Real-Life Loves
Are ‘Outer Banks’ Star Chase Stokes & Kelsea Ballerini Still Together?
After more than two years of putting their relationship in the spotlight, Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes have been much less public with their love in recent months. The two haven’t made an official appearance together since May, and fans noticed that they’ve been posting way less of each other on social media.
Of course, this has sparked speculation that there may be trouble in paradise between the lovebirds. So, what’s going on? Scroll down for everything we know.
Are Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes still together?
Yes, Ballerini and Stokes are still going strong after nearly three years of dating. Despite rarely featuring each other on their Instagram pages all summer, Stokes proved he’s still madly in love with The Voice coach on her 32nd birthday on September 12.
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Along with a photo dump of images, Stokes wrote, “Although you keep saying you’re not excited for 32, id say I’m lookin forward to more of this. happy birthday my love.” Fans can likely expect a similar sentiment from Ballerini when Stokes turns 33 on September 16.
Do Kelsea Ballerini and Chase Stokes live together?
Yes, Ballerini confirmed in an interview with People in 2024 that the two, who met after she slid into his DMs in December 2022, had moved in together.
“Oh, we’re unpacked, baby!” the singer told the outlet, referencing the song “Baggage” off her October 2024 album, Patterns, in which she sings about moving in with a partner, despite bringing “baggage” with her.
She didn’t specify where their home base is. Before they got together, she was living in Nashville, and he was in Charleston, where the couple still spends a lot of time while Stokes films Outer Banks (the show’s final season is due out in 2026).
What happened to Kelsea Ballerini’s marriage?
Prior to her relationship with Stokes, Ballerini was married to country singer Morgan Evans from 2017 to 2022. On the Call Her Daddy podcast in February 2023, Ballerini said she and Evans had begun having issues about a year into their marriage, but their different opinions about wanting to have kids was ultimately the breaking point.
“The moment I think it was over over was I was realizing I wasn’t ready for kids,” she shared. “That’s a fundamental difference. I still don’t know if I want kids at all or not. That was something we had talked about early on and something I was changing on. He was ready. He was like, ‘I don’t want to be an old dad.’ And I’m like, ‘I’m just not there yet. I can’t do this to save us. I can’t do that to myself.'”
She said when she told her then-husband that she consulted a doctor about freezing her eggs for her 30th birthday, things shifted. “It was no longer just, ‘I don’t see this person, I miss this person, I’m alone and lonely,'” she continued. “It was, ‘He wants something out of life and I’m not there.’ Whether I’ll get there or not, I don’t think it’s with this person. I think, internally, in hindsight, that’s where I went, ‘Maybe we need to rethink this.'”
