News: Jay Sean's Rise From 14-Stone Overweight School Kid To Pop Heart-Throb

Jay Sean comments on his high school days, "I was a very, very fat kid, I was 14 stone when i left [High] school. “I challenged myself. I used to look at pictures in magazines and go, I wish I had a body like that.

Excerpt from the Times newspaper interview on Jay's overweight school days:

He sips a protein shake, the first of many. He maintains an Atkins-like diet, no carbs, lots of meat, protein, burnt off again with daily workouts and yoga. He doesn’t smoke, doesn’t do drugs, but he’s not a complete automaton, he does at least enjoy a drink. “But even if I’m twisted out of my head and go for a kebab, I’ll order the meat and chuck the bread straight away. I’m just so focused on some areas of my life that I just won’t allow myself to veer off that path.”

There it is again, that drive, the control-freakery. Show and prove. Where does it come from? School, he replies, possibly the first R&B star to cite private school as an inspiration. “The school I went to was incredible. And the reason was that everyone was highly motivated. You had kids on scholarships because their parents couldn’t afford it. You had the super super-rich. You had people who were just middle or working-class. But the one thing everyone had in common was that they were highly driven.”

He was a straight-A student at GCSE, then got three A-levels: an A in biology and Bs in maths and chemistry. “I was a supernerd,” he laughs. He was supersized too, “a very, very fat kid. I was 14st when I left school. Ask anyone at Latymer”. But after a year of studying medicine at Queen Mary College, University of London, he began exercising and dieting obsessively. “I challenged myself. I used to look at pictures in magazines and go, I wish I had a body like that. And I said to myself, one day I will look like that. I will get that body. And I worked my arse off to get it. I lost 3st over the summer, people didn’t recognise me.”

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