Kylie Kelce has very clear feelings about strangers feeling the need to comment on her upbringing, and she wasn’t shy about sharing them.
Appearing in the Sunday sports club On the March 29 podcast, the media personality and mother of four opened up to host Allison Kuch about what she called “unsolicited mom advice” and admitted that it triggers an “underlying anger” that she finds difficult to suppress.
She gave an idea of what she means.
“Like when people see you with your kid and say, ‘You should wear a hat.’ I’m like, ‘You should mind your damn business.'”
She had an equally sharp response ready for the sock comments.
“‘She should have socks on.’ Great, do you have any? Because the three pairs I brought with me, she already threw away, so do with them what you want.”
One of her daughters, she explained, found it so difficult to keep her shoes on that Kylie finally gave up completely.
“I literally called her shoe-dini. We’d lose a shoe everywhere we went. And I was like, ‘I’ve had enough. I’m not putting shoes on you anymore. Damn shoes. Now you’re wearing socks.’ And that’s it.”
Anyone who dared to comment on that decision did not receive much attention.
“I was like, ‘No, no, no one needs it. I don’t need it. You don’t need it. You don’t need this heat. Stay out of my kitchen. I’m fine.'”
When Kuch asked what kind of comment would make her want to punch someone in the face, Kylie was characteristically direct.
“Well, sometimes I have this underlying anger when people want to give unsolicited advice, so most of the comments that are unsolicited advice end up making me feel like I could fix this real quick with a punch in the face.”
She described the particular frustration of comments about taking the kids out when it’s cold, noting that most of the time she just walks ten steps from the car to a Dunkin’ Donuts to get what she called “sanity juice,” a coffee.
“I need you to get so far away from me that you’re actually in a different zip code,” he said.
A separate category of comments that irritate her are what she called “just wait” comments, things like warnings about upcoming sleep or teething regressions.
He said he tries hard not to make those types of comments, knowing that they don’t always come as expected.
“There are times when you have to make jokes with a mom, and sometimes you don’t get it right,” he said. “When people tell me that, I think it hits my eardrum sharply.”
He added that he tries to give people grace, but acknowledged: “They are difficult.”
Kylie shares daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 5, Bennett, 3, and Finnley, known as Finn, with husband Jason Kelce. Finn will be one year old on Monday, March 30.
