Ed Sheeran has admitted consuming huge food portions in America made him 'fat' and he once projectile vomited after winning an ice cream eating competition while staying with Taylor Swift.
The superstar, 30, said he now asks for the size of his meals to be 'halved' when he visits the States after he gained weight trying to keep up with the country's oversized helpings.
In 2013, Taylor, 31, encouraged Ed to complete the Big Kahuna Challenge in Rhode Island, which resulted in him being violently ill after gauging on two litres of chocolate ice cream topped with gummy bears.
'I used to finish them': Ed Sheeran has admitted consuming huge food portions in America made him 'fat' and he now asks for the size of his meals to be 'halved' when he visits the States (pictured in 2017)
Ed said: 'I used to be a pizza and chips man and that's all I ate but when I started travelling the world my thing of it was if a whole culture goes 'this is our thing' and 'we love it' then I'm going to give it a go because when you go into any restaurant and there's a chef there and they specialise in something it must be good.
'We never wasted anything and that's the hardest thing about eating in America because the portion sizes are huge. I used to always finish them but then I turned into a fat c*** and now when I go back, I have to ask can you half or quarter it.'
The Bad Habits singer recalled feeling under 'pressure' to impress Taylor and a group of her fans that witnessed him take on the ice cream eating challenge, ending with him 'shivering' and 'being sick all over the floor.'
Speaking to Ed Gamble and James Acaster on the Off Menu podcast, he said: 'I was 22 and on tour with Taylor Swift and she had invited my family to go and stay with her. She had invited us to her place in Rhode Island and so we got there, and she said there's this great little ice cream place in the town.
'I started shivering': In 2013, Taylor encouraged Ed to complete the Big Kahuna Challenge in Rhode Island, which resulted in him being violently ill after gauging on two litres of ice cream (pictured in 2019)
'I projectile vomited out of my nose': Ed recalled feeling under 'pressure' to impress Taylor and a group of her fans that witnessed him take on the eating challenge (pictured in 2016)
'We went there, and they had this ice cream eating competition called the Big Kahuna Challenge and at this point, I was like I can do this, I know I can do this, and it was something crazy like two litres of ice cream and I was like I can do that.
'I'm there with Taylor and my brother and they bring this ice cream out but you have to add toppings and I stupidly said gummy bears, which are going to fill you up so I start eating this thing and I get halfway through and go 'I am killing this' and because it's Taylor lots of fans started turning up so in the end there
