Madison Rayne formerly known as Ashley Lane and Lexi Lane is somewhat of a legend on the independent circuit. In the ring, she's rather gutsy and a high-energy personality that you have to watch closely because you never know what she's gonna do next. While only 5'3 and listed at 120lbs, she isn't afraid to get her hands dirty. Her Northern Lights Suplexes are nearly flawless, she's willing to go aerial with her Lexi-Canranas, and her finishers in the Inverted Overdrive Rayne Drop and Rayne Check Guillotine Drop are both worthy signatures for her fast-paced style of wrestling.
Madison Rayne's wrestling career debut took place in her state of Ohio as a roster member of the Ohio Championship Wrestling promotion (OCW) in 2005. From there Rayne would take her talents to the Shimmer Women Athletes, Remix Pro Wrestling (RPW), and more before finding a home at TNA. Within her nearly decade and a half career, Rayne's has been the named the Zero 1 USA Women's Champion, the OCW Women's Champion (2x), the TNA Knockouts Champion (5x), a TNA Knockouts Tag Team Champion (2x), and the Queen of the Knockouts in 2014.
Celebrities are no strangers to changing their looks for a role. And in some instances, they have to get pretty extreme. From 500-calorie-a-day diets to drinking pints of ice cream, Actors and actresses know what it takes to change their bodies in preparation for a new film.
Charlize Theron is no stranger to gaining and losing weight for movie roles, as we remember her transformation in Monster. Charlize Theron gained close to 50 pounds for her role as Marlo in Tully. Theron said that “for the first time in my life I was eating so much processed foods and I drank way too much sugar. … I remember having to set my alarm in the middle of the night in order to just maintain the weight.”
You’re used Chris Hemsworth's hulk-like figure in Thor, but In the Heart of the Sea required a totally different diet. The movie required the cast members lose a ton of weight to make their stuck-at-sea plight more believable. Chris Hemsworth said there were days when all he ate was one boiled egg, a couple of crackers, and a celery stick.
Anne Hathaway wanted to get serious for her role in Les Misérables, as she was playing Fantine, a starving prostitute with tuberculosis. So Anne Hathaway went on a diet of “rabbit food” to drop 25 pounds. Hathaway explained her diet was essentially just starving herself, but she didn’t want to give details, as she doesn’t want to encourage anyone to copy her emaciated look. She did note that she “just had to stop eating for a total of 13 days shooting,” however. And at one point, her bones became so frail that she reportedly broke her arm.
Matthew McConaughey's portrayal of Ron Woodruff in Dallas Buyers Club, a man with HIV/AIDS, was spot-on, earning him the title of best actor at the Oscars. But it also required a serious physical transformation. Matthew McConaughey said he lost 38 pounds for the role. During filming, he said he lost a lot of energy from eating so little — and he hit plenty of plateaus along the way. Finally, with a strict diet, he got down to 143 pounds. And while he did cardio to help with the weight loss, he said it was 90% what he was eating and portion size.
Hilary Swank had to put on 23 pounds of pure muscle for her role as a boxer in Million Dollar Baby. The process doesn’t sound easy, however. “I started working out five hours a day — I had to eat 210 grams of protein a day,” Swank said. She also mentioned that she had to consume 60 egg whites per day, and when that proved too difficult, she had to drink them. And to keep the muscle on, she would get up and drink protein shakes in the middle of the night.