Stripped Down: Unfiltered and Unapologetic

Stripped Down is Bunnie Xo’s raw memoir of survival, self-destruction, and transformation. It opens with a brutal car crash in Las Vegas—one more moment she “should have died”—then rewinds to a childhood marked by abandonment, abuse, sexual trauma, and a home where chaos was normalized. As she grows, Bunnie chases control through fighting, running away, sex, money, and substances, repeatedly landing in dangerous relationships that mirror early wounds.

The memoir follows her rise through stripping, escorting, and the “party era,” alongside escalating addiction, panic attacks, and repeated medical crises. The emotional center becomes her eventual break from an intensely abusive partner and the unexpected stability she finds with Jelly Roll—yet even that love is tested by sobriety, custody battles, betrayal, grief, and mental-health collapse. The book ultimately lands on healing: therapy, boundaries, faith, and the decision to build a safer family life, especially for their daughter Bailee.

• Listeners who want a candid recovery-and-resilience memoir that does not sanitize addiction, sex work, or trauma.
• Fans of Bunnie Xo and Jelly Roll interested in the real backstory behind their relationship and family life.
• Anyone navigating trauma cycles—especially abusive relationships—looking for hard-earned perspective on leaving, rebuilding, and staying alive.

Alisa “Bunnie Xo” DeFord is the host of the Dumb Blonde Podcast and founder of Dumb Blonde Productions. Raised in Las Vegas, she built an online media career through candid interviews and storytelling and now lives in Nashville with her husband, musician Jelly Roll, and their children.