Jelly Roll’s wife, Bunnie Xo, details their challenging sex life before he lost weight: ‘He was so big’
Bunnie Xo shared that while she and husband Jelly Roll “always had a sex life,” “there were mountains and valleys [they] had to go through — especially when he was so big.”
The podcaster told Us weekly in an interview published Saturday that she loves the Grammy winner’s new “excitement and his new zest for life.”
“It’s so childlike and just giddy,” gushed Bunnie, 46, “just seeing him get to be the man that I always saw that he was.”
The “Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic” author elaborated, “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, who tied the knot with Bunnie Xo in 2016, also got candid about how being overweight affected his sex life back in December.
“My sex life was horrible,” the 41-year-old recalled while on “The Joe Rogan Experience” at the time. “I couldn’t even get aroused, I was so big.”
Jelly Roll made it clear that his wife was not the issue.
“Dude, I married a f–king big-tittied, blond, beautiful woman, you know what I mean?” he stated. “I married the kind of woman that makes you smile when you cry.”
The artist quipped that he was “having to play Twister to have sex.”
“Left foot here, right foot on the X,” Jelly Roll joked. “Are we in there yet? Tell me if you feel something.”
“I mean, it was bad,” he admitted.
Jelly Roll went on to describe how his “addiction” and weight gain affected his family.
“I realized that in addiction, the family will kind of cater to the addict,” he divulged. “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 realized then how much my addiction was hurting this family,” added the superstar.
Jelly Roll previously weighed 550 pounds at his heaviest and recalled feeling like a “zombie” because of it.
“I’m sorry it took so long,” he said to Bunnie about not starting his weight-loss journey sooner, while on her “Dumb Blonde” podcast in 2024. “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.”
Jelly Roll explained to Men’s Health last month why he decided not to use GLP-1s to help him 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.”
Going from over 500 pounds to 265 has drastically improved the hitmaker’s life.
“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. “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!’”