Machine Gun Kelly discussed his eating habits in a resurfaced video and his description has fans worried.
In the video, posted by Instagram account @hiphopnmore on July 7, Kelly, 35, tells a group of people during a live stream that he only eats a couple times a week.
“Like, I ate that burger ’cause we’re streaming, and it’s my man’s s***, you know?” he said,
“OK, if we weren’t streaming, what would you have had for dinner?” one of the men in the video asked, to which the singer replied, “probably water.”
Asked if his fasting ever caused him to feel lightheaded, Kelly replied, “Yeah, sometimes. I’ll eat, like, a couple times a week.
He added that he sometimes drinks celery juice and coconut water, and that his meals usually consist of “bone broth with kimchi and sauerkraut.”
“‘Cause it has probiotics, you know?” he said. “So, like, when you do those water fasts, the only thing that’s crazy is it kills all the good bacteria in you, too, so you gotta put the pro[biotics].”
It’s unclear when the video was recorded, but Kelly revealed that at the time, he felt sick because he did not have his coffee and cigarettes with him.
Us Weekly has reached out to Kelly for comment on the video.
Commenters were quick to criticize both Kelly and the men he was talking to for promoting unhealthy — and dangerous — habits.
“Bro is describing anorexia,” wrote one fan.
Another added, “His friends hyping up this delirium is wild. ‘Healthy as hell’ = Malnourished and loading up on coffee and cigarettes. But I drink bone broth… I’m good. Cool 😂”
“My dad has had anorexia for most of his adult life, and this is how he sounds,” said a third. “It took me a long time to realize he had an ED, cuz we never talk about men having it. His vice is alcohol instead of cigs…He’s 74 this year and has many alcohol and low body weight induced illnesses, I truly have no idea how he’s alive.”
A father of two daughters, Kelly shares Casie, 16, with ex Emma Cannon and Saga, 4 months, with ex-fiancé Megan Fox.
In a January interview with Nylon, Fox, 39, discussed how she has helped him overcome his “self-destructive tendencies.”
“There’s never an attempt to control him on my end,” she said. “It’s more that he looks to me to avoid his own self-destructive tendencies. And that’s where I’m useful because, on his own and left to his own devices, I don’t know how much interest he has in caring for himself.”
