In June 2024, Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo announced their plans to grow their family using in vitro fertilization (IVF).
“My wife and I are talking about having a baby,” the singer revealed during an episode of the Bussin’ with the Boys podcast. “It really made me realize at almost 40, I was like, that means I got to live to at least 60 – I got to see this kid into college. My plan was never to be 60; it was to be like 55… Now I’m like, well, I’d like to see my 60s, you know what I mean.”
Bunnie shared a clip from the podcast with a caption stating, “Papabear dropped a surprise on this pod today. We had planned on doing this privately, but decided our IVF journey needed to be shared because we’ve always been so open. w/ all odds stacked against us, it’s already been hard & we have only just begun.”
In a separate post, Bunnie mentioned that they were consulting with IVF specialists and “exploring all [their] options to add to [their] family.”
She also posted the words, “God Willing- Baby DeFord 2026,” as a hopeful note.
In advance of her book’s release, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic, Bunnie told People that her path to motherhood had been difficult.
“I don’t know if it’s that I did or if I didn’t choose it, but I think before we come here, we choose our life path, and we yearn for the pain that we go through,” she expressed. “And I genuinely think that having those abortions when I was younger [and] the journey that I’m going on now with IVF [is] God’s putting me through this again, so that I can be a voice for those women who are going through this process.”
Bunnie further explained, “And there are women out there that are doing 10 to 15 egg retrievals. They are freaking warriors. My hat goes off to these women, and they’re just such a cool community. So God is… Everything happens for a reason. It always comes around full circle.”
Bunnie disclosed in her memoir, which came out months before Jelly filed for divorce, that she had previously experienced abortions and two ectopic pregnancies.
