Sam Asghari rose to worldwide fame when he became the official partner of pop legend Britney Spears. However, his life before the artist looked very different – and so did he himself.
Britney Spears’ estranged husband is handsome these days, very athletic and is establishing himself more and more in the film business. But that was not always so. Before Sam Asghari met the well-known pop singer, there was a time when you would hardly recognize him these days.
Sam, actually Hesam, Asghari came to the USA with his family at the age of 12. The youngest of four children was born in Tehran, Iran. Until then, he grew up as a baby with three older sisters. The news portal “Daily Mail” reports that Asghari first learned English in America. He attended high school, where he took drama classes and played football, among other things. The talent for playing football also accompanied the Iranian at college.
When his college football career ended after just one year, Asghari enrolled in LA for a law degree. At the time, he had to work three jobs on the side to support himself. He worked as a clerk at Best Buy, as a sales rep at Gold’s Gym, and as a nightclub bouncer.
Sam Asghari loved fast food
At that time, Sam Asghari ate a lot of junk food. He is said to have weighed in at around 130 kilos. On Instagram, the Spears husband posted pictures showing him now and then. In the caption, he describes his love of cheesecake and fast food at the time: “The anticipation of Taco Tuesday on Monday night, the butterflies, and the feeling of jitters felt like being a pro athlete before game days. So I decided to have taco every day -Tuesday and of course I gained a lot of weight.”
One day, just before he was about to become truly “obese,” he says, Sam Asghari decided to drastically change his life. In an interview with the sports magazine Men’s Health, he said: “I ate Doritos for breakfast, drank fast food, sugar, sweets, no protein, lots of carbohydrates and sugary sodas. My diet was extremely terrible. The stress and the Fear of not achieving anything [im Leben]caused me to become depressed.”
With motivational words and his own story he turned to his followers: “I testify that tireless, hard work will get you to the moon if you want it and I tend to work even harder”. In 2013 his transformation began. His hard work on his diet and physique led the now 29-year-old to modeling jobs. He only ate what he had to, with a lot of discipline, not what gave him pleasure: “I didn’t eat for pleasure. My food is now for nourishment and survival.”
His teeth had also suffered from his poor diet. His dentist Dr. Kam Kamangar posted the before and after comparison of Sam Asghari’s teeth on Instagram:
Britney Spears wasn’t his first known girlfriend
It paid off. Even before Britney Spears, the model dated an American singer named Mayra Verónica. She is 13 years older than the Iranian, as is Britney Spears, who is 12 years older than Asghari. In 2016 the time had come. Asghari landed a small role in the filming of Britney Spears’ “Slumber Party” music video. That’s how he met his future wife, Britney Spears.
Due to Britney Spears’ longstanding guardianship of her father, it was not possible for the couple to marry for a long time. They then caught up on this after the end (2021) in 2022. Since then, his notoriety has skyrocketed. Over time, he was able to establish himself as a personal trainer and later even with smaller roles as an actor in Hollywood. However, he filed for divorce last week. “Irreconcilable differences” he gave as the reason.
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