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Jelly Roll is stepping out with his headline-making new look!
On Sunday, Nov. 23, the singer, 40, showed off his beard-less appearance at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium ahead of the game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Tennessee Titans.
He supported his hometown team by wearing a Tennessee Titans black hoodie, completing his look with black pants and a black hat. The star also appeared to have a bit of stubble days after surprising fans by shaving his beard after more than a decade.
The “Save Me” singer showed off his new look in a Thursday, Nov. 20 Instagram video, saying in the post that he originally kept his beard because of his weight. In the clip, he joked, he said he feels like a “Ninja Turtle.”
On Nov. 13, Jelly Roll’s wife, Bunnie Xo, revealed on Instagram that her husband (whose real name is Jason DeFord) shaved off his facial hair for a shoot he recently did. “Because now that he’s so skinny — look at that freaking jawline — we wanna see that jawline, right, ladies?” she joked.
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She wrote in the caption that Jelly Roll would reveal the final transformation “when he’s ready,” but piqued fans’ curiosity as she filmed herself reacting to her husband shaving his facial hair into a “goatee” and a “cop stache” before going completely beardless. “I have never seen this man without his facial hair. Not one freaking time,” she said.
Jelly Roll’s daughter Bailee Ann had a hilarious reaction to her dad shaving off his signature beard.
In a YouTube vlog shared on Thursday, Nov. 20, the “I Am Not Okay” singer revealed he would be changing up his look and then surprising his family. After revealing that he had only told his wife of his decision to shave the beard, he said, “My daughter’s going to see me without a beard for the first time ever.”
After Bunnie filmed Jelly Roll shaving off his beard, he walked into the kitchen to greet his 17-year-old daughter, whom he shares with a previous partner. The teen could not stop laughing, telling her dad to “Stay over there,” as he chuckled behind the camera.
“Oh my God, I’m going to cry. I don’t like this,” Bailee said while laughing through tears. “You look like a turtle. I don’t like this. Oh my God. I don’t know if I’m laughing or if this is … ” she trailed off.
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In recent years, Jelly Roll has been on weight loss journey, dropping nearly 200 lbs. from his previous weight of 550 lbs. Two years after embarking on his transformation in 2022, he told PEOPLE that he had lost 110 lbs. by changing his lifestyle to prioritize exercise and making healthier food choices.
“It’s cool because there was once a time in life that the culture I built on tour was the opposite,” the Grammy nominee said. “It revolved around alcohol and drugs. And now our tour culture is around good eating and around exercising and doing emotional check-ins with our crew every day.”
He also shared why he hasn’t taken Ozempic, the GLP-1 that some celebrities have been using to aid in weight loss.
“I just was afraid of it …” he admitted, revealing his fear of the possibility of suffering from acid reflux, a side effect of the medication. “So I want to be very clear that I’ve done it naturally, but it wasn’t out of stubbornness or trying to prove a point. If it helps you, go get it. But for me, I was just petrified of the side effects of it.”
