Madelyn Cline is sharing a behind-the-scenes take a look at her friendship with ex Chase Stokes’ girlfriend, Kelsea Ballerini.
In a photograph shared through her Instagram Story on Monday, February 2, Cline, 28, positioned her hand over her mouth as she gave the impression to be laughing on the digital camera. Ballerini, in the meantime, lined her face together with her hand as she wore her hair in a laid-back bun.
In lieu of a caption, Cline merely tagged Ballerini, 32, within the picture.
Cline’s picture comes someday after Ballerini stepped out on the 2026 Grammys and received candid about her private life following her break up — and recoupling — with Stokes, 33.
“I’ve at all times been a continual oversharer, and I feel for the primary time, at 32, I’m reigning it in,” she stated throughout a Sunday, February 2, interview on E! Reside from the Pink Carpet. “I feel my life may simply be my life for some time. It feels proper.”
Ballerini famous that she discovered “quite a bit” whereas making her album Patternswhich earned a nomination for Finest Modern Nation Album on the awards present. (Jelly Roll finally took residence the trophy for his Superbly Damaged album.)
“I’ve been such a continual individuals pleaser for my complete life and most of my profession,” she stated. “I feel I’m beginning to shift that in a wholesome means.”
Us Weekly completely confirmed in January that Ballerini had reconnected with Stokes, two months after the pair break up once more.
“I really feel like outwardly, it appeared much more dramatic than it was,” Ballerini mirrored to Leisure Tonight on the Grammys. “And that was fairly the educational lesson for us. However I like him a lot. We’ve been collectively for fairly some time now and completed lots of life collectively, and he was with me preparing at present, and he’ll be with me after we wrap.”
She continued, “I like love, and I consider in it. And in addition, I consider a lot to find the issues that make you cheerful and discovering the issues that you just need to work on and determining, when the rubber meets the highway, learn how to make that work.”
Cline, in the meantime, confirmed her relationship together with her Outer Banks costar in June 2020 after months of fan hypothesis. Multiple 12 months later, the pair referred to as it quits in November 2021.
“I feel on the time I didn’t understand what the repercussions of inviting so many individuals into — let’s be sincere — one thing that’s intimate,” Cline mirrored of their romance on a March 2025 episode of the “Therapuss” podcast. “I didn’t perceive it. I used to be so in love.”
“I feel they beloved it due to us, however additionally they beloved John B and Sarah before everything,” Cline continued, referencing their Outer Banks characters earlier than including that it was “completely” exhausting to separate. “You take a look at any public breakup and, you understand, so many individuals are invested, and naturally that was actually exhausting.”
Cline has since been linked to Zack Bia, Jackson Guthy and Pete Davidson since her break up from Stokes. In September 2025, she was seen getting cozy with Prince Constantine-Alexios of Greece and Denmark.