Kylie Kelce is a proud mom to four girls — but she doesn’t shy away from talking about the negative aspects of motherhood and pregnancy. Fans of her Not Gonna Lie podcast appreciate how open and honest she is, and in a bonus clip shared this week, Kylie explained why she thinks these candid conversations are so important for women.
Kylie explained that she is ‘super grateful’ for her pregnancies — but she doesn’t like being pregnant.
Part of Kylie’s appeal is that she’s not afraid to admit that she doesn’t enjoy absolutely everything about pregnancy and motherhood. In fact, she doesn’t particularly enjoy pregnancy — and she reminds other moms that that’s totally OK. Kylie explained that some women really appreciate that she’s open about “the fact that I don’t actually care to be pregnant, that it’s actually sort of that same dual-experience of they’re not dependent of each other.”
“I’m super grateful to be able to get pregnant, but I do not enjoy being pregnant,” she noted.
She added that it’s totally normal to experience negative emotions.
Being a mom is not always joyful — and admitting that doesn’t mean that moms don’t love and appreciate their kids. Kylie explained that some women still might experience mom guilt when they aren’t “finding joy” in all aspects of motherhood. She thinks talking about these negative moments and feelings more openly can help other women who might be struggling.
“You can have these thoughts and feelings, you can have these anxious moments, you can have this rage — experience this range of emotion, or even a step further, an actual mood disorder postpartum, but you can still love your child and be happy that your child is here and be happy to be a mother and to be grateful for the experience,” Kylie explained. “And I think that it’s so important for women to hear that.”
Speaking out is important because it shows other women that they’re not alone.
In the clip, Kylie went on to say that some moms might experience an “immense amount of guilt” because of certain thoughts or feelings that they have. For example, “that you aren’t finding joy in everyday life, or it feels redundant that you get up every day and you do breakfast, and you do this, and you do that, and it’s the same routine every [day].”
“And so I think that the idea of encouraging women to speak out when they’re having those moments, the liberating feeling will be worth it,” she added.
Kylie previously opened up about her experience with ‘severe baby blues.’
During an appearance on Allison Kuch’s Sunday Sports Club podcast, Kylie spoke about how there are so many “aesthetic moms” on social media, which might make other moms feel bad or like they’re doing motherhood wrong. When Kylie welcomed her first daughter, Wyatt, her experience was far from what “aesthetic moms” portray on TikTok.
She admitted she didn’t feel connected to her baby at first. “We left the hospital and I was like, ‘So you’re telling me that this is mine?’” she revealed on the podcast. Even once she brought Wyatt home, Kylie’s early days of motherhood looked nothing like the “sensationalized social media moment of ‘look how beautiful my baby is.’”
“My baby cried from bewitching hour at 8 p.m. until 4 a.m. If I wasn’t holding her or she wasn’t on my boob, we were not on the same page,” she said. “We were not cool.”
Things only began to change for Kylie and Wyatt when Wyatt started to smile “on purpose.” “It showed that there was a connection,” she explained. “Before that, I felt like I was just a sleep-deprived stranger trying to keep this tiny human alive.”
