Bunnie Xo is sharing her sincere ideas on the emotional journey she and her husband Jelly Roll are on as they attempt to develop their household. The Dumb Blonde podcast host and stepmom of two opened up on a latest episode of her present throughout a dialog with Maury Povich, discussing fertility, household, and the unpredictable street to parenthood.
Povich mirrored on his personal expertise making an attempt to have a baby together with his spouse Connie Chung over 30 years in the past, saying “We went by way of the identical stuff that you just and Jelly Roll have gone by way of. We tried to get pregnant… It grew to become a giant story that we had been making an attempt.” He and Chung ultimately determined to undertake, a selection he says was “the perfect” they may’ve made.
Bunnie Xo, whose actual identify is Alisa DeFord, can relate to the challenges of making an attempt to begin a household. “It’s powerful,” she admitted. “However on the identical time, it is like, you simply put it in God’s fingers. If it is meant to be, it is meant to be. And if not, we will at all times undertake.” She added, “I am completely open to adoption too, and so is my husband.”
Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll have been vocal about their want to develop their household since tying the knot in 2016. Earlier this yr, she revealed that she had begun IVF remedies, sharing updates along with her followers on social media. “I am actually going by way of IVF remedies proper now — the hormones, the pictures, all that,” she stated in a March TikTok. “Simply in order that I can have slightly piece of my husband and me… so as to add to the opposite two lovely kids that now we have collectively.”
In June, she acquired some emotional information, writing alongside a tearful Instagram video, “If you simply obtained the decision you’ve been ready on for five months since this IVF journey began… All of the tears, the hopelessness & the battle, God lastly stated, ‘Right here.’”
Whereas Bunnie Xo stays hopeful, her newest replace reveals simply how advanced the method has been. Whether or not their subsequent chapter results in a child by way of IVF or adoption, one factor’s clear: Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll’s hearts — and residential — are open to no matter comes subsequent.
