Podcast host Bunnie XO fired back at fans who questioned her post-divorce outing with 24-year-old reality star Dylan Wolf, telling critics she's "living her best life" after the end of her nearly decade-long marriage to country singer Jelly Roll.
The backlash started after Bunnie XO, 46, posted a TikTok video showing herself and Wolf eating breakfast at a Waffle House. She captioned the clip "POV: It's his first time at Waffle House." The comments section filled fast, and not with well-wishes. Fans zeroed in on the age difference between the two and questioned how quickly she appeared to move on after her split from Jelly Roll.
One commenter wrote, "of course it's his first time at Waffle House. He just got his drivers license and is allowed to stay out till 11 o'clock finally!" Another added, "i'm sure it's first time doing alot of things since hes a baby in a adult world." A third took a different angle: "Don't know how people can be together for 10+ years but can move on right away like it meant nothing."
Bunnie responded directly in the comments section of her own post, as Fox News reported:
"Hey guys, I'm having fun & he gave me my smile back. Ya girl is living her best life, let meeeee k thanks byeeeee."
She also claimed in a separate reply that the outing wasn't a date, though the exact wording of that denial was not quoted in the reporting.
The Waffle House video was not the first time Bunnie and Wolf had been seen together. She was first spotted with the "Calabasas Confidential" reality star in July. Video obtained by TMZ showed her kissing Wolf in Nashville, at Jelly Roll's own bar, no less.
That detail added fuel to the public reaction. Jelly Roll filed for divorce on May 18, listing May 9 as the couple's date of separation. The divorce was finalized in July after what both sides described as nearly ten years of marriage. The two first met at a concert in Las Vegas in 2015 and eloped a year later.
Shortly after the divorce announcement, Bunnie used her podcast, "Dumb Blonde," to share intimate details about the split. She later deleted the episode from YouTube. The specifics of what she said in that episode were not detailed in available reporting.
The emotional toll of the breakup was severe. Bunnie revealed in a separate interview that she lost 20 pounds due to heartbreak, at times requiring IV fluids and eating only baby food because she couldn't keep anything else down.
"There were moments where my team had to pick me up off the floor and get me IVs because I wasn't eating."
That kind of raw admission makes the whiplash of her public appearances with Wolf all the more striking to fans who followed the couple's marriage closely.
Bunnie addressed the scrutiny more fully during an appearance on Jenna Bush Hager's podcast, "Open Book." She leaned into the idea that she owes no one an explanation, and hinted that Wolf may not be the last person fans see her with.
"I'm like, 'Can your girl [have some fun]?' I'm going, 'You guys are going to see me with multiple men, maybe even a couple women. You never know. Maybe even a freaking camel.'"
She also pushed back on the assumption that her social media presence reflects her full life. The divorce from Jelly Roll drew intense public interest, and Bunnie seemed aware that every post would be dissected.
"People probably think I'm out here doing, like, ho activities, and I'm not. I swear to God. Literally, we're at home playing, what's it called?, Cards Against Humanity.... We're swimming, we're working out. You guys see only what I put on social media."
Her broader message to women, delivered with the casual confidence of someone who has decided she no longer cares what the comments section thinks, centered on permission and self-care.
"It's just pouring back into yourself. It's being selfish. It's OK to be selfish. We as women feel like we need permission to be selfish, and we don't. Tell your kids to go to bed and eat the freaking brownies without them, you know? Even if it's something as small as that, we deserve to be selfish."
She added: "We deserve to have our own time, and we deserve to pour into each other. I'm having so much fun."
Bunnie's situation lands in a growing list of high-profile marriage collapses. Amanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski recently ended their nine-year marriage. Actress Lori Loughlin filed for divorce from Mossimo Giannulli after 28 years together, a split that came years after the college admissions scandal that sent both to prison.
In Nashville, the same city where Bunnie was spotted with Wolf, Jack White's third marriage ended when Olivia Jean filed a fault-based divorce.
And actor Frankie Muniz recently spoke publicly about the emotional devastation of his own divorce, describing weeks of personal turmoil that left him feeling like he had hit rock bottom.
Bunnie's case stands out less for the divorce itself than for the speed and visibility of what followed. Going from IV fluids and baby food to kissing a 24-year-old reality star at your ex-husband's bar, all within weeks, is the kind of timeline that invites questions no matter how many times you tell people to mind their own business.
Whether Wolf is a rebound, a publicity play, or something more serious remains unclear. Neither he nor Bunnie has publicly defined the relationship. Bunnie denied the Waffle House outing was a date, but the Nashville footage tells a different story.
Fans can debate the age gap all they want. The real question is simpler: when someone tells you they're fine, but the timeline says otherwise, which do you believe?
