From IVF Dreams to Divorce: Inside Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo's Heartbreaking Split

Sometimes the most public journeys end in the most private pain.

For over a year, Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo invited the world into one of life’s most intimate struggles: their fertility journey. They opened up about IVF plans, surrogacy decisions, and the emotional toll of trying to expand their family. In June 2024, Jelly Roll announced on the Bussin’With the Boys podcast that he and his wife were pursuing IVF with a surrogate. What started as a hopeful chapter became something fans followed closely across podcasts, social media, and interviews. By June 2025, Bunnie celebrated a major milestone, posting that they’d received positive news after five months of waiting. It felt like their story was heading toward a happy ending.

Then came May 2026, and everything changed. Jelly Roll filed for divorce, listing May 9, 2026 as their separation date and citing irreconcilable differences. The couple, who married in August 2016 and renewed their vows in 2023, had nearly a decade together. What makes this split particularly difficult to process is the timing—just months after they were celebrating fertility victories and Bunnie was publicly expressing her excitement about finally becoming a mother.

Bunnie had been remarkably candid about why she chose surrogacy. In a July 2024 episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast, she explained that after accomplishing so much in her life, raising a baby felt like the final frontier. More importantly, she prioritized her mental health, noting her history of pregnancy loss and ectopic pregnancies, along with concerns about hormonal shifts triggering her anxiety.“I am not mentally well enough to let my hormones get out of whack,”she said at the time. It was a vulnerable admission that resonated with many women facing similar decisions.

What made Bunnie feel ready for motherhood wasn’t a biological clock—it was watching herself raise Jelly Roll’s daughter, Bailee Ann. In January 2026, just months before the split became public, she told Us Weekly that raising Bailee had been her“run-through”to prove she could do this. She’d feared repeating cycles of trauma from her own childhood, but stepping into the mom role showed her she could actually“crush this.”She even mentioned adoption as a backup plan and expressed excitement about doing it all with her husband.

Now that marriage is over. The fertility journey they documented so openly—the struggles, the waiting, the small victories—becomes a footnote to a larger story about irreconcilable differences. It’s a stark reminder that sharing your deepest hopes publicly doesn’t guarantee they’ll come true, and that sometimes the people we think we’re building futures with are building separate ones instead. The road to parenthood for Jelly Roll and Bunnie will now look entirely different than either of them imagined.