Kane Brown.Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty
Kane Brownis expanding his culinary horizons.
The 28-year-old country star revealedduring an appearance on Audacy’sRob + Hollyshowthat he recently tried spinach and kale for the first time, while eating dinner after a concert.
It was a big step for the Tennessee native, who proclaimed on the program that “anything green, I don’t eat.”
“All I eat is chicken and rice, literally breakfast, lunch, and dinner,” Brown said, recalling how his disdain for vegetables even extended to his fast food consumption. “If I had a taco from Taco Bell and there was a small piece of lettuce in my taco, I would throw the whole thing away because I feel like it stains the food. It tastes like lettuce.”
That’s slowly been changing as Brown as been on a quest to get into shape. Back in January, he toldMen’s Healththathe hopes to be the fittest guy in country music, and had spent a year working out six days a week to achieve that goal.
“I need to start eating better,” he confessed to the outlet. “I don’t really eat good.”
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Turns out, Brown was ready to finally take that first step the other day. “My after-show food had spinach or kale, which I never have,” Brown said onRob + Holly. “I was like, ‘You know what, whatever. I’m about to eat it. I gotta be healthy.’ And I ate it.”
He recorded the experience in video on his phone, but told hosts Rob Stone and Holly Hutton that he wouldn’t be releasing the clip anytime soon.
“I was a little intoxicated,” Brown confessed, adding that he liked what he tried. “It was actually pretty good. I’d never had it before. I wasn’t mad. I was like, ‘Maybe I just had to be drunk?’ "
Spinach or kale hasn’t been the only new foods Brown has been sampling recently. “I tried carrots,” he said. “I’ve been trying stuff, I just don’t stay with it.”
He went on to say that he “grew up on American food” like ravioli, beefaroni, macaroni, and hot dogs — food his mom made for him because they “didn’t have a lot of money.”
The one vegetable he would eat? Green beans.
“My grandpa’s a farmer so the only good thing I had was green beans, that he would make,” Brown said. “That was like the only vegetable I would eat. Corn technically ain’t a vegetable, I don’t feel like. Peas, I love peas. But anything else green, I don’t eat.”
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Brown is up for three American Music Awards this year, and has a new song (“Leave You Alone”) out Friday.
Kingsley is “starting to get into her big sister role,” the “One Mississippi” artist said onSuperstar Power Hourlast week.
source: people.com
