Alec Baldwin Reveals Strict Diet to Lose 25 Lbs. for ‘Blue Jasmine’

Alec Baldwin is reflecting on the ups and downs of his health, including the intense diet he followed to lose weight for his role in Blue Jasmine.

On the April 13 episode of The Baldwins, the actor, 67, is home with wife Hilaria Baldwin and the couple are trying yoga together.

“Alec coming and working out, being a little bit more active, can only help,” Hilaria, 41, said. “He’s taken like exercise, a couple yoga classes with me over the past 13 years, not his thing. We tried to run together a few times. It’s just not his thing.”

“And it’s not just the age difference, it’s just that he’s a theater kid and I’m a jock,” she added.

Hilaria tried sitting on top of Alec to help him stretch while telling him that he “holds trauma” in his shoulders.

Alec then shared that the events of the past year took a significant toll on his mental and physical health, referring to him being charged in the October 2021 shooting death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of Rust. During a July 2024 criminal trial, a judge dismissed the charges against the actor.

“It really, really negatively affected my health, and I wasn’t like that,” he explained. “No matter what I had, my hip hurt, this hurt. I had energy, and now this sucked a lot of the energy out of me. And so a year from now, I want to have put a lot of focus on my health and have that be very different.”

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Alec said he did sports and had an active lifestyle until he was about 40 years old, when work got busy and he started a family.

“So to be married to somebody who’s as physically fit as you, as I’m kind of slipping — my strength and my coordination— it is bizarre,” he said. “I just want to get healthy.”

The actor then reflected on how he achieved his past weight loss for his 2013 film, Blue Jasmine.

“I didn’t have no pasta, no potatoes, no candy, no sugar, and I lost probably 25 pounds,” he recalled. “You see me in the movie and I look trim, comparatively speaking, but I did have the barbecue sauce in my hair.”

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Hilaria said she’s definitely seen a difference in her husband in the past few weeks.

“I’m seeing you more at the gym, I’m seeing you calmer,” she said. “It’s gonna take us a really long time to let this sink and learn how to live again.”

The Baldwins airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on TLC.