Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes have break up after greater than two years collectively, a rep for the nation singer confirms to Us Weekly.
Whereas neither star has addressed the breakup, Stokes, 32, not too long ago celebrated Ballerini’s thirty second birthday.
“Though you retain saying you’re not excited for 32, I’d say I’m lookin’ ahead to extra of this,” he wrote through Instagram on Friday, September 12. “Completely satisfied birthday, my love.”
Ballerini subtly “appreciated” the add, which featured a carousel of images.
The nation singer and the Outer Banks star had been first linked in January 2023. Ballerini confirmed their relationship one month later, revealing that she had slid into Stokes’ DMs.
“[My manager] was like, ‘You understand who’s actually cute, like, whenever you’re prepared? Chase.’ I used to be like, ‘You’re so proper,’” she recalled throughout a February 2023 look on the “Name Her Daddy” podcast. “His deal with is ‘@hichasestokes,’ and I simply mentioned, ‘Hello, Chase Stokes.’”
In October 2024, Stokes shared the inspiration of his reference to Ballerini, noting on the At present present, “I honestly assume whenever you discover anyone who’s not simply anyone you like and adore, however can be your greatest good friend, you’ve sort of received one of the best of each worlds.”
Earlier this yr, Ballerini and Stokes celebrated their two-year anniversary with gushing Instagram posts.
“Two years of catching one another in numerous cities, perfecting a chimichurri steak and making a world that revolves round canines,” she wrote through Instagram in January. “Love you so, teammate.”
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Stokes, for his half, captioned his personal submit, “Two laps across the solar with you, I like you kb (particularly whenever you chortle so laborious you wheeze, and eight a.m. dance routines to your toothbrush).”
In an April interview with Individuals, Ballerini revealed that she and Stokes strengthened their connection by going to remedy collectively.
“I take a look at love actually virtually now, and one way or the other it’s my favourite model of it,” she defined. “Now my model of affection that I’ve discovered, it’s regular and it’s human, and we work on it. That, to me, actually, is the sexiest factor, like, ‘Hey, you need to go to remedy? Let’s go to remedy.’ Being so down together with your individual to place within the work for one another and individually, it’s a really new sort of love for me.”
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Three months later, Ballerini spoke solely to Us Weekly a couple of shift in her relationship with Stokes.
“You do [challenge each other], or it’s boring and then you definately’re stagnant after which that’s not going to work out,” she mentioned in July. “I feel we’re two and a half years in, so [the relationship] seems to be lots totally different now than it did to start with.”
She added, “I don’t know, I feel we’re actually related — and within the ways in which we’re totally different, that’s the place we problem one another. … I simply need all the great issues on the earth for him.”
Previous to their two-year romance, the pair had headline-making relationships with different celebrities. Ballerini was married to fellow nation singer Morgan Evans from 2017 to 2022, whereas Stokes dated his Outer Banks costar Madelyn Cline from 2020 to 2021.
