YouTuber Nikocado Avocado is shocking fans with his dramatic weight loss, which he's highlighted in repeated recent posts on his social media pages. The social media star — known for his videos that show him eating large quantities of food — shared in how much weight he'd lost, and revealed his dramatically changed appearance compared to his most recent post from seven months prior. The difference is stark because he hid his weight loss, he told NBC News via email.
"Today, I woke up from a very long dream, and I also woke up having lost 250 pounds off of my body. And just yesterday, people were calling me fat and sick and boring and irrelevant,” Perry, 32, said in Friday's YouTube video titled "Two Steps Ahead." "People are the most messed-up creatures on the entire planet, and yet I’ve still managed to stay two steps ahead of everyone.
The joke’s on you," he continued. It took Perry about two years to lose the weight, he told NBC News. At his heaviest, he weighed 411 pounds.
He now weighs 158. He added that he's 6 feet tall. To hide his weight loss,"I have been strategically posting pre-recorded videos for 2 years, on both YouTube and TikTok," Perry told NBC News.
"I edited the videos so that they would appear recent, allowing me to focus on healing my body behind the scenes. I shaved my head so that people wouldn’t recognize me in public. A handful of fellow YouTubers also helped to keep my secret.
" He said in 2022 subtly marking the beginning of his weight loss.