• Country singer Luke Combs opened up about his lifelong struggles with his weight.
• He said he feels like food is a narcotic, but one “that you have to have to live”.
• The singer’s third album, Growin’ Up, was released on Friday.

Luke Combs is opening up about his lifelong struggles with his weight, and his desire to get healthy for his newborn son.

Luke Combs 32-year-old country singer admitted to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 that he has long felt uneasy about his appearance but has struggled to lose weight due to his unhealthful connection with food.

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“It was always something that’s bugged me… especially when you’re younger,” he said. “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. 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.”

Luke Combs claimed that from a “execution” perspective, he didn’t find losing weight difficult because he is fully aware of what to do and how to do it. Instead, the “Doin’ It” singer, whose third album, Growin’ Up, was released on Friday, claimed that he has difficulty eating “consistently.”

The celebrity claimed that he feels like food is a narcotic, but one “that you have to have to live,” which makes things difficult. He compared it to a drug addiction.

“I don’t need a cigarette to be alive. But I need food to be alive,” he said. “It’s like, you would literally die without food. And so that’s what makes it such a difficult thing.”

Although Combs claimed to have suffered with these problems for years, he only recently gave his situation another look after the birth of his son Tex Lawrence on June 19 with wife Nicole.

“This having a kid thing has really messed up my head on this thing in the best way,” he said. “I want to be around, dude. Do you know what I mean?”

The three-time Grammy Award nominee said that although he is “a younger guy,” his blood pressure and cholesterol are both “fine” right now.

However, Combs claimed he is worried about his weight in 15 or so years.

“I want my thing to continually become better overall. The show, the songs, the everything,” he said. “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.”

On Father’s Day, Combs and Nicole announced the birth of baby Tex and posted a cute picture of themselves cradling their little son in his nursery on social media.

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“Welp he decided that Fathers Day would be a good time to show up. I couldn’t agree more. Me and @nicolejcombs are over the moon in love with this little guy,” the singer captioned his post.

In a separate post, Nicole referred to the newborn as “the best chillest angel boy.”