The piano man is down 50 pounds.
The 72-year-old musician showed off his weight loss during his Nov. 5 show at Madison Square Garden, his first performance back at the iconic NYC venue since February 2020.
Last month, Joel revealed to Howard Stern that his slimmed down figure was due to a back surgery he underwent earlier this year.
“The pain afterwards was so bad I lost my appetite,” the “Uptown Girl” singer explained. “I embraced that. I said, ‘OK, I won’t eat as much,’ and I ate less and less and less and less, and then there was just life aggravation and that tends to, you know, impact your appetite too.”
While he wasn’t expecting to lose weight, Joel did admit he was “happy” with the results, joking, “I had gotten kind of chunky.”
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