Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez turned a five-day pizza experiment into a measurable result: Blanco said he lost 4.7 pounds after eating only pizza. The music producer documented the challenge on Instagram, then stepped on the scale at 147.5 pounds after starting at 152.2.
152.2 pounds to 147.5
152.2 pounds was Blanco’s starting weight, and 147.5 pounds was where he finished after five days. He said the result was real enough to make the experiment feel less like a stunt and more like a weird piece of food arithmetic: one large thin-crust Domino's pizza each day, then a final weigh-in that showed 4.7 pounds gone.
5 days is a short run for any eating plan, which is why this one drew attention. Blanco has already built a public food identity around Open Wide: A Cookbook for Friends, released in 2024, so the pizza challenge fit the larger image of a creator who treats food as part of the entertainment.
Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles
During a date night at the Sunset Tower Hotel in Los Angeles, Blanco kept the challenge going by bringing his pizza while Selena Gomez ate a regular dinner. That detail makes the stunt more than a private diet log; it shows the experiment traveling with him into a public setting, where the contrast was hard to miss.
By day three, Blanco had already said, “I hate my life,” but he kept eating pizza through day five anyway. On the fifth day, he said, “I don’t even remember myself as a human being” and, “Like, what was life before pizza?” before adding, “f–king good” after the final weigh-in. The contradiction is the story: the complaint came first, the weight loss came anyway.
F–k Failure on September 15
September 15 is the next concrete marker in Blanco’s calendar, when F–k Failure was scheduled for release. He also discussed Gomez’s eating habits in a conversation with Gwyneth Paltrow, saying she enjoyed burgers and fries and disliked many fruits and vegetables, which keeps the story tied to the food-first persona he has built in public.
The clean read is simple: this was not a serious nutrition plan, but it did produce a specific result Blanco was willing to state on camera. Whether the 4.7-pound drop came from the pizza-only routine itself or from other factors is the unanswered part, and that is exactly where the experiment stops and the curiosity starts.
