Jelly Roll reveals he has suffered ‘staph infections from bad tattoos’ and regrets nearly all his body art

Jelly Roll’s body is covered in dozens of tattoos that the singer got when he was much younger, but at 39, he now regrets most of them.

The hitmaker, whose wife Bunnie XO, 44, revealed they are trying IVF to have another child, opened up about his body art during a recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show.

When asked if he has any regrets about his body art, the award-winning singer revealed, “I have a tattoo on my arm that I gave someone a quarter bag of bad weed for, and it looks like a quarter bag of bad weed tattoo. ‘

Overall, the Halfway to Hell artist, whose real name is Jason DeFord, said the tattoos “look good because they’re all together, so you’re like, ‘They don’t look terrible, Jelly.’

“But until you dissect them and zoom in, you think, ‘These are bad. They’re just bad art. There’s no other way to say it.’

Revealing a frightening detail, the Dancing with the Devil artist explained, “I got staph infections from bad tattoos. “I didn’t learn anything,” he said.

‘You’re talking stubborn. And yet I went back to the same man who gave me the staph infection.”

The Tennessee native explained that he got his first tattoo at age 14 and that many of the now-deplorable images came while he was behind bars.

It took years for the Bottle and Mary Jane artist to kick drug addiction, resulting in him being incarcerated about 40 times for drug abuse.

One of the tattoos he’s most angry about is of a baby smoking a blunt. “It was a bit exaggerated,” the Wild Ones artist now admits.

“I regret 98% of these tattoos, 97, almost all of them,” he said GQ in March.

‘Just as the core philosophies are ingrained in my life when I was 17 and now I’m 40, I think, “What the hell was I thinking?”

“I hate them all,” he said.

When asked about ink he regrets appearing on the June 12 episode of The Howard Stern Show, Jelly Roll revealed, “I have a tattoo on my arm that I gave someone a quarter bag of bad weed for, and it looks like a quarter bag of bad weed. bad weed tattoo’ (pictured in Nashville in May 2023)

Revealing a frightening detail, the Dancing with the Devil artist explained, “I got staph infections from bad tattoos. “I didn’t learn anything,” he said. ‘You’re talking stubborn. And I still went back to the same guy who gave me the staph infection’ (pictured in Indio, CA in April)

The CMT Music Award winner, who has started a healthier lifestyle and lost 70 pounds in five months, has said he is training to participate in a Thanksgiving 5K run.

“I really kicked some ass, man,” Jelly Roll said People in April.

‘I do two to three miles a day, four to six days a week. I spend 20 to 30 minutes in the sauna every day, including six minutes in a cold dip. I eat healthy now.’

The Save Me singer, who says he has struggled with his weight since childhood, once topped the scales at 500 pounds.

‘In 2015 I weighed over 500 [pounds] I’m not sure how much, the [doctor’s] scales weighed only 500 [pounds] they suggested I go to a meatpacker or truck stop to determine my actual weight,” he said.

“It was one of the most embarrassing days of my life, and the bottom line was that I did it to myself.”

The artist has started living a healthier lifestyle and revealed that he recently lost around 30 pounds as he and his wife Bunnie XO embark on an IVF journey to have another child. They are parents to Noah, seven, and the singer has a daughter, Bailee, 15 (pictured in Beverly Hills in February)

Jelly Roll has many incentives to lead a healthier lifestyle. In addition to trying to expand their family, he and Bunnie XO are parents to son Noah, seven.

The doting dad also has daughter Bailee, 15, from a former relationship.

Jelly Roll just released its newest song, the heartfelt I Am Not Ok, on June 12th. The single reached number one on the iTunes chart, replacing Eminem’s Houdini.

He will co-host CMA Fest with Ashley McBride on June 25.