Pete Doherty, 45, shows off dramatic weight loss after diabetes diagnosis prompted major diet overhaul
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Pete Doherty showed off his dramatic weight loss on Thursday after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes earlier this year.
The Libertines musician, 45, who had a highly publicised battle with drugs, has given up the 'main poisons' to improve his health after his doctor issued a stark warning.
And the singer showed off the result of his lifestyle change, putting his trimmer frame on full display in a snap to his Instagram.
Pete shared a snap to his followers of himself sat on some steps in a dapper suit, smoking a cigarette.
The singer looked like he'd stepped straight out of a Guy Richie film as he posed in a grey and black hounds tooth suit over a light blue shirt and patterned tie.
The front man of rock band Babyshambles added a flat cap, red socks and black suede shoes to his look and puffed away on a cigarette as he patted his beloved dog Gladys who was sat beside him.
Pete Doherty showed off his dramatic weight loss in an Instagram post on Thursday after being diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes earlier this year
The Libertines musician, 45, who had a highly publicised battle with drugs, has given up the 'main poisons' to improve his health (pictured in 2021)
The singer, who has always been open about his prolific battles with drug addiction, including crack and heroin, has been sober for three years (pictured in May, 2005)
The singer, who has always been open about his prolific battles with drug addiction, including crack cocaine and heroin, has been sober for three years.
But Pete admitted that he then faced a new struggle after enjoying a less than healthy diet consisting of 'cheese and sugar'.
Speaking to The Guardian's Saturday Magazine in February, he said: 'I gave up the main poisons and my health improved.
'Then you get told alcohol and cheese and sugar are just as bad and you were healthier when you were on heroin.'
Pete then went on to call himself 'a bit of a glutton'.
'It's not a joke,' he said. 'I've been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. And at the moment I'm lacking the discipline to tackle cholesterol.'
But it seems Pete has worked on his lack of discipline after receiving some harsh words from his doctor.
The star previously told the Evening Standard that his doctor had told him he had to change his diet immediately.
He told the publication: 'I have seen a liver doctor who says I need to change my diet - too much cheese, too much milk.
'But the cheese is so good, that’s part of the reason I stay here… It’s a cholesterol and diabetes thing now, but there are tablets, it makes a big difference.'
The rocker has previously admitted that his larger figure is the result of tucking in to his guilty pleasure.
Pete admitted that he now faces a new struggle after enjoying a less than healthy diet consisting of 'cheese and sugar'
The rocker has previously admitted that his larger figure is the result of tucking in to his guilty pleasure - including French cheese which he started to enjoy after relocating with his wife Katia de Vida (pictured together August,2023)
In 2021, Pete explained that he had ditched the drugs and was instead indulging on cheese on toast and enjoying long lie ins after staying up for six days straight during his wildest years.
He told The Sun about his new lifestyle: 'I like Comté [a type of French cheese], Comté on toast. My guilty pleasure is sleeping.
'For years and years, I would stay up for five or six days and then I would sleep for 24 hours, so now I love sleep. At the moment I'm quite clean. I stopped taking heroin and ketamine.'
He added: 'I like experimenting, making cocktails with champagne, a bit of rum, orange juice, I'm coming across like a bit of an alcoholic, but I'm not — I like a nice glass of water.'
And Pete's new look is a far cry from his former self where, in 2021, he was spotted munching on a wedge of cheese as he went for a stroll.
Pete relocated to France with his wife Katia de Vidas and his little girl Billie-May several years ago and it seemed Pete was enjoying the change of pace.
He was spotted walking his dog, sporting a grey mop of hair and a fuller physique and clutching a wedge of cheese and enjoying it as a snack.
Pete previously told documentary-maker Louis Theroux he was 'a very sick man' in his Louis Theroux Interviews series.
Due to his former lifestyle, the musician admitted he doesn't see himself living long and said that he thinks 'death is lurking'.
He has been off hard drugs for three years, but said he still drinks and was seen swigging rum and chain smoking in the Theroux interview.
As well as hitting screens with the legendary documentary maker, he is also the subject of a film focused around his demons, which hit cinemas last year.
As well as hitting screens with the legendary documentary maker, he is also the subject of a film focused around his demons, which hit cinemas last year
Pete previously told documentary-maker Louis Theroux he was 'a very sick man' in his Louis Theroux Interviews series and didn't expect to live much longer
Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin shows the extent of his horrific drug addiction, his pained performances at the height of his illness and also contains film of him with his friend and lover Amy Winehouse.
The documentary was shot by his wife Katia de Vidas over a decade, and in upsetting scenes he is seen smoking drugs and writhing in the aftermath.
He is also shown tying a tourniquet around his arm just before injecting heroin, before scenes shoot to him shouting at a crowd of adoring fans: 'On the one hand, thank you, on the other hand... f**k you'.
Speaking in the film, he says: 'Hard drugs entered my life and slowly, slowly, and then very quickly, took control.'
He took heroin for the first time in 2002 when he was just 23, yet the addiction didn't fully take hold until he found himself sweating and sick after a journey to Japan.
