His new approach without alcohol and cigarettes has led to his new slimline look, he says
Ed Sheeran has revealed the secret of his youthful look – good clean living. He told how he has quit cigarettes and alcohol for good. The Shape of You star is looking younger than ever as he embraces life as a devoted dad.
And he responded to one fan who pointed out his healthy glow after he performed the unreleased song Old Phone for US chat show host Jimmy Fallon. They wrote: “Gorgeous song. But what deal did he make with the devil to age in reverse like that?” To which Ed, 34, replied: “I stopped drinking and smoking, does wonders.”
Two years ago, the Shivers star confessed that he spent his 20s being “a party boy”. But when he realized that his bad habits would have an impact on the family he was building with wife Cherry Seaborn, he made some changes.
“Two months before Lyra was born, Cherry said, ‘If my waters break, do you really want someone else to drive me to the hospital?’ Because I was just drinking a lot,” he recalled. “And that’s when it clicked. I was like, ‘No, actually, I really don’t.’ And I don’t ever want to be pissed holding my kid. Ever, ever.”
Sheeran and Seaborn welcomed Lyra in August 2020, and have since become a family of four with the birth of daughter Jupiter in May 2022.
The singer-songwriter said that upon realizing he wanted to get his life in order, he learned to be content with the fact that his party days were now behind him.
“Having a couple of beers is one thing. But having a bottle of vodka is another thing. It’s just a realization of, ‘I’m getting into my thirties,” he said. “Grow up! You’ve partied, you’ve had this experience. Be happy with that and just be done.
“I love red wine, and I love beer. I don’t know any old rockers that aren’t alcoholics or sober, and I didn’t want to be either.” Sheeran has previously described himself as having an “addictive personality,” and in 2020, said he “would stay up and drink all night” during a particularly unhealthy stretch of his World Tour in 2015.
The star credited his wife, Cherry, and a more healthy lifestyle for helping him turn his life around. “She exercises a lot, so I started going on runs with her. She eats quite healthily so I started eating quite healthily. She doesn’t drink that much so I wasn’t drinking,” he said. “I think that all changed things.” Sheeran has previously told how the 180-date world tour to promote his 2014 album X, was his lowest point.
“I would stay up and drink all night and then sleep on the bus,” he said. “The buses would park underneath the arenas and I’d sleep on the bus all day, then wake up and then come out, do the show, drink, get back on the bus and I didn’t see sunlight for maybe four months.
“It’s all fun and games at the start. it’s all rock and roll, and then like it starts getting sad. That was probably like the lowest that I’ve been and I kind of ballooned in weight.” Sheeran was signed to Elton John’s management company at the start of his career – and he said that reading his mentor’s autobiography had prompted a few realisations about his own lifestyle.
“There are so many things that he did that I do,” the star explained.
“He would be like, ‘I would just go on an ice cream binge and eat four desserts until I threw up’, and I was like, ‘I’ve done that before’.
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