Luke Combs has spoken candidly about his lifelong battle with weight and his wish to lead a healthy lifestyle for his infant son. An article by Luke Combs Interview with Apple Music 1, the 32-year-old country star told Zane Lowe that he has long felt uncomfortable with his body but has been unable to get in shape due to an unhealthy relationship with food.
“It was always something that’s bugged me… especially when you’re younger,”He stated. “You’re like, ‘Man, I just got a horrible genetic dice roll on this thing.’ You start to realize that almost even more when you’re older, and it’s like, not that I don’t pig out because I do pig out.”
“I’m not trying to say it’s not my fault because it is in a lot of ways,”Combs were added. “But also, I got to this point where I’m like, man, I’d really love to trim down. And it’s so hard for me to do that.”
Combs claimed that losing weight was not a problem from an execution perspective because he knows what he has to do. He said it is difficult to maintain a consistent diet.
The music legend compared it to a drug addiction and stated that he believes that food is a drug but that it is essential for survival.
“I don’t need a cigarette to be alive. But I need food to be alive,” Combs said. “It’s like, you would literally die without food. And so that’s what makes it such a difficult thing.”
Despite facing such issues for years, it was only after the birth of his son Tex Lawrence with wife Nicole on June 19 that he reassessed his priorities.
“This having a kid thing has really messed up my head on this thing in the best way,”He stated. “I want to be around, dude. Do you know what I mean?”
The songwriter said that it was because he was an a…” “younger guy,”His cholesterol and blood pressure are good for now. Combs worries that Combs’ weight will be a problem in 15 years.
“I want my thing to continually become better overall. The show, the songs, the everything,”He stated. “I feel like sometimes I go in, I’m like, ‘Man, I don’t want people to think of me in this way where it’s like, this guy doesn’t care about himself.”‘
“And I know not that anybody does, that’s another OCD thing where you’re like- … what’s everybody, what are they going to think? And so it’s something that I’ve definitely struggled with, but it’s also something that I just am also really comfortable in my own skin as well,”The musician was not finished.
Two-time Grammy nominee, Absolute Radio Country that while he’s getting ready to embark on his Middle of Somewhere Tour this fall, his family is not joining him on the road. Combs stated that he would not compromise his father-son relationship to support his career.
“I would love to have them out as much as they want to be out, as much as they can be out,”Combs share. “You know, I think that’s important. I don’t want to be a dad that’s not around or the dad that you see on TV and go,’ Oh, that is my dad, and that is where he is today, I guess.’ Family is important to me. I’d like to be the guy throwing the football to them.”
