Bunnie Xo offered unfiltered insight into how her sex life with husband Jelly Roll improved after his weight loss journey.
“We always had a sex life, but there were mountains and valleys that we had to go through — especially when he was so big,” Bunnie Xo, 46, exclusively told Us Weekly about her memoir, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, which is out Tuesday, February 17.
Bunnie Xo noted that she loves Jelly Roll’s “excitement and his new zest for life,” adding, “It’s so childlike and just giddy — just seeing him get to be the man that I always saw that he was.”
She continued: “Even when he was 500 pounds, this dude was an agile, big guy. I’m like, ‘You are athletic under that meat suit.’ Now that he has the weight off of him, he just gets to be who I always knew that he was, and I think it’s brought a new sense of happiness to him. Any time he’s happy, I’m happy.”
Jelly Roll, 41, who has been married to Bunnie Xo since 2016, recently explained why he didn’t use GLP-1s before losing nearly 300 pounds.
“I just remember everyone telling me GLP-1s, or taking the Ozempic or the Mounjaro, ‘Listen, it’s gonna hurt your stomach a little bit,’” he told Men’s Health last month. “I’ve treated my body so bad, I can’t believe God’s gave me this voice for this long. I didn’t deserve it. I literally didn’t do it out of fear.”
The country singer revealed he went from 540 pounds down to 265 pounds. Since then, Jelly Roll has thrived as his mental health has improved with the change.
“I was so fat that there came a moment in life that my wife and I had to put two queen beds beside each other because we couldn’t fit in a king bed anymore, I was just all over,” he recalled about how his weight loss “dramatically” changed his marriage. “Now it’s a totally different thing. I’m chasing her around the house. I’m like a teenage kid again! I’m like the Pink Panther — I bust out of every corner. And she opens the cabinet and I go, ‘Hi!’”
Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll’s marriage ups and downs are addressed in her upcoming memoir.
“I am very vocal online and I have [my ‘Dumb Blonde’ podcast] where I have people tell their stories. But the crazy thing is that nobody really knows my life story. They know bits and pieces that I’ve allowed them to know, but nobody knows the full story,” she told Us. “It was very cathartic looking back and seeing all that I had overcome. But I never stopped to really think about it. It was really awesome to be able to look back and be like, ‘Man, I made it through this.’ It was definitely therapeutic and cathartic.”
Before Stripped Down‘s release, Bunnie Xo gave her husband an early copy.
“He’s reading it now. As I was writing the chapters, I would tell him, ‘Do you want me to send the book to you?’ And he’s like, ‘No, I just want to read it when it comes out. Tell your truth.’ My husband has never stifled my creativity,” she gushed. “That’s one thing I love about my husband. He’s been my No. 1 supporter.”
Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic is out Tuesday, February 17.
