Bunnie Xo is offering an update on where she and husband Jelly Roll stand when it comes to adding another child to their family.
On the Sunday, November 2, episode of her “Dumb Blonde” podcast, Bunnie Xo, 45, sat down with Maury Povich, who shared that he and wife Connie Chung also attempted to conceive a child years ago.
“We went through the same stuff that you and Jelly Roll have gone through,” Povich said. “We tried to get pregnant. I’m telling you, this is over 30 years ago. So Connie had to take time off from CBS and it became a big story that we were trying to get pregnant.”
Povich explained that he and Chung ended up adopting because they “couldn’t do it,” gushing that the choice was “the best.” Povich concluded that he knows what Bunnie Xo (real name Alyssa DeFord) and Jelly Roll, 40, have “gone through,” noting that it is “tough.”
“It is tough, but at the same time it’s like, you just put it in God’s hands. If it’s meant to be it’s meant to be. And if not, we can always adopt,” Bunnie Xo said. “I’m totally open to adoption too and so is my husband.”
Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll (real name Jason Bradley DeFord) tied the knot in 2016. She became a stepmom to the country singer’s two children: daughter Bailee, 17, and son Noah, 8, from previous relationships.
In 2024, Jelly Roll shared the pair’s plans to expand their family via in vitro fertilization during his appearance on the “Bussin’ With the Boys” podcast.
“We had planned on doing this privately, but decided our IVF journey needed to be shared because we’ve always been so open,” Bunnie said via Instagram after his announcement. “And all odds stacked against us, it’s already been hard (and) we have only just begun. We have been meeting (with) IVF doctors (and) exploring all our options to add to our family.”
Later that year, Bunnie Xo opened up about utilizing IVF with a surrogate.
“This journey with IVF, we sat down a couple months ago,” she said on an episode of her “Dumb Blonde” podcast at the time. “And I was just like, I feel like I’ve accomplished so much in my life. And the only thing that’s left is to raise a baby and garden. I’m in my baby mama (and) gardening era.”
She continued, “J was like … ‘I would love to have a baby with you.’ And that was not the response that I thought he would say. I was just like, ‘Wow really? Have you always felt like that?’ He was like, ‘Yeah, I will always have a baby with you. If you want to have a baby, cool. If you don’t, cool. Whatever you want to do.’ So now he’s, like, really excited about it.”
Bunnie Xo explained that they have seen a fertility specialist since 2019 but didn’t feel that they were ready until recently.
“We’re on the fence of having twins,” Bunnie Xo said. “We think we want to have twin boys. I’m not sure. We could have one, we could have two. We don’t know what we’re going to do yet. We don’t plan on implanting until February 2025.”
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