Jelly Roll shared a “weight loss update” after filing for divorce from wife Bunnie Xo.
The musician, 41, took to Instagram on Monday, June 15, to share a video of him trying protein powder. Jelly Roll explained that this is the first time he found a flavor he liked, which he compared to a “sweet treat” after mixing it with water and almond milk.
Jelly Roll’s social media post came hours before news broke that he filed for divorce. Us Weekly subsequently confirmed on Monday, June 15, that the country artist filed to end his marriage one month prior, submitting a divorce petition in Tennessee on May 18.
Before their split, Bunnie, 46, supported Jelly Roll on his weight loss journey.
“We always had a sex life, but there were mountains and valleys that we had to go through — especially when he was so big,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in January.
Bunnie noted that she loved Jelly Roll’s “excitement and his new zest for life,” adding, “It’s so childlike and just giddy — just seeing him get to be the man that I always saw that he was.”
She continued: “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, for his part, explained at the time why he didn’t use GLP-1s before losing nearly 300 pounds.
Jelly Roll has been on a mission to lose weight. “Next year when y’all see me you won’t recognize me,” the country star (real name Jason DeFord) said in an October 2024 Instagram video, revealing he’s lost more than 100 pounds. “I’m going to get under a pile of weights in a way that I never […]
“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 told Men’s Health that same month. “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.”
Jelly Roll revealed he went from 540 pounds down to 265 pounds. Since then, he found himself thriving as his mental health improved with the change.
“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.
Jelly Roll praised his weight loss for how it “dramatically” changed his marriage. “Now it’s a totally different thing,” he said. “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!’”
