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Al Roker Says a Final Promise to His Dad Led to His Gastric Bypass

Al Roker underwent gastric bypass surgery in 2002 and dropped 100 pounds by the end of that year

The beloved Today cohost revealed in his 2013 memoir, Never Goin’ Back: Winning the Weight Loss Battle for Good, that he gained 40 pounds after the death of his mother in 2011. “I’m not gonna judge anybody,” the Today show host, 70, told the Daily Mail in an interview published on Saturday, November 9, while promoting his new cookbook Al Roker’s Recipes to Live By: Easy, Memory-Making Family Dishes for Every Occasion. Al RokerJP Yim/Getty Images for NYCWFFTwo years later, Roker had another health scare that resulted in him missing three weeks of work on the Today show.

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