Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll could have called it quits, but that doesn’t mean their baby plans are also over.
Within the Thursday, June 18, episode of her “Dumb Blonde” podcast, Bunnie, 46, revealed that the exes are planning to proceed their fertility journey with the aim to begin a family — despite going their separate ways as a pair.
“You guys are going to be shocked to listen to 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 launched into an emotionally and physically grueling IVF journey in attempts to welcome a baby together.
Acknowledging that she and Jelly Roll are being “unconventional,” Bunnie further explained that they each are unwilling to offer 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 baby’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 identical thing.”
Bunnie continued, “We’re just going to lift little Nugget as one big completely happy family.”
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Prior to now, Bunnie has been candid in regards to 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 used to be because I’m doing these IVF journeys.”
Bunnie also spoke openly in regards to the pregnancy losses she and Jelly Roll suffered along the best way.
“J and I even have lost 4 embryos. We’ve had three transfers but we lost the 2 twins that we were going to attempt to have after which we lost the opposite two,” she said, describing the experience as “gutwrenching” and “so heartbreaking.”
Later within the podcast, Bunnie described Jelly Roll as her “best friend.” Bunnie said things between them just fell apart after they “served our purpose for one another” 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 continues to be amicable.
“Me and my wife are best friends. We’ll at all times be best friends. We just got off the phone earlier today,” he said on stage in Recent York on Thursday. “No one cheated on no one. She just did a complete podcast about it. You’ll be able to go watch it. Every word of it’s the reality.”
Earlier this week, Us Weekly confirmed that Jelly Roll quietly filed for divorce from Bunnie back in May.
In keeping with court documents obtained by Us, the country singer cited “irreconcilable differences” as the explanation 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.)