Jelly Roll had a tough time explaining his face tattoos to his daughter Bailee Ann’s friends as she was growing up — but the opinions of those children’s parents were even tougher.
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According to Monday (Jan. 5) post by Taste of Country, the singer recently recalled on Taste of Country Nights how he used to fib to his firstborn’s kindergarten classmates about the ink on his face. “It was so funny, because all of her little friends would go, ‘What is all that stuff on your face?’” he said.
“I would go, ‘You won’t believe this, I only draw this on when I come see y’all so y’all are excited about it,’” he continued. “Finally, they were like, ‘How do you draw it on the same way every time?’ I said, ‘I got the little sticker things now because I been coming so much.’”
The jig was up, however, when Bailee’s friends got older and their parents started to forbid them from hanging out at Jelly’s house “due to the face tattoos and the lifestyle that they assumed it brought,” the publication reports.
Jelly is still tight with his daughter, over whom he now shares joint custody with his wife, Bunnie Xo. He’s been open in the past about fighting to rebuild his relationship with Bailee when she was young after he spent time in jail and having to prove he was capable of being a father to the court. Now 17 years old, Bailee recently hosted a prom for her dad and stepmother, neither of whom got to experience one when they were in high school.
And though his tattoos will always be a part of him, Jelly — who also has a son from a previous relationship — has said in the past that he isn’t always a fan of his own ink. “I regret 98 percent of these tattoos, 97 percent. Almost all of them,” he said in a March 2024 interview with GQ. “Now that I’m 40, I’m like, ‘What the f–k was I thinking?’”
