Jess Hilarious Steps Into Her Author Era With Co-Parenting Memoir Til Death Do We Parent
Jessica Robin Moore — better known as Jess Hilarious — has spent years making people laugh as a comedian and radio personality. Now, at 34, she's adding a new title to her résumé: published author. Her debut book, Til Death Do We Parent by Jess Hilarious, dropped April 29, 2026, and it's already generating significant buzz — not just because of who wrote it, but because of how it was written. Rather than a solo memoir about surviving co-parenting, Jess brought her ex into the project, giving readers something genuinely rare: both sides of the story.
The book arrives at a particular moment in Jess's life. She's navigating a blended household, a new baby, a high-profile radio gig with its own recent drama, and a public persona built on radical honesty. Essence covered the release, framing it as a milestone in her career — and given everything that's unfolded over the past few years, that framing feels accurate.
Who Is Jess Hilarious? The Career Behind the Headline
Born Jessica Robin Moore, Jess Hilarious built her platform the way most comedians do in the social media era: short-form video, raw delivery, and an instinct for what resonates. Her comedic style — blunt, self-deprecating, chaotic in the best way — translated seamlessly from Instagram to mainstream media, eventually landing her a co-host seat on The Breakfast Club, one of the most influential hip-hop radio shows in the country.
That career arc matters as context for the book. Jess didn't come up through traditional publishing pipelines or land a deal because she's a celebrity with a ghostwriter and a message to sell. The memoir reads — at least in spirit — as an extension of the candid storytelling she's always done. She became famous for telling the truth about her life, even when it was messy. Til Death Do We Parent is that same impulse, just with a longer word count and a co-author.
Her willingness to publicly own her experiences — teenage parenthood, complicated relationships, professional setbacks — is what's made her audience loyal. That loyalty is showing up now in the early response to the book.
The Book: What Makes Til Death Do We Parent Different
Co-parenting memoirs aren't new. What's uncommon is a co-parenting memoir actually co-written by both co-parents. Jess and her ex Gerome, known as Rome, were high school sweethearts. Their son Ashton is now 14 — meaning this co-parenting relationship has been active for over a decade, through all the friction, growth, and renegotiation that entails.
Jess has been deliberate about why Rome's voice needed to be in the book. She's said she wanted the memoir to speak to both parents, not just mothers processing the emotional labor of raising a child with someone they're no longer with. That's a meaningful creative and editorial choice. So much co-parenting content is written through a maternal lens, treating fathers as variables rather than participants. By insisting on Rome's perspective, Jess positioned the book as something genuinely useful for a wider audience — and more honest as a document of what co-parenting actually looks like.
According to MSN, Jess has spoken openly about becoming a parent before her life was fully formed — before she had financial stability, emotional maturity, or a clear sense of who she was as an adult. That raw admission is the emotional core of the book's appeal. It's not a success story packaged for inspiration. It's a messy, ongoing story told in real time by two people who are still in it.
Jess's Personal Life: A New Chapter at Home
The timing of the book is inseparable from where Jess is in her personal life. She now describes herself as married, raising two children with different fathers and navigating the complexity that comes with a blended family structure.
Her second child, daughter Marley Sky Moore Tolliver, was born in August 2024. The pregnancy announcement was classic Jess — completely unexpected and entirely public. In February 2024, her partner Chris called into The Breakfast Club live on air to announce the news, on what happened to be Jess's 32nd birthday. It was the kind of moment that her audience had come to expect: personal life and professional life fully collapsed into one another, zero separation between the person and the performer.
Chris, the father of Marley Sky, is a CEO of a trucking company — a detail that's drawn curiosity from fans accustomed to entertainers dating within their industry. Yahoo Entertainment profiled the relationship, noting that Jess first publicly acknowledged it in June 2023 when she posted a flower delivery video on Instagram. Their relationship went from low-key to very public very quickly, in the way most things in Jess's life tend to.
So the family portrait right now: Jess, married, with a 14-year-old son she co-parents with her high school ex, and a 1-year-old daughter with her current husband. That's the real-world backdrop against which Til Death Do We Parent lands — and it gives the book an immediacy that a more distant memoir wouldn't have.
The Breakfast Club Tensions: What Happened When She Came Back
No profile of Jess Hilarious in 2025 or 2026 is complete without addressing the professional turbulence that followed her maternity leave. While she was out, a producer named Loren Lorosa stepped in to fill her role temporarily. When Jess returned, the situation had shifted — Lorosa's presence had become more entrenched than expected, and the dynamic on set changed.
What followed was public and uncomfortable. Jess went to Instagram Live to express her frustrations, airing grievances about the situation in real time. That led to a confrontation directly on air with Breakfast Club co-hosts Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy. It was exactly the kind of messy, unfiltered conflict that makes great radio and terrible HR optics simultaneously.
Rolling Out covered the showdown in detail, and the story spread quickly because it touched something real: what happens to women in the workplace — even women with established roles and public platforms — when they step away to have a child? The replacement-that-stays situation is not unique to radio. It's a workplace experience many women recognize.
Yahoo News framed the incident as a broader lesson about not letting "nameless, faceless people block your blessings" — using Jess's situation as a cultural touchpoint for conversations about professional self-advocacy. Whether or not you agree with how she handled it, the instinct to fight for her seat at the table rather than quietly accept a diminished role is consistent with everything that's defined her career.
What This Means: Jess Hilarious as a Cultural Voice Worth Taking Seriously
There's a tendency in entertainment media to treat comedians — especially Black women comedians — as entertainment first and thinkers second. Jess Hilarious has always pushed back against that framing implicitly, just by being more complicated than the label allows.
The book is the clearest articulation of that yet. Writing a co-parenting memoir requires sustained vulnerability, organizational thinking about your own life story, and the willingness to hand editorial authority over your narrative to a co-author whose perspective might not always flatter you. Those aren't the instincts of someone who's just riffing for laughs.
The co-authorship model she chose for Til Death Do We Parent also says something meaningful about how she thinks about co-parenting itself. Jess isn't positioning herself as the primary parent who graciously allowed the father of her child to contribute. She's positioning Rome as an equal narrator of a shared story. In the current cultural conversation around parental roles, that's not a small gesture.
She's also entering the author space at a moment when celebrity books are receiving more scrutiny than ever. Readers are tired of ghostwritten memoirs that read like extended press releases. Jess's credibility here comes from the same place her comedy credibility comes from: she's already told most of these stories publicly, and her audience knows it. The book isn't a reveal — it's a deeper look at things they've already seen in fragments. That's a much stronger position to publish from.
For fans of other entertainers navigating complicated personal lives in public — like Keke Palmer, who's had her own high-profile experience with public co-parenting discourse — Jess's memoir lands in fertile territory. These aren't isolated stories. They're part of a broader cultural shift in how Black women in entertainment are choosing to tell their own narratives on their own terms.
Frequently Asked Questions About Jess Hilarious
What is Til Death Do We Parent about?
Til Death Do We Parent is a co-parenting memoir co-written by Jess Hilarious and her ex Gerome (Rome), who is the father of her 14-year-old son Ashton. The book covers their experiences navigating co-parenting and blended family life, with both perspectives included intentionally so the memoir speaks to fathers as well as mothers. It was released April 29, 2026.
Who is Jess Hilarious's current husband?
Jess Hilarious describes herself as currently married, though she's kept specific details about her husband relatively private compared to other aspects of her life. Her partner Chris — who is identified publicly as the CEO of a trucking company and the father of her daughter Marley Sky Moore Tolliver — announced Jess's pregnancy live on The Breakfast Club in February 2024. Yahoo Entertainment has published a profile on their relationship and his background.
What happened between Jess Hilarious and The Breakfast Club?
When Jess returned from maternity leave after the birth of her daughter in August 2024, she found that the producer who had been filling in during her absence had taken on a more permanent role. Jess publicly aired her frustrations on Instagram Live, which led to an on-air confrontation with Charlamagne Tha God and DJ Envy. Rolling Out covered the confrontation in detail in March 2025.
How old is Jess Hilarious and what is her real name?
Jess Hilarious was born Jessica Robin Moore and is 34 years old as of 2026. She is a comedian and co-host of The Breakfast Club radio show.
Does Jess Hilarious have more than one child?
Yes. She has two children: Ashton, her 14-year-old son with her high school ex Gerome (Rome), and Marley Sky Moore Tolliver, her 1-year-old daughter born in August 2024 with her partner Chris. The co-parenting relationship with Rome for Ashton is the subject of her debut memoir.
Conclusion: More Than a Moment
Jess Hilarious has always been more than a punchline. The debut book is the most formal evidence yet of someone who has thought seriously about her life — not just performed it. Til Death Do We Parent is a genuine attempt to document something complicated and ongoing, with the full participation of both people involved. That's harder than it sounds, and the result is a book with real potential to resonate beyond her existing fanbase.
The professional drama at The Breakfast Club, the new baby, the high-profile relationship — these aren't distractions from the book's story. They're context for it. Jess is writing about co-parenting and blended family life while actively living it, in public, in real time. That's the kind of authenticity that can't be manufactured, and it's probably the reason this release is landing the way it is.
Watch this space. For someone who's been building toward this kind of platform for years, a debut book at 34 isn't an endpoint. It's a door opening.
