Bunnie Xo’s Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic offers a vivid, unflinching glimpse of her marriage to country star Jelly Roll.  Out now, the book displays two people shaped by addiction, abuse and parenting struggles who attempted to love, heal and rebuild under the intense scrutiny of fandom and fame.

A rocky beginning and life on the road Bunnie, 46, says she met Jelly Roll (41) in 2015 while still involved with an abusive partner she refers to as "Karma." Their connection deepened after her ex was incarcerated. Jelly Roll’s calls about his daughter and his efforts to be a better father intrigued her and laid the groundwork for an uneven courtship. The pair eloped in Las Vegas in 2016 in a drug-fueled ceremony that left Bunnie waking up hungover and instantly doubting the impulsive decision to marry.

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Tour life brought further complexity. Jelly Roll invited Bunnie on the road with him, and she negotiated to continue her sex‑work career while traveling. In candid passages she describes a "whore tour" dynamic in which clients were met on the road for short sessions, while overnights (reportedly priced at around $20,000) were off limits. 

One striking anecdote recounts Jelly Roll initially refusing sex despite Bunnie’s advances – a moment she attributes to shyness, sobriety struggles and his attempt to set boundaries. He told her he didn’t want a one‑night mistake to ruin something and was buying time while he waited for his "whiskey d***" to return. This book foreshadows recurring clashes over sexual expectations, communication failures and unarticulated agreements that repeatedly strained the relationship.

Both partners entered sobriety by 2018, a turning point Bunnie frames as crucial but not curative. She repeatedly emphasizes that they carried "lifetimes of trauma" into the marriage, complicating their ability to maintain healthy love. At the core of the memoir are detailed accounts of Jelly Roll’s serial infidelities and the emotional fallout. Bunnie lays out a timeline of affairs, ongoing contact with exes, and a relational pattern in which the hitmaker had been accustomed to multiple simultaneous relationships. 

Bunnie writes candidly about the toll: shame, anger, erosion of trust and an episode when she nearly took her own life. That near‑suicidal moment underlines how close she came to collapse and gives the book its urgent mixture of confession and rescue. The couple briefly separated and planned a three‑month split. They ultimately reconciled, but Bunnie stresses that making peace with the affairs would take years.

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One of the memoir’s most harrowing chapters recounts rescuing Jelly Roll’s daughter, Bailee, from what Bunnie calls a "house of horrors." She describes discovering a malnourished 7‑year‑old who had been caring for other children, living with a registered sex offender and lacking a room of her own or regular contact with her biological mother. The child’s malnourishment caused surgical complications – a moment that intensified the emotional and logistical strain of parenting and helped precipitate Bunnie’s first break from the family when she moved out, overwhelmed by motherhood and sobriety.

Bunnie also clarifies the timeline around Jelly Roll’s son. The boy’s mother was in a long, toxic on‑again/off‑again relationship with J. The son was born a week before Bunnie and J married. While early relations with the child’s mother were tense, Bunnie now expresses respect for her role and emphasizes co‑parenting as a priority.

The memoir is blunt about reproductive pain, a traumatic abortion in the past, multiple pregnancy losses and the deep despair of a miscarriage that rekindled suicidal ideation. Those losses shaped the couple’s present choices. They have opted for IVF using Bunnie’s eggs and Jelly Roll’s sperm with a surrogate, hoping for twins. Bunnie portrays the IVF journey as an emotionally fraught, hopeful project after years of setbacks, custodial battles and recovery.

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Jelly Roll’s fanbase, known as the Bad Apples, have largely embraced the memoir. Many fans praise Bunnie’s candor and say the book humanizes the couple, turning tabloid headlines into a nuanced story of trauma, responsibility and repair. However, some critics and commentators have raised ethical questions. Some argue Bunnie’s explicit recounting of sex work, infidelities and the identities of people in their orbit risks sensationalizing trauma, complicating co‑parenting and exposing vulnerable parties. Others counter that frankness is a corrective to sanitized celebrity narratives and grants Bunnie agency over her story while situating Jelly Roll’s behavior within cycles of addiction and trauma.

Bottom line, Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic is a raw, messy, and often painful account of a modern marriage tested by fame, addiction and betrayal. It asks readers to hold accountability and compassion together – to condemn deceit while recognizing the complexity of trauma and recovery. For fans and skeptics alike, Bunnie Xo’s memoir provides an intimate look at what it takes to try to love and rebuild when both partners are deeply flawed but determined to move forward.