Bunnie XO has shared a candid confession about her sex life with husband Jelly Roll and how they navigated issues surrounding his size.
The country music star, 41, has been married to Alisa DeFord - better known as Bunnie XO - since 2016 and recently underwent a weight loss transformation, losing 130lb.
She revealed to Us Weekly that while they "always had a sex life", she admitted that "there were mountains and valleys [they] had to go through — especially when he was so big."
Bunnie, 46, added that since Jelly Roll - real name Jason Bradley DeFord - lost weight, he has regained a new "excitement and his new zest for life.
"It’s so childlike and just giddy. Just seeing him get to be the man that I always saw that he was."
She explained: "Even when he was 500 pounds (227kg), 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 had opened up about how being overweight had affected things in the bedroom, revealing on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast in December: "My sex life was horrible. I couldn’t even get aroused, I was so big.
"Dude, I married a f***ing big-tittied, blonde, beautiful woman, you know what I mean? I married the kind of woman that makes you smile when you cry."
He joked that he was "having to play Twister to have sex. Left foot here, right foot on the X. Are we in there yet? Tell me if you feel something. I mean, it was bad."
He added that his "addiction" and weight gain took its toll on his family, explaining: "I realised that in addiction, the family will kind of cater to the addict. It’s nature.
"Like if somebody in your family was a drug addict you would help with their kids, you would feel a need to help in their absence — it’s what we do as a family, it’s human nature.
"I realised then how much my addiction was hurting this family."
Jelly Roll revealed on Bunnie's Dumb Blonde podcast in 2024 that he was 550lbs (250kg) at his heaviest, and regretted waiting so long to begin his weight-loss journey.
"I’m sorry it took so long," he admitted. "I cannot believe I walked around like a 550-pound zombie for years. I even look back at the pictures, and I was just hollow."
Despite being a candidate to use weight-loss injections such as Ozempic or Mounjaro, he revealed to Men's Health in January that he chose not to go down this route to shed the weight.
"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 said. “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.”
He lost over 130lbs after finding his size impacted the fundamental parts of his daily life, explaining: "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.
"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!’"