Kylie Kelce doesn’t just talk about modern motherhood. She shows what being a working mother means.
On Friday, Jan. 30, being a working mother meant being woken up by one of the girls around midnight, then hopping in a car at 4 am to travel from Philadelphia to New York City to talk to Savannah Guthrie in Studio 1A at 8:30 am.
In the greenroom before the segment, Kelce tells TODAY.com that making motherhood visible isn’t necessarily a strategic plan.
“It’s just happening,” Kelce says, even multitasking by fixing her makeup as we chat.
On Friday, Jan. 30, being a working mother meant being woken up by one of the girls around midnight, then hopping in a car at 4 am to travel from Philadelphia to New York City to talk to Savannah Guthrie in Studio 1A at 8:30 am.
In the greenroom before the segment, Kelce tells TODAY.com that making motherhood visible isn’t necessarily a strategic plan.
“It’s just happening,” Kelce says, even multitasking by fixing her makeup as we chat.
She remembers needing to nurse her youngest daughter, Finn, at the same time as she was scheduled to record an interview for her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast. So she starting breastfeeding her baby and simultaneously logged into her recording database.
“I actually had Finn under my shirt. And (guest Caleb Hearon) said, ‘Why is there a hand coming out of your collar?'” Kelce recalls. “And I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s Finn. She’s busy. Don’t mind us.'”
She explains further, “I’m not going to not feed my child, but at the same time, this is the interview time that Caleb had available.”
Kelce says that the podcast team jokingly refers to themselves as “unprofessional professionals.” But what can be more professional than simultaneously taking care of business at home and at work without breaking a sweat?
“Don’t take yourself too seriously in terms of being embarrassed that you are a mother,” she says. “Because you can be professional and you can be a mother, and they don’t have to be entirely separate.”
When Kelce needs help, she isn’t afraid to ask for it.
Very few celebrities mention their childcare in interviews. Kelce has not only talked about how grateful she is for the family babysitter, but also often mentions her by name.
“It’s silly to me that people don’t acknowledge that they have help,” she says. “We do have help. We love Lauren and we love my mom and we love friends and chosen family. And so when my husband and I are busy and we’re running around we know that they’re still with a safe and loved individual.”
Referencing an earlier moment of the podcast when she received scrutiny for scheduling childcare when her husband Jason Kelce is home, the busy mom says, “It’s funny because I schedule her for when I’m home too. People were like, ‘Your husband needs the nanny? I’m like, ‘No, no. I also need the nanny.'”
Kelce stopped by Studio 1A as a part of her work with Dove and the company’s new Super Bowl ad about bringing joy and body confidence to girls in sports. She appreciates the way the company celebrates women’s bodies of all shapes and sizes.
“As women, we don’t have to be embarrassed of our bodies,” she says. And in the same way, she continues, “we don’t have to be embarrassed of getting help. There’s a reason ‘it takes a village’ is such a common phrase, right? Because it does.”
