Kelsea Ballerini Posts Photo Dump Life Update Following Chase Stokes Split: ‘Hot Dogs, Porch Painting, Bed By 9pm, Friendship’

Kelsea Ballerini posted one of her epic photo dump updates on Tuesday (Oct. 28), in one of her first personal posts since announcing that she’d broken up with Outer Banks actor Chase Stokes in early September.

Though the Instagram photo reel didn’t make any reference to the split or Stokes, it provided fans an inside track on what the “Cowboys Cry Too” singer has been up to lately. “brought to you by hot dogs, porch painting, bed by 9pm, friendship, parks, kenny chesney, and lexapro,” she wrote in the caption that opened with an image of her face obscured by a Polo baseball hat as she listened to music on wired headphones.

The next slide provided the “hot dog” portion of the caption via a picnic pic of a trio of women in jeans enjoying a dog, chicken wings and fries, followed by the “porch painting” bit where she is taking a nap on a sun-flooded outdoor space with a paintbrush and palette sitting on the table.

There were also snaps of Kelsea in a white terry cloth top and matching bottoms wearing an opaque silicone sheet mask, a pic of a pumpkin painted with a tree, her seemingly hugging a black cowboy hat-wearing Chensey from on stage during a show and some snuggle time with her beloved goldendoodle Dibs.

Ballerini and Stokes began dating in 2023 and a rep confirmed to Billboard that they broke up in early September. “They’re two adults who gave it their all and tried to do everything they could to make it work, but ultimately couldn’t. It happens,” sources close to Ballerini and Stokes told People at the time.

Fans were seemingly caught off guard by the Sept. 15 news since just three days earlier, Stokes celebrated Ballerini’s 32nd birthday with a celebratory Instagram post that included several photos and videos of the couple’s private life. Stokes captioned the post, “Although you keep saying you’re not excited for 32, id say I’m lookin forward to more of this. happy birthday my love.”

The new post from Ballerini also featured a snap of her and friends painting their pumpkins at night and saying hello to a horse and ended with a silly clip of the singer emerging from the mouth of a blue hippo see-saw on a playground.