I was in the gym five days a week, two hours a day. At one point, I was going seven days straight. I had put on a lot of weight, and then I started losing it drastically, so I was worried. It turned out I was overworking myself. My trainer told me that I couldn't break a sweat, because I was burning more calories than I was putting on.

" Lautner later said he would not bare his chest for any role that did not call for it. He then appeared in small television parts on The Bernie Mac Show My Wife and Kids and Summerland. " He was named number one on Access Hollywood's "Top 5 Hollywood Abs" list.

Lautner is best known for playing Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series based on the novels of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. Also in the same year Lautner was named the highest-paid teenage actor in Hollywood. In 2010 he was ranked second on Glamour's "The 50 Sexiest Men of 2010" list and fourth on People's "Most Amazing Bodies" list.