Jana Kramer was very proud to buy herself a new G Wagon — and so was her 9-year-old daughter, Jolie.
“It was great, and you know, I felt so silly to share it, but we had talked about it on [my ‘Whine Down’] podcast,” Kramer, 41, exclusively told Us Weekly at the iHeart Radio Music Festival on Saturday, September 20. “I feel so silly showing a picture, like, I’m the least flashy person. I buy [from] Amazon. I mean, I have very [few] designer stuff. So, for me, it felt a little weird [to share].”
Seeing how excited Kramer’s social media fans and podcast cohosts were about the big-ticket purchase gave her “confidence” to publicly celebrate the occasion.
“Honestly, I wouldn’t have gotten it [if] it wasn’t for Allan [Russell, my husband],” she added. “I always saw it [and] I’d always be, like, ‘I really want that car, but I’m paying child support, I’m doing this, and I can’t do that.’”
Kramer was previously ordered to pay child support to ex-husband Mike Caussin following their 2021 divorce. Kramer — who shares Jolie and Jace, 6, with Caussin, 38 — later moved on with Russell, 44, and they wed in 2024 several months after welcoming son Roman.
“[Allan] goes, ‘Babe, stop, like you deserve it. You work your butt off like you just, you know, you should get it,’” Kramer told Us at the Las Vegas festival, which she attended with her husband. “There’s a message in there. It can be a G Wagon, it could be a watch, it could be a pair of shoes [or] it could be whatever. People work hard, they deserve to buy themselves things.”
According to Kramer, she was still wary about the purchase until she got Jolie’s reaction.
“I was, like, ‘Mommy’s really contemplating if I should do this or not,’” the One Tree Hill alum recalled. “And she’s, like, ‘Mommy, you should do it. You work so hard.’ Then, I picked her up [in the new car in] the carpool lane, and she screamed, like, ‘Mommy, you did it.’ That moment alone was the best.”
While Kramer has no regrets buying the lavish SUV, she still felt like she needed to “explain” the significance to her followers.
“I feel like I do because I grew up not affording groceries and having lights turned off and being negative in the bank account,” she recalled. “I’ve worked really hard, and I enjoy it, and I love it so much.”
With reporting by Carrie Roper
