Bunnie Xo's memoir framed her IVF journey as a spiritual mission—to be 'a voice for those women who are going through this process.' Her representatives have stayed quiet, letting the book speak for itself while she processes the divorce with grace.
Insiders close to the couple say the split blindsided Bunnie despite Jelly Roll citing 'irreconcilable differences' on May 18. A moving truck at their Tennessee home weeks later suggests someone was already planning an exit—and fast.
Jelly Roll filed for divorce on May 18, 2026 in Williamson County, Tennessee, citing 'irreconcilable differences.' Bunnie's memoir 'Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic' was published February 2026. The couple began their IVF journey in 2019.
The timing is brutal—Jelly Roll wanted a divorce while his wife was prepping for fertility treatments. Whatever 'irreconcilable differences' killed this marriage, they clearly mattered more than the twins they were trying to conceive.
Just weeks after Bunnie Xo revealed she and Jelly Roll were finally ready to start a family via IVF—with a surrogate lined up and stims on the horizon—the country star dropped divorce papers. The timing is devastating, and the receipts tell a ugly story. Jelly Roll filed for divorce from his wife of nearly 10 years on May 18 in Williamson County, Tennessee, according to court documents obtained by Page Six.
He cited 'irreconcilable differences' as the reason for the split. But here's where it gets messy: Bunnie had already gone public with their fertility journey months earlier, detailing their plans to try for twins using her eggs and his sperm. In her memoir "Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic," published in February 2026, Bunnie—who turns 46 this year—wrote that the couple found a surrogate and she was preparing to begin IVF stims.
'Now that we're finally stable financially and somewhat emotionally after all the healing we've done over this decade together, we're talking about the future—including growing our family,' she penned in the book. The couple had been on this fertility journey since 2019. Bunnie's path to IVF wasn't a simple choice.
She detailed traumatic pregnancy experiences that 'almost killed her,' including multiple abortions when she was younger and two ectopic pregnancies—one at age 16 where she claimed her doctor 'messed something up.' 'I genuinely think that having those abortions when I was younger, God's putting me through this again so that I can be a voice for those women who are going through this process,' she told People in January. 'And it is one of the hardest things I've ever had to go through.' The divorce filing came amid mounting signs of trouble at their Tennessee compound.
A moving truck was recently spotted outside their shared residence, though it's unclear whose belongings were being moved from the marital home. Bunnie has responded with cryptic social media posts—sharing thoughts about 'getting her sparkle back,' women's intuition, and even shading her 'trash' exes. She's 46.
He's 41. They've been married since around 2016-2017, and she served as stepmother to his two children: daughter Bailee Ann, now 18, and son Noah Buddy, now 9. The optics are brutal for Jelly Roll, who pursued fatherhood with Bunnie publicly while apparently already planning his exit. Whether the fertility stress broke them or something else triggered the split, one thing's certain: they were trying to build a family while their marriage was quietly crumbling.
