Jelly Roll has been open about his weight loss journey in interviews
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During the Wednesday, Dec. 10 edition of The Joe Rogan Experience, the country superstar said his weight used to affect his sex life
"I couldn't even get aroused," the singer admitted
Jelly Roll's physical transformation has transformed his life in the bedroom.
During an appearance on the Wednesday, Dec. 10, episode ofThe Joe Rogan Experience, the country superstar, who began losing weight in 2022 and hassince lost nearly 200 lbs., candidly discussed how his weight affected his sex life.
The singer, whospent 13 years in and out of prisonandhad a drug addiction, said that before losing weight, "sex life with my wife [Bunnie Xo] was horrible."
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"Dude, I married a f------ big titty blonde beautiful woman, dog," he said. "You know what I mean? I married the kind of woman that makes you smile when you're crying, Joe."
"I couldn't even get aroused, I was so big. I was having to play Twister to have sex," the artist said.
"Left foot here, right foot in the X, you know? Are we in there yet? Tell me if you feel something. I mean, it was bad," he recalled.
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Thedad of twosaid he was "too big" to even throw a football with his son,Noah Buddy, 9.
Jelly Roll quickly realized how much his weight and drug addiction issues were impacting his family.
"I realized that in addiction, the family will kind of cater to the addict," said the musician. "It's nature. Like if somebody in your family was a drug addict, you would help with their kids, you would feel a need to help in their absence — it's what we do as a family, it's human nature."
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He continued: "I realized then how much my addiction was hurting this family."
In November 2024, he told PEOPLE that hehad to change the way he had "looked at foodfor the last 39 years" to lose weight. It was an issue, he said, that began when he was a kid growing up in Antioch, Tenn., near Nashville.
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"Nobody in my house ever had [a healthy relationship with food], so that was the hard part, really fighting that demon at first and getting into that discipline and that commitment," he said. "But once you get into that discipline and commitment, it's like an avalanche. Once that little snowball started rolling, it was on its way."
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