Pete Doherty’s Stunning Weight Loss After Health Scare

Pete Doherty looked healthier than ever as he showed off his slim build while playing an arcade game after revealing he was at risk of having his toes amputated earlier this year.

The 46-year-old rocker, who dated Kate Moss for two years, has spent nearly the entirety of his adult life in the spotlight after shooting to stardom with The Libertines in the 2000s. 

But much of his chart-topping success has been overshadowed by turmoil – including crack and heroine addictions which even landed him behind bars for a brief period.

After moving to France with wife Katia de Vidas in 2012, Pete revealed he took up another unhealthy habit – a cheese and wine diet which left him in ‘worse health’ than he was before. 

He candidly admitted in a 2023 interview with Louis Theroux that ‘death’s lurking’ and more recently opened up about his struggles since being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. 

During a gig in Munich this year, Pete shocked supporters by revealing doctors told him ‘he could lose his toes’ if he’s not careful.

A post by his wife Katia on Thursday however, seems to suggest Pete may finally have put his health first.

Taking to her Instagram Stories, Katia, who tied the knot with the singer in 2021, shared a video of The Libertines front man looking in the best shape he has in years while enjoying a guitar game in an arcade. 

Sporting a pair of smart brown shoes, some grey jeans and a plain black T-shirt, Pete seemed healthy as he showed off his skills on the instrument while wearing a characteristically quirky hat. 

After being given the ‘wake-up call’ by doctors in March, the video will likely come as a promising sign to Pete’s supporters.

The rocker went for a check up after noticing sores on his feet had turned black in January.  

‘It was touch and go,’ he told The Times of whether or not he would be able to keep his feet, having lost feeling in them.

Those who suffer from diabetes carry the risk of foot-related complications as high blood sugar levels can damage blood vessels, in turn effecting the flow of blood to feet and legs.

‘Now I allow myself a gin and tonic once a week, but I’ve basically not been drinking and have got my blood sugar to a good level, so my toes are healing,’ he added. 

Pete was pictured wearing normal shoes for the first time in months at The Great Escape Festival last week, where he opened up about his family life. 

As well as welcoming his new daughter Billy Mae with his wife in 2023, Pete is father to son Astile, 21, with singer Lisa Moorish and daughter Aisling, 14, with South African model Lindi Hingston.

Speaking to Rob Beckett about bringing his youngest on tour, Pete revealed: ‘If she didn’t feel comfortable, if she wasn’t happy, I just wouldn’t be able to do it because I don’t I want to not be with her. I’ve missed opportunities in the past to to be a father and I… I don’t want to miss this one, you know, I mean.’ 

He was then asked about Aisling, to which he replied: ‘Yeah, I don’t… I don’t see her at all.’

Pete continued: ‘But I have an older son. He’s 21 now. And we are… we probably speak and see each other more now than we ever have.

‘And even then it’s not that much, but it’s… he’s met Billy May as well.

On the same year Billy May was born, Pete worried supporters after telling Louis Theroux that ‘death’s lurking’ due to the toll that years of drugs and alcohol abuse had on his body. 

He told Theroux: ‘You are looking at a very sick man. I’ve battered it haven’t I, I’ve f*****g caned it. 

‘The heroin and the crack, I surrendered to that and then it was cocaine and the smoking and the alcohol, and now it’s cheese and the saucisson and the sugar in the tea.’

In another interview, this time with The Evening Standard, he revealed he had been told to change his diet immediately. 

‘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 rockstar had previously admitted that he put on weight after over-indulging in his guilty pleasure. 

In 2021, Pete said he had ditched 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.  

Doherty’s childhood was spent in various places across Britain including Dorset and Warwickshire, before forming the Libertines with co-frontman Carl Barat in London.

Their debut album Up The Bracket peaked at 35 in the UK album charts in 2002 but the band’s self-titled follow-up hit number one two years later, featuring singles such as Can’t Stand Me Now and What Became Of The Likely Lads.

Their success was affected by Pete’s wild antics away from the studio however, with the rocker handed a six-month jail term, reduced to two, in 2003 after breaking into his co-frontman’s home and stealing items including a guitar and laptop. 

Doherty was later given a 14-week prison sentence in April 2008 for breaching a probation order following previous drug and driving offences. 

He took heroin for the first time in 2002 when just 23, yet the addiction didn’t fully take hold until he found himself sweating and sick after a journey to Japan.

Doherty has since spent spells in rehab, including a six-week stint at Clouds House in Wiltshire beginning in September 2007. 

Earlier that year Doherty had announced on-stage at the Hackney Empire in east London his engagement to Kate Moss, who sang alongside him that night.

The couple first met two years earlier and were often seen together on London’s social scene during their on-off relationship before reportedly parting in July 2007.