“Feel Like A Teenager Again” – Jelly Roll Gets Candid About Low Testosterone & New Bedroom Performance After 275-Pound Weight Loss

Men’s Health

Jelly Roll has lost an astonishing 275 pounds over the last two years and has truly transformed into a new man in front of the public’s eyes.

At his highest, the country singer (whose real name is Jason DeFord) weighed around 550 pounds, but he knew he had to make a change. Jelly Roll recently admitted that it got to the point that he was “disgusted” with himself and struggling to do daily tasks:

“A little bit over a year ago, I was, I literally struggled to walk down my hill to the mailbox. I mean, it was really bad. And I had let myself get to a point of just being absolutely disgusted with myself.”

He even had trouble wiping after using the bathroom:

“I would have to put my arm on the wall and turn a little bit, making sure the wall would keep it that way… you have no clue what a 550 lb man has to do to wipe.”

And his personal health consultant, Gary Brecka, says that Jelly Roll got to the point that he was afraid he would die in his sleep:

“He would say, ‘I have to sleep on my side and wedge myself in with pillows, because if I roll on my back at night, I’ll suffocate. I’ll vomit.’ He was like, ‘I never turn the radio down in the car, because when I pull up to a stoplight, I can hear myself wheezing.

So I’ll just turn the radio up to bury the sound of my own breath wheezing. Every morning that he would wake up… he would thank God that he didn’t die that night, because he felt like he was gonna die every night he went to sleep.”

Well, long story short, two years later, Jelly Roll looks like a whole new person. He recently even joked about the hit that his bank account was going to take now that he’s finally about to fit into Louis Vuitton. His transformation is truly incredible.

While Jelly has spoken about how his weight has affected his personal life, during a recent sit-down with Joe Rogan for the Joe Rogan Experience, Jelly Roll candidly admitted that his sex life with his wife, Bunnie Xo, has suffered as well.

“My sex life with my wife was horrible. Dude, I married a f***ing big t**ty blonde, beautiful woman, you know what I mean? I married the kind of woman that makes you smile when you cry. And I couldn’t even get aroused because I was so big.

I was having to play Twister to have sex. ‘Left foot here, right foot in the X, are we in there yet? Tell me if you feel something.’”

Jelly Roll opened up more on this topic during a recent spread in Men’s Health, noting that intimacy is no longer an issue for him and Bunnie now that he’s dropped 275 pounds.

“I feel like I’m a teenager, dog. I have the sex drive of a 17-year-old again. I’m f***ing pouncing on my wife. We’re having daytime sex again. It’s f***ing awesome.”

The root of his issues with intimacy when he was at his heaviest stemmed from his hormones being off. While the physical act of getting down in the bedroom was hard, given his weight, he also had some other issues… with performance.

“My testosterone level — and I’m cool to talk about this openly — was of a preteen boy. I went in there for the test, it was bad. Bad. The world opened up when I seen it on paper. I was like, ‘That’s my testosterone level? I mean, dude, we’re talking a 57. You can’t get it up without T. I was married to a smoke show, and I was still struggling…. The first couple of blood panels were like, ‘How are you alive?’ Now it’s a totally different thing.”‘

Not only is Bunnie and Jelly Roll’s sex life better now that he’s lost weight, but the two can also share a bed again, leading to more intimate moments between the two.

“I was so fat that there came a moment in life that my wife and I had to put two queen beds beside each other because we couldn’t fit in a king bed anymore. I was just all over.”

Jelly Roll’s transformation is inspiring, and it’s incredible to see him speak so candidly about how it has positively impacted all aspects of his life. Jelly Roll met his goal of getting on the cover of Men’s Health just days into 2026… next up is his shirtless cover for 2027.