By Michaela Gordoni
Podcaster Bunnie Xo is “not ashamed” to share her mugshot photos.
She shared the seven separate mugshot photos on Instagram on Nov. 4.
“Looking at the first one, I just couldn’t believe what a baby I was. I was 19 , already living on the streets of Vegas for 5 years, couch to couch, or with whatever boyfriend would let me stay,” she said. “By then I’d already lost three babies.”
“As the pics go on the eyes only get more sad, more broken & more intoxicated,” she said.
She received the photos after she asked her lawyer for them, thinking of an idea for her new book-tour merch, TODAY reported.
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“The fact that I’m smiling in some of these will let you kno [sic] just how disconnected I was from myself & my emotions,” she wrote. “I look at those photos now & just want to hug that little girl. She thought surviving meant hyper independence, fighting in the streets, barking loud & biting even harder.”
“I can still see the drugs in my skin, the bloodshot eyes, the hollow look that comes when you’ve stopped caring if you wake up tomorrow. I was deep in addiction, lost in survival mode. Add in a splash of perpetual victim mentality & it was a recipe for disaster,” she wrote.
“Even when I didn’t deserve it, God kept pulling me out of the fire.”
She says she isn’t at all “ashamed of these photos” because they remind her of what she came from and accomplished.
Bunnie, who is married to rapper/country star Jelly Roll, retired as a Las Vegas sex worker in 2023.
In 2024, she said, “A year ago I retired from the SW [sex work] industry. I was SO scared to let go of that part of my life & leave behind the money I was making — wasn’t sure how I’d make up that part of my business. But I had faith & let God have it & he made sure I made it back 10 fold 😭.”
Jelly Roll wrote in the comments of her mugshot post, “I would have never become the man I am withoutyou. It was your story that inspired mine, it was always you I was trying to be like. Im glad the world is about to hear the real perseverance , and see what God can really do.”
“While people talked about us, judged us, wished on our downfall, we just stayed the course and believed what God had for us no man could take away,” he said. “We overcome by the blood of the lamb and the power of out testimony. TESTIFY BABY! TESTIFY!”
The couple’s beliefs and lifestyle don’t resemble that of other believers, but they say they don’t care.
“We pride ourselves on being spiritual and not religious,” Bunnie said. “Meaning we don’t judge people and we try to lead with love; it’s an action. We’re not sitting and here saying we love Jesus, or that Jesus is our home boy, we just do it.”
Bunny’s new memoir, Stripped Down, comes out next February.
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