Jason Biggs reveals the well being challenge that motivated him to drop 35 kilos.
“I had some ldl cholesterol points,” the “American Pie” star completely tells Web page Six on the Metropolis Harvest Gala in New York Metropolis on Tuesday.
“In all probability due to the … ice cream pints I’d knock again.”
Biggs, 46, explains he shed the load after altering his food plan and exercise routine.
“It’s been a journey,” he says. “My ldl cholesterol got here down 70 factors.”
Whereas the actor can’t pinpoint how lengthy it took to get his well being beneath management, he says it took “some time.”
Nonetheless, Biggs nonetheless indulges generally, telling us his favourite junk meals is ice cream, particularly from a gelato store within the West Village.
The “Loser” star additionally admits he throws again pints of Van Leeuwen every now and then.
Biggs has beforehand opened up about his well being, together with his previous wrestle with alcoholism, throughout an look on his spouse Jenny Mollen’s “All of the Fails” podcast in March 2024.
“I’m going to remedy and ‘engaged on issues’ however in the meantime I’m leaving remedy, having simply had session, and I’m going to the liquor retailer and shopping for a fifth of vodka, consuming it after which driving dwelling,” he shared, per Individuals.
“I knew the way to get wasted sufficient to the place I took myself out of the life equation, took myself out of the current, didn’t have to attach in a approach that made me really feel issues.”
Biggs claimed that he hid his alcoholism from his spouse, and he or she by no means observed it.
“I had it discovered to a T — to not get too drunk the place I couldn’t have a dialog with you,” he informed Mollen.
Biggs celebrated one 12 months of sobriety in 2018 after first trying to get clear 5 years earlier, per Individuals.
Biggs and Mollen, 45, tied the knot in 2008. They share sons Sid, 11, and Lazlo, 7.
