Kylie Kelce and her husband Jason are back from their week-long Olympics adventure where they watched the women’s hockey team’s exciting gold medal win over Canada in overtime. After they got home, Kylie and Jason got right back into family life, beginning with a birthday and a blizzard. Their third daughter, Bennie, turned three on February 23, which coincided with that huge snowfall in the northeast. Bennie’s birthday was the subject of the “Let’s Get Honest” segment on Kylie’s podcast, Not Gonna Lie, this week. She also announced that this is the year that they’re weaning her off of the pacifier, and in true Kylie fashion, she warned anyone who criticized Bennie still using the paci to back the F off.
“The age of 3 is going to come with losing passies,” she said of her daughter’s pacifiers, adding, “For all of those people who are gonna get in the comments and be like, ‘By 3 years old, she should have already lost the passies.’ Hey, I’m gonna need you to sit down. You actually came to the wrong place, and we don’t accept that type of bulls— around here. So I’mma need you to just kick rocks, not the place or the time or the person.”
In addition to ditching pacifiers, Kylie added that Bennett also needs to “take no for an answer,” before joking, “Super simple.”
As for Bennett’s behavior as a newly minted 3-year-old, Kylie said she doesn’t expect her daughter to have a typical “threenager” attitude.
“Everyone talks about the terrible twos. I didn’t find two to be terribly crazy with Benny,” she said, later adding, “I would love to say that Benny is going to be a threenager, but she already did the teenager thing at 2. So 3 will be a fun surprise. Every single age has been different for every kid, so it’s hard to predict what’s about to happen.”
She jokingly admitted that Bennett’s older sisters, Wyatt, 6, and Elliotte, almost 5, have “worn down” their parents ahead of Bennett and Finn’s, 11 months, arrivals.
Kylie and Jason, 38, meanwhile, kept Bennett’s birthday celebrations low key due mostly to the massive Nor’easter blizzard that hit their home in Philadelphia.
“To celebrate Benny’s birthday, we had Elsa deliver snow,” Kylie joked. “You know, when you’re good, you’re good. And, apparently, we nailed that, because Benny was very excited about Elsa’s delivery, because it was a massive snow. We literally got hit with a blizzard.”
She added that Bennett’s birthday meant it was a day of “Benny gets to pick” and she selected watching Frozen 2 before playing in the snow and eating some chocolate cake.
Kylie also shared that Elliotte’s fifth birthday will take place next week.
“The girls have very much come to understand that when it’s their sister’s birthday, it is their sister’s birthday,” Kylie explained. “Because like I’ve said a million times before, they’re not getting presents on their sister’s birthday. It’s not their day. Everybody gets cake. And that’s exciting enough.”
I love that Kylie always makes it very clear that Not Gonna Lie is a safe space free from judgment. In the past, she’s called out other types of judgment that women face, like birth plans, maternity leave, and unsolicited parenting advice. The reason Kylie is warning people not to get judgy about Bennie’s pacifier use is that doctors generally recommend taking it away by age three so that it doesn’t cause dental or bite problems. Every kid is different, though! Neither of my boys ever really took to the pacifier, so I never had to deal with when to take it away. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with Bennie still using hers. She got a little sister last year. Maybe she needed the paci to self-soothe. People really should mind their own business or go “kick rocks.”
Of course, Kylie took a minute to address the women’s hockey team’s win as well as the controversy with the men’s hockey team by pointing out that in this year’s Olympics, the women of Team USA won eight out of its 12 gold medals and 21 out of 33 medals overall. She also cheered on the statistic that it’s the sixth consecutive Olympics where American women have won more gold and total medals than the men and concluded that our female athletes are “carrying Team USA on their backs.” After dropping those truths, Kylie then referenced Trump’s distasteful sexist joke and said, ”And to that, I say, ha ha ha ha ha. It gives you something to laugh about. Let’s f-cking go, ladies!”
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On the one hand, people don’t need to say mean things to strangers on the internet. You can just not. On the other hand, you also don’t need to put your children’s lives on the internet for strangers to look at.
It’s doesn’t really sound like you’re weighing those two things equally. We really can actually just be kind when people share their lives with us.
I relish being a barren old maid, but enjoy Kylie’s content. Being a female human is hard. We need to support each other and stop with the mom judging. (Other than Keen, who I will rail against eternally. Team Meghan! 😄) As long as the kids are well cared for and not being mean to their peers and siblings, they have to have their own personality and quirks. They are not property of their parents.
I have no children, can’t/wasn’t my gig.
That said I adore her, she’s hilarious and fun. I watch her podcast weekly, I enjoy the sass.
Kylie covering many of the female athletes at the Olympics was a lot of fun. Great escapism.
My friend recently had her 4 year old give up her bedtime pacifier use after their dentist had a firm talk with them about it. Her daughter agreed to a countdown of 10 days, marked with a sticker chart, and then gave up her pacifier to the pacifier Fairy in exchange for a new toy (and extra bedtime cuddles.) I’m glad they were able make it through this transition in a way that felt emotionally safe for her daughter.