Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver‘s son Christopher is exhibiting up and exhibiting off after his 30-pound weight reduction journey.
The 27-year-old confirmed off his new physique whereas scrolling via his telephone in photographs shared by his sister Katherine through Instagram Friday, August 22. Katherine, 35, shared a sequence of photographs of a household journey to Cape Cod.
The snaps additionally included three of Shriver, who was all smiles as she loved a ship journey together with her youngsters and grandchildren. “An ideal day ☀️🌊,” Katherine captioned the publish.
Christopher opened up in regards to the strategy of shedding weight whereas talking on a panel on the inaugural Beacher Vitality Completely happy & Wholesome Summit in Los Angeles on Might 10. He admitted, “It was an enormous course of.”
“I began in 2019 once I was dwelling in Australia,” Christopher continued. “I used to be on this large journey. I made it an enormous [deal] like, ‘Oh, I'm going to exit and do all these things, be in Australia,' and I simply noticed how a lot my weight was prohibiting me from doing the on a regular basis actions.”
A kind of actions was skydiving, which he recalled being “excited” to check out. Sadly, he wasn't in a position to. “I used to be like, ‘I wish to go skydiving.' And my pals have been like, ‘Yeah, no shot,'” he defined. “I used to be like, ‘Yeah, I can't skydive.'”

Christopher Schwarzenegger, Christina Schwarzenegger, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Katherine Schwarzenegger Kevin Winter/Getty Photographs
Christopher additionally mentioned that he “tried all the things” over time to shed weight, however nothing had actually labored within the long-term. “I used to be doing meal supply issues in highschool, and I keep in mind feeling like a weirdo once I was bringing bizarre lunches to high school,” he continued. “It's not an in a single day factor, nevertheless it took a variety of trial and error. And even nonetheless to today … once you're saying, ‘oh, before-and-after photographs' … I don't really feel like I'm an ‘after' but. I don't really feel like I'm on the level.”
It turned out that giving up bread through the Catholic vacation Lent in 2025 is what lastly did the trick. “I used to be like, ‘Effectively, if I'm giving up bread, I'd as nicely simply take the chance and I'm Catholic boy, so I'm not going to interrupt it,'” he defined. “And that was my one rule. I used to be like, ‘I'm not going to interrupt Lent.' And so, I misplaced 30 kilos simply via that.”
Christopher is the youngest of Arnold, 77, and ex-wife Shriver's 4 youngsters. The household additionally contains Katherine, 35, Christina, 34, and Patrick, 31. Arnold additionally shares son Joseph, 27, with Mildred Patricia Baena.
