Hollywood star completely unrecognisable as he grows a massive beard after huge weight loss
MOVIE star Jonah Hill looked very different while surfing, having grown a long beard after his dramatic weight loss.
The 21 Jump Street actor showed off a slimmer silhouette as he hit the waves in California.
Jonah, 39, glided on a board with his hands outstretched to keep his balance.
The star looked in the zone with his hair and beard sopping wet.
He has spoken of his fascincation with the sport and finally making it his regular hobby after teaming up with fellow enthusiasts Spike Jonze and Beastie Boys rapper Mike Diamond to form “Surf Jews California”.
“Been terrified to surf my whole life,” Jonah told GQ last year.
“Totally random fear and at the same time always been a secret dream of mine.”
Jonah has seen his weight fluctuate over the years, and the star – who suffers from anxiety attacks – admitted being overweight as a kid “f****d me up”.
“When I was a kid, exercise and diet was framed to me as like, ‘There’s something wrong with how you look,'” he said in Netflix documentary Stutz,
“But never once was exercise and diet propositioned to me in terms of mental health. I just wish that was presented to people differently.”
Jonah said inside he still feels like “a 14-year-old boy who’s very overweight and has acne and feels very undesirable to the world.”
“Inherently, at my core, I’m still this unlovable person,” he added.
“But the work is inching toward [realising] that it’s great to be this person. But that’s still very hard.”
He first landed on our screens in comedies Accepted in 2006, and Superbad in 2007.
He said his 21 Jump Street co-star Channing Tatum encouraged him to hire a nutrionist and personal trainer in 2011.
“I called Channing Tatum and said, ‘Hey, if I ate less and go to a trainer, will I get in better shape?'” Jonah shared on The Tonight Show in August 2016.
“And he said, ‘Yes, you dumb motherf–er, of course you will. It’s the simplest thing in the entire world.”
He managed to shed an impressive 40lbs, but he piled it back on while staring in The Wolf of Wall Street in 2013.
Following the release of War Dogs in 2016 Jonah slimmed down again and has managed to stay in shape ever since.
Jonah appears to have popped the question to his girlfriend, Olivia Millar, who was spotted out wearing an engagement ring and sporting a baby bump.