Not gonna lie, Kylie and Jason Kelce‘s engagement story has Us laughing out loud.
“His proposal fit us perfectly,” Kylie, 32, said on the Sunday, January 12, episode of Allison Kuch‘s “Sunday Sports Club” podcast. “We dated, I believe it was three years before he proposed. It was a weekend at training camp, so I was fully convinced that we were not getting engaged for another year. … Once football starts, it’s football. There is nothing else.”
According to Kylie, the couple went to see her parents for dinner on one of Jason’s rare days off before the NFL season began, bringing their dog along for the ride. When the pair were getting ready to leave, Jason, now 37, was stalling.
“We go outside, we get in the car, we’re ready to leave and Jason turns and is like, ‘I gotta run back in,’” Kylie recalled. “And I said, ‘Really? This is the time you have to take a s—? … Hurry up.’”
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Kylie waited in the car while Jason went back inside. “Unbeknownst to me, [he] was asking my parents’ permission to ask me to marry him,” she said. “So he comes out less than five minutes later. I know my husband. That wasn’t enough time to take a s—. So he gets back in the car and I straight up said, ‘Go back in there and finish your business.’”
Kylie told Jason that she refused to stop on their drive home, but he kept insisting he was fine. “The whole time, he’s just silent and fidgeting. He’s like, ‘I don’t need to take a s—,’” she said.
The pair were still in the driveway when Jason finally popped the question. “He turns and he says, ‘This isn’t the most romantic way to do this, but I need you to get out of the truck,’” Kylie continued. “And as soon as he said ‘romantic,’ I knew immediately what was happening. Romance is not something this man is well-versed in.”
Kylie “immediately started crying” — and she doesn’t remember much else. “I blacked out. I have no idea what this man said to me. I’m pretty sure he asked me to marry him. I’m not 100 percent sure, but there was a ring involved and I put it on,” she teased.
The proposal took place “right on the front lawn of my parents’ house” with no photo or video evidence of the milestone. “Honestly, he nailed that part,” Kylie added. “It was perfect.”
She went on to joke, “I did feel a little guilty about the fact that it was a whole conversation about taking a s— leading up to [it].”
Jason and Kylie matched on Tinder when she was in college. “I sent him a pick-up line. I said, ‘I need LifeAlert. I’ve fallen for you and I can’t get up,’” Kylie recalled on the podcast, revealing how Jason reacted. “He messaged back and was like, ‘No, you gotta try harder.’”
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Kylie’s second attempt — “If I told you I work for UPS, would you let me handle your package?” — left him more impressed. At the time, none of Jason’s photos indicated that he played for the Philadelphia Eagles, but after a little digging online, Kylie found out the truth.
“My friends and I, of course, were like, ‘It’s a catfish,’” she recalled. “So, when he said, ‘You should meet us at this bar,’ my one friend who’s my ride-or-die friend … she was like, ‘We have to go because if it’s him, it’s hilarious [and] if it’s not him, it’s even funnier.’”
The pair’s first date didn’t go so smoothly — as some fans know, Jason was so drunk that he fell asleep at the bar — but the couple hit it off in the end. They tied the knot in 2018, welcoming their daughter Wyatt one year later. Their family expanded with daughters Ellie and Bennett in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Kylie and Jason announced in November 2024 that baby No. 4 — another girl — is on the way. “People put this strange pressure on the idea that my husband is supposed to have a boy because he’s gonna follow in his footsteps and he’s going to be a football player and he needs to play catch in the yard,” Kylie said on Sunday. “I hate to break it to you, but our kids play catch with him in the house all the time. He’s fine.”
