Former Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce and his wife, Kylie Kelce, elected to keep their children home instead of bringing them to New Orleans to either cheer for their uncle Travis Kelce and the Kansas City Chiefs or their father’s former team. In the end, Kylie said the negatives just outweighed the positives, and they left the children home.
There was “a lot of discussion” about whether the girls should join their parents in New Orleans, but they ultimately decided to have them stay home.
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“We of course want them [here], and they of course want to support Uncle Trav,” Kylie told “Today.”
“But in the end, the logistics of travel, school, and childcare were just too overwhelming. “They don’t also really watch football in a way that they would enjoy being in the stadium for the duration of the Super Bowl. So in an effort to sort of just give everyone their best shot at enjoying the day, they will be watching the Super Bowl from home.”
Kylie jokes that Jason doesn’t know how women operate because he grew up with his mother, Donna Kelce, as the only woman in the family. He and Travis had no sisters or first cousins who were female.
“I always joke around that Jason doesn’t know how girls work because he only grew up with a brother and no first cousins,” his wife said with a laugh. “Poor Donna, Mama Kelce, was just the lone wolf — her and the dog, Belle, were the only females of the house.”
Jason and Kylie have three wonderful daughters with another one on the way. You could say Jason is a bit outnumbered.
“In the generation that I grew up in, it was a lot of discussing bodies instead of how much they could do. I’m so glad that the narrative is shifting,” Kylie said, speaking as an ambassador for Dove’s “Body Confident Sport” program.
Kylie and Jason work consciously to make sure their words reflect the new narrative.
Kylie, who is 5’11”, remembers being “ruthlessly bullied” for her height in high school. She eventually recognized her height is “an asset” and wants to make sure her daughters do the same. The Kelces’ oldest daughter Wyatt is getting taller and exceeds the normal height for a child of her age. Instead of stressing how tall she is, they try to instill in her the things that she can do as a result of her height.
Kylie is working with Dove to try and stress the incredible things the body can do as a result of being in good shape. In the background of the commercial, you could hear Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run” playing.
Despite the work she does with Dove, Kylie tries to treat her children like kids and make sure they know what it is like to interact with other children and play some form of athletics.
“I really try to focus on the fact that they’re still really little, and I want to make sure that when they are starting sports that it feels very much like play,” Kylie says. “I want to make sure that they feel like kids and that we’re not in some seriously strict regimen of sports this early in their life.”
