Kelly Stafford couldn’t help but pull out the camera on her daughters’ last day of etiquette class — much to their chagrin.
To celebrate her daughters completing cotillion — a series of classes meant to impart traditional etiquette lessons onto young people — Kelly shared a video of one of her twin daughters dancing with a boy in the middle of a bustling ballroom.
Kelly, 36, and her husband, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, share four daughters: twins Sawyer and Chandler, 8, Hunter, 7, and Tyler, 5.
“Final night of cotillion 🥹,” Kelly posted via her Insagram Story on Tuesday, February 10.
Kelly’s daughter had a noticeable scowl on her face while her mom filmed the dance, which came just days after the entire Stafford family hit the red carpet at the NFL Honors on Thursday, February 5, where Matthew, 38, took home NFL MVP and announced his intention to return for another season during his acceptance speech.
The Staffords revealed their three oldest daughters would be attending cotillion in November 2025 after a series of behavioral issues.
“This has been an ongoing thing for the last couple of months where the attitudes have come into play,” Kelly said on her podcast, “The Morning After,” in March 2025. “I’m struggling to parent it. I am an enforcer. I am probably the mean parent. Matthew has now turned also. We tried the ‘good cop, bad cop’ situation that we always are. Clearly it’s not working because nothing has changed.”
Kelly canceled her twins’ 8th birthday party over the dispute, though she eventually went back on the decision and threw Sawyer and Chandler a French-themed soirée.
“We told them, ‘Birthday party is off because we cannot honestly celebrate you guys right now just because of the way you’re behaving,’” she said on the podcast. “‘We love you, but I don’t think you should have a celebration.’ That was really how we both felt, Matthew and I.”
Kelly, who was born and raised in Georgia, announced plans for her daughters to attend Christian school in September 2025.
“I’m pumped for a lot of reasons,” Kelly said on “The Morning After.” “One of them just being primarily that living in California, actually living anywhere in the world these days, the world is changing and at this state where I feel like at any moment it could just all blow up in our faces.”
She continued, “Just to give them the base and the values of Christianity every day, knowing they have something to turn back to if things get hard, I’m very excited about.”
In a conversation with her sister, Jenny, Kelly said she hoped that sending her daughters to Christian school would mirror “how we grew up.”
“The Morning After” has been on hiatus since October 2025, which Kelly addressed on social media after the fact.
“I feel this pull to get back to my roots, and to do that, I have to pour into the people I love most,” Kelly shared via Instagram in November 2025. “I’ve got a husband in the middle of one hell of a season, and I want to be fully locked in with him. I want to be present for my girls. I want to give my whole heart to the people who have always given theirs to me.”
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