Jason Kelce is opening up about his wife Kylie Kelce’s pregnancy loss seven years ago.
“I remember going out to my truck in the middle of practice and meetings, overcome with grief and emotion,” Jason, 38, recalled on Wednesday, December 3, while accepting the March of Dimes Sports Achievement Award at the nonprofit’s 43rd Annual Sports Luncheon in New York City.
Per People, the retired Philadelphia Eagles player said, “You really find out in moments like those how awesome sports are [and] how awesome teams are. There are so many people that shared with me, coaches, teammates, people within the Eagles building, friends of ours, and you really find out how prevalent this actually is. How often miscarriages happen. And it’s something that I think, a lot of times, often doesn’t get said and spoken about.”
Jason called the experience “absolutely devastating,” and said that it was “hugely impactful” for him and Kylie, 33, to have support and realize they were “not alone in this.”
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He ended by thanking those who’ve given “time, resources, energy [and] passion” to the March of Dimes, an organization focused on the health of mothers and babies.
“The work that March of Dimes does is not abstract,” Jason said. “It’s not [a] statistic. This is family. This is kids, this is babies. So the support that everyone here is giving to families and parents around the country should not be understated. I greatly appreciate you guys being here. I appreciate this award.”
Kylie had introduced her husband, welcoming him onstage. In October, which is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month, she said on her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast that she had a positive pregnancy test in August 2018. Several months later, on Jason’s birthday, November 5, she learned that she’d lost the baby.
“I wanted to share some more details because when I experienced my miscarriage, I felt like a bunch of people came forward to support me and offer words of encouragement or love,” she said at the time. “So they divulged that they also had experienced losses. It is interesting how sometimes it takes you experiencing a loss for people to open up about their own.”
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Kylie, who now shares daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 4, Bennett, 2, and Finn, 8 months, with Jason, visibly choked up while describing the couple’s initial excitement. She found out that she’d miscarried at her 12-week appointment.
“It felt like everything went into slow motion. And they could not find the baby on the Doppler,” she said. “I remember being like, ‘Oh, there isn’t a heartbeat. You didn’t find one because there isn’t one.’ They estimated that the baby had stopped developing between, I believe, it was nine and 10 weeks. Essentially, I had had what you would refer to as a missed miscarriage. It means that your body did not realize that the pregnancy was no longer viable.”
Kylie wanted to “emphasize the fact that this still hurts after having four children because it does. And it’s OK for people who are still in their journey and not yet having gotten over the hump of, like, getting to meet your tiny humans that you’re making, I am so sorry. For people who have experienced loss and who still have gotten to meet some of their tiny humans, I am also sorry because it doesn’t not hurt.”
