Country singer Jelly Roll, 41, has credited his significant weight loss with improving his overall health and intimate life with his wife, Bunnie Xo. In a Men’s Health cover story published January 2, the musician opened up about the role of testosterone in his health transformation. “My testosterone level — and I’m cool to talk about this openly — was of a preteen boy,” he said. “When I went in there for the test, it was bad.” A normal testosterone level for men Jelly Roll’s age typically ranges from 300 to 900 ng/dL, but for men struggling with obesity, the number can fall below 300. Jelly Roll revealed his testosterone level at a test was 57.
Jelly Roll explained that before his weight loss journey, he struggled with sexual intimacy despite being in love with his wife, whom he married in 2016. “You can’t get it up without T,” he explained. Before beginning his fitness journey, Jelly Roll weighed 540 pounds. He has now lost nearly 300 pounds, and described the difference in his life dramatically. “I’m chasing her around the house, you know what I’m saying? I’m like a teenage kid again! I’m like the Pink Panther: I bust out of every corner.”
Approach to Weight Loss
Jelly Roll emphasized that he achieved his weight loss without using GLP-1 weight loss medication. Instead, he addressed the psychological aspects of his eating habits through therapy. “Even before I got into getting my blood work done, I went and got mental health therapy about my overeating. I started treating my food addiction like what it was: an addiction,” he told Men’s Health. “Why did I treat cocaine a certain way? I went to meetings for cocaine and found a sponsor and detoxed off of it and went through real hard life-changing emotional choices to get off cocaine and codeine. I didn’t look at the food addiction different. Once I started treating food like an addiction, it started changing everything for me.”
Bunnie Xo, 45, remained supportive throughout his journey. She shared a playful video in August 2025 celebrating his accomplishment, writing, “When you have to check and make sure he’s still your squish after all the weight loss.”
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