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Gene Simmons explains why he doesn’t drink alcohol – and why sugary meals are “as a lot enjoyable as I’ve with my pants on” Guitar Contact

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Gene Simmons has walked followers via his ardour for sober dwelling, and his peculiar rockstar weight loss program – together with a whole lot of candy treats.

The Kiss bassist has proudly by no means drank alcohol or used medicine, however does take pleasure in a whole lot of cake which he, apparently, additionally rubs throughout himself after present. In a video titled Fitness center & Fridge for Males’s Well being, Simmons says his weight loss program is about “as a lot enjoyable as I can have with my pants on”.

“When in the course of a tour, I’d eat cheesecake on daily basis as a result of I’m sporting 40 kilos of armour, seven-inch platform heels — every one of many dragon boots in all probability weighed, I don’t know, eight to 10 kilos, a leg, a foot. You don’t must do something. Inside two hours, you may be exhausted,” he says [via Blabbermouth].

“The quantity of energy burned on stage, it’s like a heavy exercise. And so I might eat something. Surprisingly, I wouldn’t be that hungry, after you exert that stress, however I’d crave sweets. Within the morning, large egg white, possibly slightly steak, toast, espresso. After which nothing till about three, 4 o’clock within the afternoon — slightly pasta for some carbs, after which hit the stage. Coming off the stage, cake. I wouldn’t even must eat it, I’d simply rub it throughout myself.”

Of his sober life-style, he credit his mom for conserving him on the proper path: “I don’t drink. I by no means have… The rock world is full of losers, idiots. Truly, I believe it goes again to my mom. She was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s focus camps at 14 years of age, and I by no means needed to interrupt her coronary heart. I’m her solely baby, so this concept that you possibly can be a loser, not be capable of earn a dwelling, and destroy your self… It’s loopy. No.”

Elsewhere within the video, Simmons says he’s by no means been “gung-ho about docs”, however does proudly proclaim himself to be “the physician of affection”. A moderately daring assertion certainly, however nothing wanting stunning from Simmons. Actually, again in 2023 he “confirmed” rumours that he’d slept with over 5,000 ladies.

Kiss performed their ultimate present in December 2023, and are as a consequence of return as stay avatars solely sooner or later.




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