Bunnie Xo says ‘real marriage’ means choosing Jelly Roll each day. Even after his affair.

Bunnie Xo says ‘real marriage’ means choosing Jelly Roll each day. Even after his affair.

“I’m not yanking on shriveled-up cow balls,” Bunnie Xo says.

Oh, the locations our dialog goes after we sync as much as talk about the Dumb Blonde podcast host’s memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, out now.

Bunnie’s multitasking — she’s in the center of a two-hour type becoming — however has me belly-laughing about life on her 500-acre Nashville-area farm with husband Jelly Roll. More particularly, the time they castrated their bull, Crunch. It concerned wrapping wire round the bull’s testicles, then — after they didn’t naturally fall off — twisting off the “stiff leather satchel.”

Ultimately, Bunnie (real title: Alisa DeFord) discovered the process so “disgusting” she punted it to her best good friend. She did, however, get rid of the leftover components. Where? “I threw them into the freaking forest,” says the 46-year-old.

Her experience with farm life supplies levity to a deeper dialog about a life that has, frankly, been terrible at instances. She had an abusive childhood. Her first profession was in intercourse work. There was relationship abuse. Addiction. Arrests. Pregnancy loss. Infertility. Depression. Suicidal ideation.

“I didn’t want to sugarcoat stuff,” says Bunnie, who definitely doesn’t in her memoir. “Where’s the lesson in that? I want people to read it and look at it as: She was a terrible human. She admits to it. But she doesn’t stay in it. She went on this journey of making herself better.”

She doesn’t spare herself in the telling — or anybody else for that matter.

“If people wanted me to talk better about them, then they should have treated me better,” she says. “I’m not saying I’m a victim. I’m not saying I didn’t treat people terribly myself, but at least I admit to it.”

That bluntness defines the autobiography — and, because it turns out, her marriage.

Bunnie met Jelly Roll (real title: Jason DeFord) at a Moonshine Bandits live performance in 2015. Neither of them was the individual they’re today. She was a high-end name woman. He had his personal historical past: After stints in jail for aggravated theft and drug dealing, among other prices, he was attempting to launch a singing profession.

Bunnie Xo was supported by Jelly Roll on her Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic ebook tour cease in Nashville on Feb. 22, 2026.

(John Shearer by way of Getty Images)

He was already in a development mindset, though. The first time Bunnie tried to sleep with him, he resisted, insisting they first talk about their long-term objectives, which they sealed with a pinky promise. She says he was never judgmental of her career, particularly after studying how a lot she was paid. (Per the ebook: $1,000 for dinner; something intimate beginning at $5,000.)

Bunnie continued her intercourse work after they eloped in Las Vegas in 2016 because it paid the payments. She retired from being a name woman in 2020, shifting to OnlyFans instead, the place she made her first million. She formally stop all intercourse work in 2022, because of the success of her podcast — to not point out Jelly Roll’s rise in nation music.

I ask how they set boundaries round her intercourse work after they had been married.

“On the street, there are different sets of rules than there are in real life — or ‘square’ life,” Bunnie says. “It was always understood between us that it was just a job. I never mixed business with pleasure. It was like an acting job.”

For them, it was about autonomy, not secrecy.

“My husband never put stipulations on me,” she says. “That’s one thing I’ve loved about [him]. He’s never tried to change me, and I’ve never tried to change him. We just let each other evolve — and ended up wanting to be better humans for each other.”

It doesn’t imply their relationship is ideal.

She writes about feeling damaged after discovering “J,” as she calls him, had a 10-month affair early of their marriage. Their marriage wasn’t undone by the intercourse: While they don’t have an open marriage, it’s what she describes as “free,” which may contain other women — but it surely was rocked by his dishonesty about it.

“Everybody’s always quick to say, ‘Oh, I would have left,’” says Bunnie, who was beforehand married two other instances. “That’s easy to say. Was it wrong what he did? Absolutely. But I’m happy that situation happened because it was another catalyst in our fairy tale — of moving forward, of getting through, of learning how to choose each other.”

She provides, “Because real marriage is waking up and choosing that person. Even when they get on your nerves. Even when you don’t feel like you’re in love with that person. You are still waking up day after day, choosing that person.”

Bunnie compares her arc — from Las Vegas-based escort to Hollywood crimson carpets — to the 1990 movie Pretty Woman, albeit along with her personal revision.

“Pretty Woman was this beautiful fairy tale of a working girl who finds a man who saves her,” she says. “My story is more about me. I found a great dude, and we saved ourselves. We changed together. We grew together. Parts of my book weren’t always beautiful, but in the end, we do get the happy ending.”

That transparency, she believes, is why followers root for them.

“There’s always going to be naysayers and trolls, but the world has been so accepting,” she says. “I think it’s because we have been 100% honest since the beginning. There weren’t any gotcha moments. Anything that anybody knows about my husband and me, we have told them. Whether they used it as ammo [or not], they heard everything from us. It was never a surprise.”

Still, success hasn’t erased self-doubt. I ask if she’s had any “You’re obviously in the wrong place” moments like Julia Roberts’s Pretty Woman character did.

“My girlfriends and I went to Rodeo [Drive] to meet my husband the other day,” she says. “[He] can walk into any high-fashion store in sweats and a T-shirt … and nobody has an issue with it. But we had just left the gym and, I don’t know, I felt so out of place. I think I have more imposter syndrome than anything. It’s hard for me to rub shoulders with people, because I’m just like, How am I even here?”

The couple at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 1, the place Jelly Roll gained Best Contemporary Country Album. In his speech, he said he would have been “dead or in jail” if it weren’t for Bunnie.

(Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Marrying Jelly Roll also made Bunnie a mom to his daughter, Bailee, 17; they’ve full custody of the teen. (Jelly Roll also has a son, Noah, 9, whom they chorus from discussing publicly.) The couple has been attempting to develop their household by means of IVF. They already have a surrogate and hope to have twins.

She says present process IVF has “brought me closer to God. It has taught me to lean on God and trust the process — that this life is a journey and everything’s on God’s watch, not ours.”

While she as soon as explored occult practices, such as having witches carry out spells for her, “as I got into this IVF journey, it really turned me away from all of that,” she says. “When I get up in the morning, I speak to God. I just speak to him like he is my homie, because I actually really feel like Jesus is a cool dude.”

She’s defining that relationship in her own way, as she tends to do.

“I don’t believe in organized religion,” Bunnie explains. “I’m still on my journey with a church. I don’t speak about this very publicly. I don’t like the way some churches are run and how the people in the congregation act with each other. That doesn’t mean that every church is like that, but I think you can love God and have fellowship with [him] in your house [and through] your words and your actions in the world. There’s more to having a relationship with God than sitting in a church.”

Faith anchors the couple of their total glow-up that has been years in the making: Her rising platform with Dumb Blonde and this ebook. His current Grammy win and concentrate on health. They’re healthy. Hopeful. Intentional.

“We’ve never been here,” she says. “We’re excited. This is what we sat down and dreamt about the first night we were together — our five-year plan. We’re like: ‘What’s next?’ Anytime something happens, we just look at each other, like little kids, going, ‘Are you kidding me? This is crazy. What’s next?’”

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