Bunnie Xo reacted to fans saying her husband, Jelly Roll, has gotten “so hot” since he lost more than 200 pounds.
“[People say], ‘Girl, your man is so hot now that he’s lost all that weight,’” the influencer, 45, began in a TikTok video on Saturday, September 27. “Is he? Because he’s always had the same face. He’s always had the same heart. He’s always had the same soul.”
She went on, “I think the most appropriate thing here to say is that he looks so much healthier now that he has lost weight.”
Bunnie Xo (real name Alyssa DeFord) encouraged her followers to “stop living in a Shallow Hall world,” referencing the 2001 movie starring Jack Black as a sexist man who was put under a spell to only see women’s inner-beauty.
“You know what? You might miss out on the best love of your life by judging somebody by their weight,” she concluded.
In an August TikTok video, Bunnie Xo supported her husband by playfully body-slamming the musician (real name Jason Bradley DeFord) against a wall to test out his weight loss.
“When you have to check and make sure he’s still your squish after all the weight loss,” Bunnie wrote over the clip and added the sweet caption, “Bestie #jellyandbunnie.”
Jelly Roll, 40, addressed his weight loss journey in April, revealing that he’d “started at 540 pounds” and was at “357 pounds [as of] this morning.”
“I’m gonna lose another 100 pounds,” he told host Pat McAfee during the Big Night AHT live show.
Jelly Roll in September 2025. Jim Dyson/Getty Images
He previously told People in April 2024 that his fitness regiment included walking “three miles a day, four to six days a week,” plus “20 to 30 minutes in the sauna” and “6 minutes in the cold plunge.”
“If I feel this good down this weight, man, I can only imagine what I’m going to feel like by the time I go on tour,” he said at the time.
Meanwhile, Bunnie Xo opened up on her “Dumb Blonde” podcast in August about why she hasn’t made many public appearances with her husband recently.
“Someone said the other day, ‘They used to always be together, and now you never see them together,’” the podcast host told listeners. “I’m like, ‘Do you guys not know that for the past six months [that] I’ve been trying to make a baby?’”
She pointed out that Jelly Roll has to “work to f***ing bring home the bacon” — which often involves touring and recording all across the world — while she has the “luxury of working from home.”
“He doesn’t [have that luxury],” she added. “He has to make appearances, but I literally have been on IVF meds for f***ing six months and going through heartbreak and f***ing so much s*** … That’s why you haven’t seen me [because] mama’s about to pop out. I gotta remind them. I might even do a sexy photoshoot and piss off all the f***ing [haters].”
Jelly Roll and Bunnie Xo have been married since 2016. The Grammy Award nominee is also a father of two children from previous relationships.
The “Save Me” artist has had a whirlwind month, having performed with tourmate Post Malone at the 2025 MTV Video Music Awards via satellite from Hanover, Germany, on September 7 and then meeting Pope Leo XIV ahead of a Vatican City concert on September 13.
