“I don’t really care if he’s deported,” she toldUs Weeklylast August.

“I just want him to leave me alone.”

They’re also practicingsocial distancingtogether in the midst of thecoronavirus pandemic.

Jay Smith and Ashley Martson

Ashley has gone public with the relationship onInstagram, where she’s going by Ashley Smith.

Both she and her husband have posted recent videos on their Instagram Stories of them hanging out together.

When asked by a fan if they had decided to fight for their marriage, Jay responded (viaE!

Ashley Martson

News) ,“We been fighting from day uno.”

“I struggled so badly,” she said.

“I lived in a tiny apartment where my rent was only 500 a month.

Ashley Martson

My rent was almost always late, bills were stacking up…

I cried daily.”

Now, though, Ashley is thriving and things have changed a lot for her family.

Ashley Martson and Jay Smith

She encouraged other single parents to not give up.

“Single moms and dads this is a message for you,” she wrote.

“You may feel like giving up, we’ve been there.

you might and you WILL.

Fight the fight, I promise better days are ahead.”

“Y’all, I’m not pregnant, LOL,” she wrote (viaIn Touch Weekly).

That doesn’t mean they don’t want kids one day, though.

Ashley provided a timeline for when they might want kids.

“We’re working on more things, more important [things] right now,” she said.

Jay suggested having a baby in 2025, to which Ashley responded, “Maybe then.”