Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll may have called it quits, but that doesn’t mean their baby plans are also over.
In the Thursday, June 18, episode of her “Dumb Blonde” podcast, Bunnie, 46, revealed that the exes are planning to continue their fertility journey with the aim to start a family — despite going their separate ways as a couple.
“You guys are going to be shocked to hear this but we’re still having a baby,” Bunnie said on the podcast.
Before filing for divorce after 10 years of marriage, Bunnie and Jelly Roll had embarked on an emotionally and physically grueling IVF journey in attempts to welcome a child together.
Acknowledging that she and Jelly Roll are being “unconventional,” Bunnie further explained that they both are unwilling to give up the dream of a baby.
“We’re still having a baby together, we’re going to coparent together,” Bunnie continued. “I’m so excited to live my life through a child’s eyes, which is why, with this baby journey, I’m not going to let it break me. And I’m not going to detour it. J has been so great about us still having a baby together and he wants the same thing.”
Bunnie continued, “We’re just going to raise little Nugget as one big happy family.”
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
In the past, Bunnie has been candid about the difficulties of going through IVF, and opened up again on Thursday’s podcast.
“It completely wrecked me. It wrecked me emotionally, spiritually, physically,” she admitted.
“It was so hard on me that for the past year-and-a-half, I became a shell of the person I was because I’m doing these IVF journeys.”
Bunnie also spoke openly about the pregnancy losses she and Jelly Roll suffered along the way.
“J and I have lost four embryos. We’ve had three transfers but we lost the two twins that we were going to try to have and then we lost the other two,” she said, describing the experience as “gutwrenching” and “so heartbreaking.”
Later in the podcast, Bunnie described Jelly Roll as her “best friend.” Bunnie said things between them just fell apart after they “served our purpose for each other” and claimed no infidelity caused the divorce.
For his part, Jelly Roll broke his silence on the pair’s marriage breakdown, also insisting their relationship is still amicable.
“Me and my wife are best friends. We will always be best friends. We just got off the phone earlier today,” he said on stage in New York on Thursday. “Nobody cheated on nobody. She just did a whole podcast about it. You can go watch it. Every word of it is the truth.”
Earlier this week, Us Weekly confirmed that Jelly Roll quietly filed for divorce from Bunnie back in May.
According to court documents obtained by Us, the country singer cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for the split, adding that the “parties are unable to live together successfully as Husband and Wife” any longer.
Jelly Roll is a father of two through previous relationships. The Grammy nominee shares daughter Bailee with ex-girlfriend Felicia Beckwith and son Noah Buddy, 9, with ex Melisa Ann Cowell. (During their marriage, Jelly Roll and Bunnie had primary custody of Bailee when she was a minor.)
