Kylie Kelce says critics are taking her past comments about hiring babysitters when her husband, Jason Kelce, is at home out of context.
“It got so aggressively taken out of context that I was pissed about it for, like, months,” Kylie, 34, said during the Wednesday, March 25, episode of the “Conversations With Cam” podcast. “Because there comes a time where you can set the record straight. But then at what point are you just continuously [doing it]? And like, ‘I don’t need to.’ This is the same thing of, like, if I’m going to talk about it, I’ll talk about it. If I’m not, I’m not.”
Back in December 2024, Kylie caused a stir when she revealed that she would schedule a babysitter even when Jason, 38, is scheduled to be home with their kids. (The couple shares daughters Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 4, Bennett, 3, and Finn, who turns 1 year old on Monday, March 30.)
“How do I say this nicely? No,” Kylie said during the debut episode of her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast. “When I have to do something — coaching, something for Eagles Autism Foundation, something for my podcast, a doctor’s appointment even — I will schedule childcare. My husband could tell me 72 times that he is going to be in the house during the time when I have to leave it, [and] I will still schedule childcare.”
Kylie added that their schedule is unpredictable now that Jason is retired from the NFL, so it’s hard to know when he will be able to watch the kids.
After the episode aired, critics online slammed Kylie for seemingly not allowing Jason to watch their children.
“Tell me you don’t trust your husband, without telling him you don’t trust him,” an Instagram user commented on a clip of the podcast at the time.
Another person added, “That’s really sad a guy can’t parent his own kids.”
Addressing the criticism on Wednesday, Kylie continued, “It got so taken out of context because people were like, ‘You won’t let Jason watch your kids.’ And I’m like, ‘What do you mean, let him watch the kids? They’re his kids.’ I’m not letting him do anything. They’re f***ing his.”
Kylie then reiterated her original explanation for hiring a babysitter.
“When I first started the podcast and we addressed this, which is when I said it, Jason was in football season for ESPN,” she said. “He had multiple other things going on where his schedule was, and still is, chaotic, but not nearly as much. There was like no structure happening.”
Kylie added, “And there were times where he would be sitting, and he’d be like, ‘Oh, I don’t have anything for the rest of the day.’ And then someone would call him, and he’d be like, ‘Oh, I actually have to take this.’ And then he would end up on a call for like 45 minutes to an hour. And like, it’s, they’re not calls where you can have little voices in the background.”
The podcaster also argued that she had a “sarcastic” tone when she made the original remarks.
“It’s always how someone wants to twist it,” she noted.
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