US music star Jelly Roll reveals 90kg weight loss and his surprising goal for the future

The 40-year-old breakout star has transformed himself since he first scored a popular international hit last year.

Jelly Roll is breezing through his weight-loss goals and celebrating his latest milestone.

Earlier this year, the country music singer celebrated not only a significantly lower number on the scale, but an improvement in his overall fitness, reports Fox News.

He’s lost nearly 90kg and still plans on dropping more.

“I started at 540 pounds (245kg) and I was 357 (162kg) pounds this morning,” the 40-year-old said on a live special of the Pat McAfee Show on Wednesday.

“I’m gonna lose another 100 pounds (45kg) and go skydiving with my wife in Sweden, baby!,” he added.

Jelly Roll has been on a weight loss journey. Picture: Getty Images.

Roll has lost over 90kg since his decision to get into shape. Picture: Getty.

In February, he told E! News at a pre-Super Bowl party that he “hiked a mountain the other day. Camelback,” referring to the Arizona mountains.

“There is no way that would have been possible beforehand, so it’s great to see that progress, and we still are going,” the singer, born Jason Bradley DeFord, said.

The Son of a Sinner singer has been on a weight-loss journey since December 2022 and has seen incredible success, but admitted it hasn’t always been easy.

“It isn’t always the case where I feel focused or positive,” he admitted to E! News. “The things that motivate me and keep me going are the people I have met along the way … The people that come up to me and bravely share their sobriety date, or a story of something that they’ve dealt with, or someone they’ve lost.”

He added, “Seeing the resilience of the human spirit, there is no greater motivation than to keep going.”

The star hopes to be on the cover of Men’s Health within the next year. Picture: Getty.

In December 2024, he spoke on his wife Bunnie Xo’s Dumb Blonde podcast about why he decided to be open with his fans about losing weight.

“I did this publicly for a reason,” he said. “I want to be honest about my struggles with it with people. I wore it for so long.”

Jelly Roll continued, “I think that people that become as big as I became, when they lose the weight, they’re kind of ashamed. They’re so ashamed that they go and hide and lose the weight, and then they come back out, and they don’t really know how to interact with the world, looking different or feeling different, you know? And they kind of got to find their whole new way.”

“I wanted to lose it in front of everybody. I wanted to talk about it … This is constantly what I’m putting in the air because I want to bring people along with me.”

He later told Bunnie, “I wanna be on the cover of Men’s Health by March of 2026. That’s my new goal. So I wanna have one of the biggest transformations.”

This story originally appeared on Fox News and is republished here with permission.