Jaden Smith is in great physical shape now – but it was only a few years ago his parents were so concerned about his health that they staged an intervention. The 26-year-old son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith revealed in 2019 that they were forced to sit Jaden down and express their concerns after he began "wasting away". At the time, Jaden was vegan and according to his parents, he "wasn't getting the nutrients" through his diet to maintain a healthy weight.
"Will and I had a bit of an intervention with Jaden because he's a vegan now, but we realized he wasn't getting enough protein," Jada said on an episode of Red Table Talk at the time. "So, he was wasting away," she added. "He just looked drained.
He was depleted, he wasn't getting the nutrients." Will added: "He had dark circles under his eyes. There was even a little grayness to his skin, and we got really nervous.
" After Will complimented his son and told him, "You definitely look better now", Jaden revealed he had since switched to a vegetarian diet. Jaden admitted his rapid weight loss was a result of him barely eating three meals a day during that period. "I've tried to eat vegan meals.
I'll go vegan for a week or so, but for the past year I've been vegetarian," he told his family. "I was just eating, like, two meals a day, you know. And maybe one.
Maybe just that one big meal and I'm like, 'Oh, you know, I didn't get around to it.'" The intervention left a lasting impression on Jaden as he later began worki.
