Jelly Roll and Wife Bunnie XO Reveal They're Undergoing IVF: 'Our Journey Needed to Be Shared'

• Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO are undergoing IVF
• The singer and rapper revealed on the Bussin' with the Boys podcast that he decided to work on his health to live longer
• Bunnie XO is stepmother to Jelly Roll's daughter, Bailee Ann, and son, Noah Buddy, from previous relationships

Jelly Roll and Bunnie XO are planning to expand their family,

On Tuesday, June 4, the 39-year-old singer and rapper appeared on the Bussin’ with the Boys podcast and revealed he decided to lose over 60 pounds so he could live longer to see kids grow — and keep up with any new additions.

“My wife and I are talking about having a baby, and it really made me realize that at almost 40, I was like, it means I got to live to at least 60. I got to see this kid into college,” said Jelly, who is dad to daughter Bailee Ann, 16, and son Noah Buddy, 7½, from previous relationships.

Speaking of Jerry Garcia, who died at age 53, he added, "I was young, so I was like, ’56 would be great for me! … It’s better than 27 when all the other stars died. It’s 27 or 56 in the celebrity world. Let me be 56.’ But now I’m like, ‘I’d like to see my 60s.’ You know what I mean? And that really lit it up.”

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Bunnie, whom the "Need a Favor" singer married in 2016, then shared the video of his interview on her Instagram page and revealed that they had decided to undergo in vitro fertilization (IVF).

"Papabear dropped a surprise on this pod today,” the podcast host wrote across the clip. “We had planned on doing this privately, but decided our ivf journey needed to be shared because we’ve always been so open.”

"And w/all odds stacked against us, it’s always been hard & we have only just begun,” Bunnie, 44, added with a watery-eyed emoji.

“God Willing- Baby DeFord 2026 💫 @bussinwtb,” Bunnie's caption read.

IVF is a medical process in which mature eggs, removed surgically from ovaries, are fertilized by sperm in a lab. After being allowed to age for a period of usually three to six days, one (or sometimes more) of the fertilized embryos, called blastocysts, is then transferred into the uterus, which will hopefully lead to implantation and a healthy pregnancy.

Jelly took part in his first 5K race in May. Ahead of the achievement, he told PEOPLE in April that he had lost 70-something pounds.

"I've been really kicking ass, man. I'm doing two to three miles a day, four to six days a week,” he said at the time. “I'm doing 20 to 30 minutes in the sauna, six minutes in a cold plunge every day. I'm eating healthy right now."

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Meanwhile, despite Bunnie not being the biological mother to the "Save Me" hitmaker's two children, she has loved them like her own.

In 2017, the couple were granted full custody of Bailee following her mother’s drug addiction. The teen also revealed in an episode of Bunnie’s Dumb Blonde podcast that she and her biological mother were working on their relationship amid the latter's road to recovery.

Fans also got to see Bunnie's bond with her husband’s son Noah when they made a TikTok video together before his seventh birthday in 2023.

“My name is Noah and my favorite color is red,” he told the camera.

Meanwhile, Jelly paid tribute to his wife for Mother's Day in 2020.

"It takes a special kind of woman to raise a kid that isn’t her child and still treat the child as if she was," he wrote on Instagram.