14 DAY TRIAL // Late last month, Billboard unveiled its latest cover, featuring rocker Bret Michaels in a bandana and well-placed captions to hide his modesty. Speaking of his incredibly ripped abs, Bret has this to say: no food and plenty of sit-ups.
As we also noted at the time, for a guy who spent most of his year either in hospitals or on tour, Bret rocked some incredibly ripped abs for the cover of the magazine.
It wasn’t that big a deal, the rocker explains for E! Online, saying he didn’t eat anything for an entire day and did lots of sit-ups before starting to shoot for the cover.
“I said, ‘Listen, I have two requests – good lighting and a warm room. That’s all I’m asking for’,” the rocker reveals for E!.
Since he had zero clothes on at the time they shot the cover, neither of these demands seems absurd – far from it, actually.
“If I’m walking out with it all [expletive]-ing hanging out there for the world to see then, well, I need good lighting and a warm room,” Bret further says.
As for those abs that got everybody talking, there was some cheating to making them look this good.
“I didn’t eat for a day and I did about 2,000 sit-ups,” Michaels reveals.
In the same interview with E!, Michaels also talks about other, more pressing matters than how he managed to get his abs to look so good in the cover photo of the magazine.
In January, for instance, he’s scheduled to go under the knife for the hole in his heart and, while he’s trying really hard to maintain a positive outlook, he does feel scared as well.
“I’m going in there thinking very positively that it’s going to be great and I’m going to feel a whole lot better,” Michaels says of the upcoming surgery.
Still, he’s not oblivious to the fact that, at the end of the day, this is still heart surgery.
“I’d be lying to say that somewhere in my subconscious there’s not a little bit of gulling. When they’re going through your body to operate on your heart, it’s going to hit you somewhere that they’re toying with the ticker. There’s definitely a little fear in there somewhere,” the rocker explains.