Kylie Kelce has her three children — and her baby girl on the way — on her mind as she navigates her life in the spotlight.
“I assume this isn’t always going to be our life, and I don’t want them to be impacted in some way that twists them into thinking that this is normal,” Kelce, 32, told The New York Times in an interview published on Thursday, December 19.
Kelce explained that she wanted to start her podcast, “Not Gonna Lie,” so that she could have the opportunity to “set the record straight” about her family.
Due to husband Jason Kelce’s career in the NFL, Kylie and her family were already in the public eye before her brother-in-law, Travis Kelce, began dating Taylor Swift — but the pop star and Kansas City Chiefs’ player’s romance has brought their fame to new heights.
While Kylie and Jason, 37, have been candid about their stardom, he has acknowledged that the couple don’t receive as much attention as Travis and Swift, both 35.
“It’s been crazy [and] then Travis and Taylor have taken it to another level and that’s a whole other side of it,” Jason said during a June episode of Andrew Santino’s “Whiskey Ginger” podcast. “Like, Kylie and I think we have it bad and then we go hang out with one of them for a second. This is a whole other situation here [and] I don’t even know how to, like, you can’t be a normal person at that point.”
Jason joked that Kylie, with whom he shares daughters Wyatt, 5, Bennett, 3, and Elliotte, 21 months, should “no doubt” be more famous than him. (The duo revealed in November that Kylie is pregnant with their fourth child, a girl.)
“So, we did the [Kelce] documentary a few years ago and… I think she’s a little bit uncomfortable with how much it’s become and our family’s out there, like, people know what our kids look like,” he said. “We’ve tried to retract from that a little but, I think she enjoys the fact that she gets to go and do charitable outings [and] she gets to give back to the community [and] do clinics with little girls [for] field hockey and all these other things.”
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Jason noted that there are some parts of their fame that Kylie was “more hesitant” to accept that she “didn’t really sign up” for when they tied the knot in 2018.
“I’m like, ‘We’re going to be all right [and] we’re getting through it,’” Jason explained. “It gets to be too much at times and it’s hard to always be available, … but I think, more often than not, it’s awesome whenever you’re doing that stuff and the vast majority of people are beyond just respectful and appreciative.”
Travis, for his part, wasn’t used to the level of fame that surrounds Swift, but he hasn’t shied away from embracing it.
“Obviously, I’ve never dated anyone with that kind of aura about them … I’ve never dealt with it,” Travis told WSJ. Magazine in a November 2023 profile. “But at the same time, I’m not running away from any of it. … The scrutiny she gets, how much she has a magnifying glass on her, every single day, paparazzi outside her house, outside every restaurant she goes to, after every flight she gets off, and she’s just living, enjoying life. When she acts like that, I better not be the one acting all strange.”
