Below Deck's Dylan Pierre De Villiers Details Weight Loss Transformation: Photos

New deckhanda data-entity-href="/node/1186890" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Dylan Pierre De Villiers" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="b1dffced-a3fc-47f2-a1e9-952773de2b12" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/dylan-pierre-de-villiers" title="Dylan Pierre De Villiers"Dylan Pierre De Villiers/a is turning heads on the yacht./p pIn Season 11, Episode 8 ofa data-entity-href="/node/921591" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Below Deck" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="00a8f9fb-1ecc-498e-999c-9b0eb378180e" href="https://www.bravotv.com/below-deck" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Below Deck"emBelow Deck/em/a, the a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/who-is-dylan-pierre-de-villiers-below-deck-season-11" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/who-is-dylan-pierre-de-villiers-below-deck-season-11" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/who-is-dylan-pierre-de-villiers-below-deck-season-11" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"23-year-old /aopened up to St. David deckhand a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/sunny-marquis" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/sunny-marquis" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/cast/sunny-marquis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Sunny Marquis/a about his work ethic, revealing he's "really hard" on himself because he used to be overweight as a kid./p p"If you give me a choice between McDonalds or like a salad with broccoli, I'll take the salad with broccoli," he told her as they cleaned the yacht, "because I used to be really fat."/p pThe deckhand shared that he was motivated to lose weight after years of being "bullied," instilling in him the determination necessary to become a yachtie. "I decided that it was either going to break me or make me," he explained./p h2Dylan Pierre De Villiers' Weight Loss Transformation/h2 pGrowing up in Cape Town, South Africa, Dylan said, "I was always bullied for being not attractive, overweight. I was very insecure in so many ways."/p pstrongHere's what you missed on Bravo/strong:/p pa data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/what-happened-to-cat-baugh-on-below-deck-season-11" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/what-happened-to-cat-baugh-on-below-deck-season-11" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/what-happened-to-cat-baugh-on-below-deck-season-11" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongWhat Happened to Cat Baugh on Below Deck Season 11?/strong/a/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/watch-the-below-deck-season-11-midseason-trailer" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/watch-the-below-deck-season-11-midseason-trailer" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/watch-the-below-deck-season-11-midseason-trailer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Get a Glimpse at the Stew Replacing Cat Baugh in the Below Deck Midseason Trailer: "I'm in Trouble"/a/strong/p pstronga data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/where-is-grenada-details-on-below-deck-season-11-location" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/where-is-grenada-details-on-below-deck-season-11-location" href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/where-is-grenada-details-on-below-deck-season-11-location" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Where Is Grenada? Everything You Need To Know About The Below Deck Season 11 Location/a/strong/p pEventually, Dylan resolved to improve his a data-entity-href="https://www.bravotv.com/all/fitness" data-entity-title="https://www.bravotv.com/all/fitness" href="https://www.bravotv.com/all/fitness" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"fitness/a and have "a better body than all of them." In the process, he lost his "proper fat ass" and achieved his "proudest accomplishment": a double chest bump./p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="5b9cf062-21f3-4d23-9f08-b06e94fd2b7a" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/below-decks-dylan-pierre-de-villier-01.jpg?itok=1wTq_4_r" width="862" height="575" alt="Dylan Pierre De Villier wearing a cap and holding a puppy as a young boy" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Dylan Pierre De Villier as a younger boy on Below Deck Season 11 Episode 8. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pIn honor of this impressive move, he said that he named his pecs James and Barry./p pHis hard work has clearly paid off, with Chief Stew a data-entity-href="/taxonomy/term/19293" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Fraser Olender" data-entity-type="taxonomy_term" data-entity-uuid="d1bc5a98-12fd-4d0f-b006-0f6bc82840b6" href="https://www.bravotv.com/all/fraser-olender" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Fraser Olender"Fraser Olender/a and deckhands a data-entity-href="/taxonomy/term/18966" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Ben Willoughby" data-entity-type="taxonomy_term" data-entity-uuid="72b9f4cd-4043-477c-a9cd-30b4f8bd10eb" href="https://www.bravotv.com/all/ben-willoughby" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Ben Willoughby"Ben Willoughby/a and a data-entity-href="/node/1183874" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Kyle Stillie" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="5d15af56-90b6-4c34-aea0-a10598d66708" href="https://www.bravotv.com/people/kyle-stillie" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Kyle Stillie"Kyle Stillie/a remarking that he's in fantastic shape./p p"Dylan is undoubtedly good looking," Fraser declared./p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="384bf8a9-b473-4859-8ce8-4c2d46ca49e7" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/below-decks-dylan-pierre-de-villier-02.jpg?itok=ZspKGLPM" width="862" height="575" alt="Dylan Pierre De Villier wearing a cap as a young boy" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Dylan Pierre De Villier as a younger boy on Below Deck Season 11 Episode 8. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div pEven the women are into Dylan, particularly Sunny. When she first saw the new deckhand, she admitted, "Wow, my jaw is on the floor."/p div data-embed-button="media" data-entity-embed-display="view_mode:media.embed" data-entity-embed-display-settings="[]" data-entity-type="media" data-entity-uuid="b333271a-ba8e-4d94-95ed-31fdda7292aa" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"div class="media__image" style="max-width:862px" div class="media__image-wrapper" div div img loading="lazy" decoding="async" fetchpriority="low" src="https://www.bravotv.com/sites/bravo/files/styles/scale_862/public/2024/03/below-decks-dylan-pierre-de-villier.jpg?itok=KRPu61gL" width="862" height="575" alt="Dylan Pierre De Villier wearing a blue polo on a yacht" typeof="foaf:Image" /div /div /div div class="media__metadata" div class="media__metadata-wrapper" span class="media__caption" Dylan Pierre De Villier during Below Deck Season 11 Episode 8. /span span class="media__credit"Photo: Bravo /span /div /div /div /div h2Who is Dylan Pierre De Villiers?/h2 pAhead of his debut on emBelow Deck/em, Dylan revealed a href="https://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/who-is-dylan-pierre-de-villiers-below-deck-season-11" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"more about his life/a toem The Daily Dish/em, sharing that his favorite off-boat activities include "eating protein powder, benching 225 pounds, working on my cars, building stuff, helping kids get better habits, making videos on YouTube, exploring the world."/p pHe's also into kickboxing, working on his dream car, and watchingema data-entity-href="/node/921501" data-entity-substitution="canonical" data-entity-title="Vanderpump Rules" data-entity-type="node" data-entity-uuid="d5fe12fd-8173-4b88-a94f-2984e70783fa" href="https://www.bravotv.com/vanderpump-rules" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" title="Vanderpump Rules"Vanderpump Rules/a./em/p pWe'll have to wait and see how he does aboard the yacht. Watch new episodes ofemBelow Deck/emon Mondays at 9/8c on Bravo. Stream episodes the next day ona href="https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/below-deck/7650158968969233112" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Peacock/a./p