Donna Kelce might have made headlines for bonding with Taylor Swift at Kansas City Chiefs games, but she’s been mother-in-law to Kylie Kelce for years.
Donna — who is mom of NFL stars Jason and Travis Kelce — became a minor celebrity after her sons’ respective teams faced off against each other in the 2023 Super Bowl. Her popularity exploded ten-fold seven months later when she was spotted cheering on the Kansas City Chiefs next to Swift, who sparked a romance with Chiefs tight end Travis.
Jason, for his part, tied the knot with wife Kylie in 2018 after meeting on Tinder. The couple share three children: daughters Wyatt, Elliotte and Bennett — and grandma Donna loves them all.
When asked who she was rooting for in the 2023 Super Bowl, Travis’ Chiefs or Jason’s Philadelphia Eagles, Donna offered a cheeky response that showed her love for her grandchildren.
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“I think that Jason would say that I am going to root for the baby in the family, which is Travis,” she told Today in February 2023. “And I keep trying to tell him ‘No, you’ve given me grandchildren,’ so we’ll leave it at that. It’s always about the grands.”
Keep scrolling to learn more about Donna’s relationship with Kylie:
Donna Knows Her Daughter-in-Law Has Everything ‘Under Control’
Kylie was nine months pregnant at the Super Bowl in 2023, about to welcome her third child with Jason. While everyone wanted to know what would happen if she went into labor at the game, Donna told E! News that Kylie — who flew with two doctors to Arizona, just in case — was “on top of it,” she told People, adding that Kylie had things “under control. (Jason and Kylie, who did not give birth at the game, welcomed daughter Bennett several weeks later.)
‘Best of Times’
Donna has nothing if not extensive love for her family — and that includes fun trips to the Disney parks.
In February 2022, Donna gushed about her sweet family vacation when sharing a series of photos of the family’s trip to Disney World. In one image, she posed with Kylie while looking down at her eldest granddaughters.
“#bestoftimes,” she captioned the photo, later reposting the pictures as a slideshow set to the song “Moments We Live For.”
In October 2023, she raved about the birthday party Jason and Kylie threw for daughter Wyatt.
“It was a perfect Birthday! HBD Wyatt!!!” Donna commented on Kylie’s Instagram photos of the event.
The Support Is Endless — And Meaningful
While Donna is known for her devotion to her sons — and their career — that support extends throughout the whole Kelce clan.
“What a treasure for the family!!!” Donna commented on an October 2023 photo of Kylie’s, promoting her husband and Travis’ Prime Video documentary, Kelce. “So proud of this documentary – you can tell it is a labor of love!!!❤️❤️❤️.”
Donna Explains Why Kylie Won’t Sit in the Family Suite at an Upcoming Game
Donna has no qualms about her daughter-in-law not sitting with the rest of the family at the November 2023 Chiefs vs. Eagles game, she explained on an October 2023 episode of the “Got It From My Momma” podcast.
“I don’t blame [Kylie] [if] she wouldn’t want to be in the suite, I wouldn’t think,” she explained.“She may not want to be there because everybody will be rooting for the Chiefs, so she probably will be down [near the field], like, rooting for the Eagles.”
Donna and Kylie Are ‘Very Similar’
“She is just one of those individuals that takes everything onto herself. She doesn’t need any help,” Donna exclusively told Us Weekly in January 2024. “We’re just very similar in our likes and dislikes and how we feel about the world and everything that goes on in the United States. So yeah, we pretty much have the same temperature when it comes to what’s going on.”
According to Donna, they also bonded over women’s sports.
Kylie Looks Up to Donna
In a June 2024 interview with Us, Kylie praised her bond with Donna.
“[Jason’s] mom was an outstanding example of a strong, independent woman, and still to this day, I tell everybody, ‘I wish I had the traveling abilities of my mother-in-law,’” Kylie gushed. “It is those traits that I think helped him understand that women can be a strong force, and that although they’re no longer together, his parents were very much a partnership in how they function, and it was a team effort.”
She added, “He had that example at home and he has taken that into his adult life, and he uses that as an example of how he shows me respect and love every single day.”
Kylie Calls Donna an ‘Expert Traveler’
During a February 2025 interview on the “Call Her Daddy” podcast, Kylie was asked about Donna’s best traits.
“My biggest thing that I appreciate about her is that she’s an amazing example of an independent woman,” Kylie said. “She is an expert traveler. [While she] and Ed are no longer together, they got divorced when the boys went to college, and she has not looked back. … She has been traveling, seeing the world [and] is really fulfilling all of her travel dreams. That is a cool example for our daughters.”
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