‘I Did This Publicly For a Reason’

The 40-year-old singer appeared on the December 16, episode his of spouse Bunnie Xo’s podcast, Dumb Blonde, the place Bunnie shared that her husband misplaced the burden “naturally.”

“He is placing within the work,” she mentioned. “I do not need anyone to ever take that from you.”

“We’re not in opposition to Ozempic or any of that stuff. Each physician I’ve talked to is for it. They mentioned it helps. I simply was afraid of it,” Jelly Roll added, earlier than sharing what really made him nervous.

“As a singer, few issues scare me greater than acid reflux disorder. Like, you will watch me stand up out of a mattress, I am going to burp and get up panicked and go take one thing for it. You recognize? As a result of that stuff will simply rip the vocal cords,” he revealed.

“I simply couldn’t afford any acid reflux disorder. So I wish to be very clear that I’ve carried out it naturally, however it wasn’t out of stubbornness or attempting to show some extent. If it helps you, go get it. However for me, I used to be simply afraid of the uncomfortable side effects of it,” he defined.

To date he has has misplaced 140 kilos naturally — nevertheless, he admitted he has slacked off on the exercises since coming residence from his Fantastically Damaged tour, earlier than setting a brand new objective for himself.

“I wanna be on the duvet of Males’s Well being by March of 2026,” he revealed.

“I wanna have one of many largest transformations,” he mentioned. “I did this publicly for a motive. I wanna be trustworthy about my struggles with it with folks. I wore it for therefore lengthy. I believe that individuals that turn out to be as huge as I grew to become, after they lose the burden, they’re type of ashamed. They’re so ashamed that they go conceal and lose the burden, after which they arrive again out they usually do not actually know methods to work together with the world wanting totally different or feeling totally different.”

“I wished to lose it in entrance of all people,” he mentioned. “I wanna convey folks together with me.”

The Grammy-award profitable artist then apologized his determination to shed some pounds took him “so lengthy.”

“I am sorry it took so lengthy. I can not consider I walked round like a 550-lb. zombie for years. I even look again on the footage and I used to be simply hole,” he informed his spouse.

“I am gonna hold getting it off like I’ve been,” he mentioned, including “like, actually, like, 140 or one thing.”

“That is a human,” he mentioned. “I misplaced a complete human.”