IT’S not just the female pop stars who are under pressure to keep fit and look good. Nick Carter of The Backstreet Boys lost nearly 20kg to get in shape for the release of the US boy band’s latest album, Unbreakable, and upcoming world tour.

“I was really unhealthy the last tour,” Carter says.

“I was really fat and disgusting. I never want to get to that again. People are watching you so you have to uphold your image to a certain extent.”

The 27-year-old weighed about 100kg at his heaviest, and says it took him six months to lose the weight.
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Backstreet Boy Howie Dorough is all grown up – and a husband. But the ex-teenthrob said he’s not too worried about breaking up any catfights between his new bride, Leigh Boniello, and his adoring fans now that Backstreet’s Back.

“You know Leigh’s been with us from the beginning,” said Dorough, who met his bride when she worked as the boy band’s Webmaster. “She knows what this business is all about and she loves it. She’s amazing.”

What’s more amazing is that eight years after their heyday, the aging Boys – Dorough, Brian Littrell, A.J. McLean and Nick Carter – can still draw a huge crowd of screaming, panting females (in the middle of a blizzard!) to the Boston Billiard Club. The mini-concert, for a keyed-up crowd of MIX 98.5 listeners, is part of the Kevin Richardson-less band’s push for its new album, “Unbreakable.”
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WHO would have thought the last men standing would be boys – Backstreet Boys?

*NSYNC got killed by Justin Timberlake’s desire to be alone, and Nick Lachey’s 98 Degrees was iced on the charts. Like the hit song says, “Backstreet’s Back” – this time with a new disc, “Unbreakable,” a charting single and the top slot at Friday’s Z-100 Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden.

Speaking to The Post, Nick Carter, the youngest of the Boys, at 27, bristles at even a mention of the word comeback. “Listen, we’re here, we haven’t gone anywhere. Our last album, ‘Never Gone’ [2005], went platinum, and we have a new record out now – that isn’t a comeback, that’s staying power.”
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Training our eye on Kentuckians out and about

LOUISVILLE –It was like a scene from 1999 Thursday night when Backstreet Boys visited Fourth Street Live.

The teenage girls still squealed.

The adult women still admired the group’s clean-cut good looks.

And a few men and boys still peppered the audience, unashamed of their love for BSB.

Backstreet was back, and that was more than all right for the 500 fans who came out to see the Boys.
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The Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter lost nearly 20 kilograms to get in shape for the release of the American boy band’s latest album, Unbreakable, and upcoming world tour.

“I was really unhealthy on the last tour,” Carter told Insider. “I was really fat and disgusting. I never want to get to that again.”

The 27-year-old weighed around 100kg at his heaviest and said it had taken him six months to get trim. He didn’t go on any special diets and simply ate healthier food and worked out at the gym. “I am feeling great. I look better. I feel better. I am ready to get out there and perform. I am so ready.”

Carter grew up in the public eye, joining the group when he was just 12. The group has sold more than 100 million albums and 15 million singles worldwide. Their hits include Quit Playing Games, As Long As You Love Me, I Want It That Way, Incomplete and Just Want You To Know.
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