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A few weeks ago, Kylie and Jason Kelce announced that they’re expecting their fourth daughter. Baby Girl #4 will join big sisters Wyatt, five, Elliotte, three, and Bennette, 20 months. Last Thursday, Kylie’s new podcast, “Not Gonna Lie” premiered. The episode has already surpassed Joe Rogan as the #1 podcast on both Spotify and Apple Charts, which is pretty cool.
During the first ep, Kylie did a segment called “Five-ish Questions” in which she answered a few questions that were taken from fans. The first question was about Bennette crying in the picture of the pregnancy announcement (she’s still upset because she doesn’t like to share her mama with anyone else) and the second one was about pregnancy in general. Kylie shared that she “cannot stand” being pregnant because she’s nauseous for most of it and rather than having cravings, she gets food aversions. Pregnancy is not a “good time” for Kylie.
“I always say I am so incredibly grateful to be able to get pregnant—unbelievably grateful,” she said in the Dec. 5 premiere episode of her new Wave Sports and Entertainment podcast Not Gonna Lie. “I have realized in my adult life that it is not as easy to get pregnant as we were originally led on to believe in high school.”
However, Kylie—whose brother-in-law Travis Kelce and his girlfriend Taylor Swift have already shown their love for the sweet news—continued, “But it is a means to an end when I tell you that I cannot stand being pregnant. I mean it. I don’t have a fun time.”
Because for the 32-year-old, pregnancy comes with a number of uncomfortable symptoms.
But Kylie isn’t the only Kelce family member to have mixed emotions about her pregnancy. In fact, her youngest, Bennett, has not yet come around to the fact she’s going to have a younger sister.
“When I tell you that Benny feels deeply and personally victimized by the fact that we chose to give her another sibling,” she said, “I mean that with my whole chest.”
Kylie went on to explain that Bennett can get a little possessive of her mom.
“When other babies or little kids come over and they try to sit in my lap, she physically removes them,” she shared. “So, we are about to ruin her day.”
I’m sorry to hear that Kylie is so miserable while she’s pregnant. In terms of nausea, I was lucky with both of my pregnancies and only threw up once, with my second one. Similarly, my only food aversion was tapenade (and that son, funnily enough, now LOVES olives). Anyone have any really weird ones? I got so lucky in those regards. I was in a lot of physical pain with my younger son, though, and by the end, could barely sit up. I ended up having hernia surgery under my belly button when he was eight months old. Women really do go through so much with pregnancy, even the easier ones. I wish society would recognize this and respond with more compassion than it does now. Hopefully, this pregnancy will be an outlier for Kylie and she’s more comfortable.
I listened to the entire episode and it’s pretty good. She’s humble, funny, and likable. She also lightly trolled her husband’s podcast. I laughed when she joked that she and Jason “don’t have that formula” to make a boy. Kylie pledged to keep every episode under 45 minutes because she knows that a lot of women do not have time to listen to a podcast that’s hours long. I appreciate that! Kaitlin Olson is her guest for the second half of it. You can tell Kylie’s nervous and hasn’t quite found her footing yet, but it’s only the first episode. She’ll find her groove. I listened to it through the Podcasts App on my phone, but you can also watch it in video form here.
I listened to it and enjoyed it. I don’t know very much about her. Having been introduced to the Kelces because of Taylor, I’ve listened to New Heights for probably a year–not every single episode though. What I know of Kylie is through the lens of the brothers–she’s strong, capable, a good mom and seems like a bad-ass. The podcast seems like a way for her to set records straight on her own life and have interesting conversations with other women.
I did not know she has a degree in communications! You can tell she’s a little nervous and doesn’t really like to talk about herself. But I think she’s put a lot of thought into what she wants out of the podcast, and I like that she doesn’t want to waste the precious time moms have.
On another note, Kylie’s podcast dethroned Joe Rogan’s podcast with the No 1. spot on Spotify this week. Blows my mind. I enjoyed the episode, but think that ranking might have more to do with how much people like her? Anyway I’m very happy that Joe got unseated by a woman like her.
I also hate pregnancy. I have three kids and I really love being a mom but pregnancy was terrible. I was sick with all three. I got preeclampsia in the first one and had 8 weeks of bedrest for high blood pressure with my third. Three C-sections. It was miserable. I am grateful like she is that it was easy to get pregnant.
Pregnancy is the worst! I retained so much water with my first, that I lost 40 lbs. in two weeks after giving birth. No joke. And my second was a week late, and I had to be induced. I felt so stretched I was in constant discomfort, and kept thinking about the alien that jumps out of people in the Alien movies. Having said that, I am very grateful for my two successful pregnancies. I’m grateful I was able to get pregnant naturally, and carry them to term with only discomfort and no serious complications.
My friend had morning sickness through the entirety of her pregnancy. She had to keep a big gulp cup in her car for the ride to work!
I remember one of my friends enduring miserable swelling – feet & hands = bigger shoes & temporary wedding band. And nausea right through to the end – pain from contractions had her throwing up in the delivery room. The experience left her One&Done with having children.
Overall my pregnancies weren’t horrible until the end, when I had horrible swelling with both (especially my first) and was just so uncomfortable. I only had a few instances of nausea and never threw up; my biggest symptoms were other GI issues (lol) and just being absolutely wiped out.
I still didn’t like being pregnant. There was a window maybe between 26-28 weeks when I felt cute and active and enjoyed it somewhat but that was very very brief. I just didn’t like having trouble getting up from the toilet because of my belly, didn’t like having to pee all the time, didn’t like the swelling, etc.
My mom had four kids and told me she loved being pregnant. I was like, “oh did you just feel completely normal the whole time?” and she said “oh no, I threw up every day for the entirety of each pregnancy” but she loved it because she ate whatever she wanted LOL.
So just to say – everyone is different. I dont think not enjoying pregnancy makes you a bad mother or means you don’t love your child, so I appreciate that women are being more open about how its not necessarily this magical glowing time.
I love it when it’s said out loud for the people in the back of the room. Not every woman feels a glow up when they’re pregnant. I was miserable. I felt miserable. I even made people around me miserable. It was not all “empowering feelings” and all that.
Same, I hated every second and wanted to punch people who told me what a precious time of life it is. Love my son, despised pregnancy.
I really love when someone public can articulate this so well because a more nuanced approach to trying to conceive, pregnancy, birth and motherhood is so so needed.
I always hated how I felt like I was supposed to be grateful for everything at the expense of other feelings. OF COURSE I was grateful to get pregnant and stay pregnant and birth health babies. Of course. But it was not sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, and it continues not to be into motherhood!!
I wish I could have walked around in my third trimester with a tshirt on that said “don’t talk to me, this sucks” without being judged.
Gonna guess they will pick a name that ends in a T sound for this girl too (or maybe more in an “it” sound)? Wyatt, Elliotte, Bennett? I’m not crazy about any of those names in general for boys or girls (one of my friends named her son Wyatt and I’m just meh about it) so I doubt I’ll like whatever name they end up picking. But I think Kylie has handled the media attention coming their way due to Travis getting with Taylor really well and I think I might listen to her podcast!
No throwing up with either of my pregnancies, but with my first I had an incredible aversion to vegetables. It was so bad I would send my husband to the veggie section to get his own because I couldn’t even look at them. I ate tons of fruit but the veggies made me gag.
Ok I’m going to be different because I loved being pregnant. I didn’t have any problems or I might not have liked being pregnant. I ate things that I didn’t eat before pregnancy like pizza and Chinese food. Never liked them before pregnancy and still won’t eat pizza after my two pregnancies but I will eat the occasional Chinese take away.
Me too! I’ve got 3 children. I had terrible evening nausea (but didn’t throw up, although I wished I could have, I swear I would have felt better!), but still loved being pregnant. Pregnancy was the only time in my life I could set aside my ED and eat with abandon 🤣 (not trying to make light of ED btw). I also loved breastfeeding!!!
Like Becks1 said, I’m not passing judgement on other women, that was just my experience.
Now I’ve got 2 in college and one that’s 3 years away from joining them so in many ways the baby stage was a simpler time 😵💫
I didn’t have traditional morning sickness in that I just randomly felt nauseous. I never threw up once. But in my first trimester, I had a big aversion to meat. I couldn’t look it, it smell it, or eat it or else I felt really nauseous. I’ll never forget my poor husband made this beautiful prime rib dinner for Christmas and I stared at it for about five minutes and then apologized and left the table. Thankfully that went away after my first trimester. The heartburn during the third trimester was intense – Tums were my best friend.
But like Kylie, I was so so so so so grateful to be pregnant. I never felt more beautiful or happy in my life than when I finally got to have my baby bump. I had wished for it for so long. I had lost 3 pregnancies in the first trimester and then had two years of infertility before I finally had a healthy pregnancy and had my beautiful daughter.
I remember my obgyn was pregnant at the same time as me, she was pregnant with her first and she told me how much more she was learning about pregnancy by experiencing it! For instance she used to congratulate her patients if they didn’t throw up, like that meant it was going well, but in fact not throwing up doesn’t mean much other than being able to retain the nutrition of the food instead of purging it away. Without the relief of vomiting, instead you are stuck in the purgatory of intense nausea that never relents!! That is nothing to celebrate. That was what the first half of pregnancy was for me. Unrelenting nausea just shy of vomiting. Ugh, it was awful. Luckily for me that was the worst of it!! My neighbor had horrible swelling on her entire body. Her face and nose were almost disfigured!! I, probably unsuccessfully, tried to hide my surprise when she opened the door one time. I barely recognized her and wondered when the elephant man had moved in next door to me!!
Love this. Was sick from conception to delivery all day every day with both of my pregnancies despite diclectin. I got really good at throwing up at work and at home. I would choose foods not based on what I wanted to eat, but based on how they would taste on the way back up. Orange jello my friends! If it wasn’t for Gatorade I would have absolutely been admitted to hospital. Then other things would set me off. I remember driving home from work and Dairy farmers were trying to make fetch happen with cottage cheese at the time and there was a billboard of cottage cheese as a topping for a burger!!!! Had to pull over and throw up on the sidewalk!!! I also had high BP and risk of pre eclampsia. Aaaaaaand in spite of ALL that, I’m still grateful for my pregnancies I chose and my children. When I was pregnant there was still so much stigma around not feeling like it was a glowing godly spiritual moment of blissful whimsy and rose petals…I barfed on the rose petals! And yes the beginning says “from conception”. I knew I was pregnant with my second when I had that familiar morning sickness feeling and threw up within hours of having sex!
With my first child, I could only eat pasta and fruit the entire pregnancy. Anything else gave me nausea. The second pregnancy I could eat everything, except I absolutely could not tolerate pizza, from the restaurant or grocery store. And it took about a year after the baby was born before the thought of pizza didn’t make me sick. So weird.