I drank way too much sugar. … I remember having to set my alarm in the middle of the night in order to just maintain the weight.”
You’re used Chris Hemsworth's hulk-like figure in Thor, but In the Heart of the Sea required a totally different diet. The movie required the cast members lose a ton of weight to make their stuck-at-sea plight more believable. Chris Hemsworth said there were days when all he ate was one boiled egg, a couple of crackers, and a celery stick.
Anne Hathaway wanted to get serious for her role in Les Misérables, as she was playing Fantine, a starving prostitute with tuberculosis. So Anne Hathaway went on a diet of “rabbit food” to drop 25 pounds. Hathaway explained her diet was essentially just starving herself, but she didn’t want to give details, as she doesn’t want to encourage anyone to copy her emaciated look. She did note that she “just had to stop eating for a total of 13 days shooting,” however. And at one point, her bones became so frail that she reportedly broke her arm.
Matthew McConaughey's portrayal of Ron Woodruff in Dallas Buyers Club, a man with HIV/AIDS, was spot-on, earning him the title of best actor at the Oscars. But it also required a serious physical transformation. Matthew McConaughey said he lost 38 pounds for the role. During filming, he said he lost a lot of energy from eating so little — and he hit plenty of plateaus along the way. Finally, with a strict diet, he got down to 143 pounds. And while he did cardio to help with the weight loss, he said it was 90% what he was eating and portion size.
Hilary Swank had to put on 23 pounds of pure muscle for her role as a boxer in Million Dollar Baby. The process doesn’t sound easy, however. “I started working out five hours a day — I had to eat 210 grams of protein a day,” Swank said. She also mentioned that she had to consume 60 egg whites per day, and when that proved too difficult, she had to drink them. And to keep the muscle on, she would get up and drink protein shakes in the middle of the night.