Country singer Jelly Roll has dropped 275 pounds since 2020.
The “Save Me” singer graces the cover Men’s Health Winter 2026 Issuewhere she flaunts her new figure and opens up about her weight loss in a new photoshoot and interview with the brand. When he first started this journey, he weighed 540 pounds at all.
Jelly Roll, whose real name is Jason Bradley DeFord, explained to the Journal that what really helped him lose weight was treating his relationship with food for what it really was: an addiction. He first sought therapy for his representative, noting, “That was a big part of my journey: he wanted to know what was going on inside me.”
“I went to cocaine meetings and found a sponsor and detoxed from it and myself and went through some really tough, life-changing emotional choices to get off cocaine and codeine,” Jelly Roll continued.
“I didn’t look at my food addiction differently. Once I started treating food like an addiction, that started to change everything for me. I started to really look at the source of why I was eating. What was I eating for?” he said.
Jelly Roll, who had been a heavy drug user for years, got clean in 2008 when he learned his first child, daughter Bailee Ann DeFord, was born while he was incarcerated.
Prior to his life as a Grammy-nominated singer, Jelly Roll was arrested approximately 40 times, with his first at age 14 and his last at 23. Most of his time behind bars stemmed from drug offenses, although he was also incarcerated at age 17 for aggravated robbery.
In a video published by Men’s Health on InstagramJelly Roll is seen embracing his new lifestyle, which includes running, weightlifting and boxing. “Just a dramatically different world,” he told the paper.
Jelly Roll’s Men’s Health issue is on stands now. You can also read his interview with the brand online here.
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