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Backstreet Boys Are "Larger Than Life" successful Las Vegas
AJ McLean is proud of the advancement he's made.
The Backstreet Boys vocalist shared a assemblage transformation connected Instagram with pictures taken a twelvemonth apart, celebrating the changes he has made amid his sobriety journey. The photos amusement "dad bod" AJ posing with 2 bid signs, portion side-by-side with images of the "I Want It That Way" creator muscled up astatine the gym.
"Found the pic connected the near from a twelvemonth agone connected vacation," AJ captioned his station connected Sept. 1, "and wow it's astonishing what a small dedication and mounting goals tin bash for a person. The travel is acold from implicit though. This is conscionable the beginning!"
AJ besides took clip to motivate others looking to commencement a caller lifestyle, writing, "Let's go! If I tin bash it truthful tin you!!"
In 2020, the 44-year-old shared connected an Dec. 6 occurrence of his Pretty Messed Up podcast that helium was adjacent to the one-year day of his sobriety. AJ volition people 3 years sober successful December 2022.
"As agelong arsenic I'm keeping my broadside of the thoroughfare clean, I can't interest astir keeping your broadside of the thoroughfare clean," AJ said astatine the time, speaking to podcast co-host and erstwhile Dancing With the Stars spouse Cheryl Burke. "And everything really worked itself out. I consciousness overmuch better."
AJ discussed his "turning point" during an October 2020 interrogation with Good Morning America. The singer—who shares daughters Lyric, 5, and Elliot, 9, with woman Rochelle DeAnna McLean—said helium moved to go sober aft coming location from a Las Vegas travel and facing his family's absorption to the odor of intoxicant lingering connected him.
"My woman could odor it connected my breath," AJ said. "And my youngest of my 2 daughters would not beryllium with me."
He added, "There's excessively overmuch to unrecorded for today. My beauteous children, my astonishing wife, my career, my brothers. I've ne'er felt much grounded than I bash today."
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