How man whose family eat raw liver and testicles met his 'soulmate' Liver Queen

The man whose entire family gorges on raw offal has explained how he managed to meet his 'soulmate'.

If you haven't heard of Brian Johnson, you'll probably recognize him as the infamous 'Liver King,' a half-naked fitness influencer from Texas who shot to viral fame for his extremely unusual way of life.

Earlier this week, Untold: The Liver King dropped on Netflix, where we've gained a somewhat disturbing glimpse into Brian and his family's primitive way of living.

Describing himself as the 'CEO of the ancestral lifestyle,' the 70-minute documentary conveys the rise (and demise) of The Liver King as it showcases old clips of him preaching his 'Nine Ancestral Tenets' to his then rapidly-growing flock of disciples - up until the 'steroids scandal' exposed him as a liar.

Anyway, Brian and his family say they still follow the rules, which include sleeping on the floor, walking around barefoot, plunging in cold water, and eating a strict diet of fertilized eggs and bovine organs, raw, all because Brian alleged the carnivore diet - and liver in particular - helped cure his sickly sons, Rad Ical and Stryker.

Who are the Liver King and Queen?

However, it wasn't just Brian who apparently delights in the raw-meat diet, as exhibited in one scene viewers called 'stomach churningly gross' as the family-of-four gunned down a bull and promptly feasted from its insides right there and then.

Brian ate nothing but raw meat for 15 years (Netflix)

His wife, Bozena 'Barbara', who has the title The Liver Queen, was also seen chowing down on beef testicles, which she said she eats three times a day, topped with hot sauce, in the doc, while making several of her own rather outlandish claims, like painkillers being bad for you.

She's stuck by Brian through thick and thin for the past two decades, and it certainly seems like a match made in heaven which has everyone wondering, how on Earth did these two meet?

How did the Liver King meet the Liver Queen?

Before the pair met, Brian and Barbara, formerly a dentist, seemingly had pretty normal lives and just so happened to meet by chance while on a snowboarding trip in 2004, GQ reports.

Brian said it was love at first sight, later telling The Iced Coffee Hour podcast in 2022: "I’d never been in a real serious relationship in my life. Then I met Liver Queen. I knew the minute I met her that she was my soul mate."

He added: "I mean as soon as we got into the chairlift and I saw her face and I looked into her eyes, I could feel I knew this. So, we got engaged in like six or seven weeks. We got married a couple of months after that. That was 18 years ago.”

Barbara has been an advocate of the lifestyle and stuck by Brian throughout it all (Instagram/theliverqueen)

However, Barbara apparently took a little persuading to his advances, saying how she 'didn't give [him] the time of day' and tried to keep on snowboarding.

"Then I caught her in the lift line," Brian continued." I said, ‘I know this mountain. Let me show you around.'"

They went on to marry within six months of that meeting in Nevis, West Indies.

Who are the Liver King and Queen's children?

Stryker came along a little over a year after the pair tied the knot, followed by now 16-year-old Rad Ical.

In 2023, Barbara shared some insight into her son's various activities, revealing the boys are homeschooled but taught an array of skills, like self-defense as well as art.

The fitness influencer was exposed in a scandal in 2022 (Netflix)

She penned: "As a mother of two teenage boys, watching @strykerthebarbarian & @liverboyrad grow and learn new skills is one of the most rewarding parts of my daily routine... From self-defense to art classes, academics to farm work...we definitely go the extra mile to ensure that our boys are competent and well-rounded as they blossom into adulthood."

Unsurprisingly, both have taken to the lifestyle pretty well too, with the pair filming themselves eating raw eggs while shunning Oreos and likewise sleeping on the floor, which they say is something to do with 'radiation' like Chernobyl.

How did The Liver King and the Liver Queen start eating raw meat?

Apparently, the kids struggled with allergies, being in and out of hospital for anaphylactic shock, which is what started the Johnson to reassess their diet.

"My kids are dying," Brian recalled in the Netflix show. "And there's no solution to the problem. We kept going to doctors. Almost everything they told us to do, okay, we did it. Well, nothing just worked."

Desperate for answers, Brian said that's when he read up about Mark Sisson's ancestral way of living which resonated with him so much that Barbara cleared out the pantry and the family kick-started their diet of bone broth, liver, raw eggs and meat straight away... And the rest is history.

“The ancestral lifestyle worked,” Brian added. “That’ll make you believe in something.”

They met in 2004 - and were engaged weeks later (Instagram/liverking)

What has the Liver Queen said about their lifestyle?

Barbara is a keen advocate for both her husband and their rather bizarre lifestyle, agreeing that the change in diet changed 'everything' for her kids' health - and her own.

She claimed she delights in eating raw testicles for breakfast, lunch and dinner every day, stating that the beef balls keep her hormones 'healthy and balanced.'

In another arguably concerning clip - shortly after the bull incident - Brian and Barbara shared a giggle about the fact CPS (child protection services) were called on them for their lifestyle.

However, Brian shrugged it off, claiming 'real child abuse' is going to Chick-Fil-A or giving them candy.

"The most brutal possible f***ing thing I think you could do is go to the grocery store, go to Burger King, that’s horrific," Brian added.

The family still stand by the diet (Instagram/liverking)

Meanwhile, the former dentist has turned to beauty influencing, now running her own animal-based skincare company, Krowa, which is of course laden in edible ingredients like beef tallow.

On the website, she writes: "I soon realized that what we put ON our bodies was equally vital as what we put IN them. Naturally, I took matters into my own hands and crafted skincare using tallow, just as our wise ancestors once did and just as many primitive culture tribes do to date.”

So, it's fair to say she's on board with the whole thing - clarifying in the documentary: "There’s people out there that say they do this, but they don’t really do it. It’s just for the social media. But this is our life.”