How Jelly Roll's Incredible Wife Bunnie XO Has Loved Him for Years

Jelly Roll is married to Bunnie XO (real name Alyssa DeFord), a beloved model, podcast host, and social media personality with 6 million followers on TikTok and over 900K subscribers on YouTube as the self-described "Trailerpark Barbara Walters."

Bunnie XO, 44, launched her podcast Dumb Blonde in 2019 and has since garnered over 10 million listeners as she chats with her guests from everywhere about everything and anything. Celebrating seven seasons of weekly episodes, Bunnie XO thrives while touching base with everyone from musicians to clairvoyants. Her diverse guest lineup has included Mod Son, JWoww, Priscilla Block, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, and Brantley Gilbert.

According to her IMDb bio, Bunnie XO has modeled for several magazines and appeared on Playboy TV. She has also appeared in several of Jelly Roll's music videos, such as "Beautiful Disaster" and "All My Life," her husband's track with Falling in Reverse.

Bunnie XO and Jelly Roll also headline her YouTube series Meet the DeFords, a family vlog where the couple shares exciting updates from their lives in the entertainment industry. Jelly Roll's wife also regularly shares life and family updates on her social media pages. For example, in a TikTok posted in April 2024, Bunnie Xo revealed their private jet "stopped mid-air" and had to make an emergency landing on their way to the CMT Music Awards in Texas. Thankfully, they landed safely and made it to the award show in time. 

Jelly Roll met his wife Bunnie XO in 2015 while she was attending one of his concerts in Las Vegas at the Country Saloon. 

He spoke about the fateful performance during a December 2020 appearance on The Golden Hour podcast, revealing that he met Bunnie XO backstage at the show. However, she was in a relationship at the time, so the pair were initially just friends. But when Bunnie XO became single later on, she reached out to mutual friends so that she could reconnect — this time romantically — with Jelly Roll.

"I'm not going to act like I shot my shot. [Bunnie XO] kind of shot hers," Jelly Roll told the comedy podcast's hosts. Jelly Roll continued by explaining that he was living in a van at the time, and it was Bunnie XO who helped him get back on his feet financially and supported him through his burgeoning music career.

Jelly Roll proposed to Bunnie XO in August 2016 onstage at a Yelawolf and Deftones concert in Las Vegas.

"We got married kind of randomly," Jelly Roll told The Golden Hour hosts. Following their Las Vegas proposal, the lovebirds checked their clocks and realized they had just enough time to catch a quick courtroom Vegas wedding before midnight.

They've been married ever since.

In August 2023, seven years after their elopement, Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO returned to the same Las Vegas chapel where they first tied the knot to renew their vows. Bunnie XO took to Instagram to share a video of the ceremony, where the couple looked happier than ever. "Luckiest girl alive," she captioned the post. "Tonite [sic] was such a dream."

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Now happily married for nearly a decade, the country singer encourages others to stick to the classics when it comes to marital bliss: Communication.

"Somebody asked me what's the secret to our marriage the other day. I didn't even have to think about — it's simple — we are comfortable having uncomfortable conversations," Jelly Roll shared on Instagram in June 2020. "We have learn to laugh at the small sh*t, and above everything, we don't take anything too seriously. This woman is my backbone in life, she's beautiful, smart, witty, and you wouldn't believe how silly she really is."

Bunnie XO is the stepmother of Jelly Roll's daughter, Bailee Ann, from a previous relationship. The teen was born on May 22, 2008. Jelly Roll's family also includes a son named Noah, born in August 2016, to a woman with whom the singer had previously been involved.

In a June 2023 episode of the podcast Bussin' With The Boys, Jelly Roll revealed that Bunnie XO helped him get custody of Bailee, which he accomplished in 2017. The couple hadn't been together for more than a year, but she didn't hesitate to lend a hand when Jelly Roll needed it most, helping him find a condo and build a home fit for a family after he'd previously toured the country living in his car.

"I'll never forget, Bunnie looked at me, and — man, it makes me emotional — she said 'No matter what happens with us, I'm going to help you get the girl.' And I was like, man, what character, you know what I mean?"

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"It takes a special kind of woman to raise a kid that isn’t her child and still treat the child as if she was. Bunnie is that special woman outside of the social media, outside of the podcast, and all the business endeavors she does and helps me with; Bunnie is a beautiful soul," Jelly Roll shared in a May 2020 Facebook post. "She is kind, patient, and caring. Over the years watching her relationship with Bailee blossom into this beautiful mother daughter bond that it has become has been nothing short of magical."

Jelly Roll continued, "I have truly been blessed with the best partner I could’ve asked for in life. You are the epitome of a good mom and deserve more credit than anyone because you didn’t have to step up to the plate the way you did. You chose to step up, and man, you have knocked it out of the park."

In a June 2024 appearance on Bussin’ with the Boys, Jelly Roll revealed that the couple had started exploring IVF options in hopes of welcoming another little one to the family. A month following that announcement, Bunnie XO shared a clip from the podcast on Instagram with some additional context behind the couple's decision to update fans.

"We had planned on doing this privately, but decided our IVF journey needed to be shared because we've always been so open," Bunnie XO explained in a July 2024 episode of her Dumb Blonde podcast. "And with all odds stacked against us, it's always been hard and we have only just begun."

“We were going to keep it from the internet because of how the internet is; they love to ruin beautiful things,” she explained. "I thought about it, and I was like, ‘My husband is f*cking excited to have a kid with me. How cool is that? If he wants to f*cking scream it from the mountain tops, f*cking let him. It doesn’t matter how I feel about what other people think.”

Family became an even bigger priority to Jelly Roll and his wife after Bunnie XO went through a terrifying health scare. In an August 2024 episode of her podcast, Bunnie XO revealed that she'd been misdiagnosed with a brain aneurysm following an MRI she had requested to help find the cause of her frequent headaches. "I'm in a higher percentile of rupturing because my mom had one," Bunnie XO explained, adding that went the doctors found something on the scan, "I instantly just hit my knees and started praying. I bawled my eyes out. I cried so hard, I pulled a muscle in my neck. I cried for three days."

Ultimately, she shared that a vascular surgeon confirmed she did not actually have a brain aneurysm to worry about, but the experience gave her a greater appreciation for life and her family with Jelly Roll. "I just wanna tell you that it made me appreciate life so much," she said on her podcast. "Family and the people that you love and the people that you surround yourself with every day is all that f*cking matters, dude."