Learn about Kayla Nicole, the NFL player Travis Kelce ex-girlfriend.
The record-breaking tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs and the on-air reporter began dating in 2017 and had an intermittent relationship that lasted for five years.
In January 2023, the Ohio native clarified any confusion around their breakup, which included speculations that they split up for financial reasons. She made this statement in an interview with The Pivot Podcast.
“Kelly told the hosts not to fall for that shit.”
Nicole is attempting to “move forward” in her life, while Travis Kelce is currently seeing Taylor Swift. This involved removing pals Patrick Mahomes and Brittany from Instagram.
Everything you need to know about Kayla Nicole, from her journalism training to her fashion profession, is provided here.
She received her degree from Pepperdine.
Even before she met Travis Kelce, Nicole was passionate about athletics and even attended college to become a professional player. In 2018, she informed her Instagram followers via a “friendly reminder” that she earned a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism from Pepperdine University in 2013.
She wrote, “Hosting is where my heart is,” as the description for a video that showed her reporting from outside the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, while wearing a Laker suit.
She works as a sports journalist on-air.
Nicole got hosting jobs at sports media sites including ESPN and Barstool Sports after graduating from Pepperdine. Nicole has made a reputation for herself covering NBA and NFL sidelines as well as courtside, but she has also covered entertainment news.
She conducted interviews with Sterling K. Brown for his 2019 Angry Bird 2 press tour and Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler for Global Grind during their 2017 and 2019 press tours for The House.
She’s an influencer in fashion.
Nicole has worked in the media in addition to pursuing a career in modeling. She is a brand ambassador for Revolve, Crocs, and Savage X Fenty, among other fashion labels.
Nicole uses her Instagram account to share her work as well as her passion for exercise and health. The model also owns the fitness company Strong Is Sexy.
On Instagram, she got to know Travis Kelce.
Nicole has said that she originally connected with Travis Kelce on Instagram, but it’s still unclear when they actually met. She said, “He had been insta-flirting and following me for a few months,” in an Instagram Story that was later removed and was seen by TMZ.
“No dm and all double taps. I DM’d @iqueenb on New Years’ Eve after getting a little liquid courage and a motivational speech (something like “WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?”).
She and Kelce had an intermittent connection.
In 2017, following their first Instagram direct messages,Travis Kelce and Nicole began dating. Over the ensuing years, they broke up and then reconciled multiple times.
The pair separated for the first time in August 2020. Fans had been speculating about Travis Kelce and Nicole’s breakup since Nicole had removed images of the football player from her Instagram account a week before. Kelce then confirmed the news.
Following reports that Travis Kelce had cheated on Nicole with a “Becky,” which he refuted in a since-deleted tweet, the confirmation was made. According to a screenshot from TMZ, Kelce posted on Twitter, “This is fake news… a lie… and not why Kayla and I broke up,” “Take all your hatred somewhere else please.”
November of that year saw the couple reunited after a few months apart. By referring to Nicole as “my girlfriend” in an Instagram Live with WNBA player Chiney Ogwumike, Travis Kelce announced their reconciliation. Nicole is the best, according to Travis Kelce. “She’s the absolute best.”
They split up once more in May 2022. Barstool Sports said at the time that Nicole and Travis Kelce broke up because Travis Kelce had her pay for “half of everything” while they were dating.
But in a January 2023 interview with The Pivot Podcast, Travis Kelce refuted the claim that he was “too cheap,” saying, “don’t buy into that s—.” “I would never say that I was supporting her,” he went on. She led a fairly secure existence in terms of money and her professional endeavors.”
He then on, “But you would be insane if you thought I would never lend a hand or give her a few thousand to buy food, or if she gave me some cash to buy food. We dated for five years.” There was no consideration given to a hundred dollars here or a hundred dollars there.”
Some NFL WAGS are still close friends of hers.
Nicole made a lot of friends who were NFL spouses and girlfriends while dating Kelce. She’s had difficult times and maintained friendships with a few people.
Fans saw that Nicole unfollowed Patrick Mahomes, the teammate of Travis Kelce, and his wife Brittany on Instagram in October 2023. The information was released following Brittany’s dinner date in New York City with Blake Lively and Sophie Turner, who was accompanied by Kelce’s girlfriend, Taylor Swift.
In the midst of rumors that the two friends had broken up, Nicole exclusively revealed to PEOPLE that “the reality” of their circumstance is far more complicated and that she had spoken to Brittany about it in private.
“That’s a lot of history and friendship there, that doesn’t change overnight,” she said. “But I have to defend myself in public because things are occurring so fast and in such a visible way. That is all there is to it. The affection endures.”
Nicole got back together with a couple of the wives of San Francisco 49ers players before Super Bowl LIII. Fans speculated that since the Chiefs were playing the 49ers in the big game, this was a shot at Travis Kelce.
She speaks her truth using her platform.
Nicole shared a heartfelt statement she wrote in an Instagram video on October 9. In response to the “backlash” she’s received from internet trolls, including her ex-boyfriend Travis Kelce, she sent an open letter to Black girls.
Before starting her speech, she addressed the camera and said, “It’s always been really important for me to use my platform, not to create division, but to elevate and unite women, Black women specifically.”
“They might call you a traitor for falling in love, my Black girl. You’ll think that those closest to you will defend you, but you’ll soon realize that people don’t defend what they don’t believe in. They’ll tell you that you’re not enough while also complaining that you’re too much, too opinionated, too boisterous, and too provocative.”
Nicole went on, saying, in part, “They’ll say you deserve the shame and criticism. You were Black, so you ought to have known better. They’ll even make an effort to link your worth to your wealth. But remember, Black girl, that your true worth is found somewhere else. Your heart knows how valuable you are.”
She has a fitness company.
According to Nicole, who spoke with PEOPLE in October 2023, she is “very excited” to be relaunching Tribe Therepe, her fitness brand, which is centered on “feel-good fitness” and incorporates the tools she has acquired in therapy into the workouts she shares with her fans.
“It’s focusing on the mental health component of working out, which is really, really important for me and really resonates with me, and really just encouraging people to mentally take care of themselves,” she explained. “I think that when your mind is in a healthy place, your body will follow.”
Nicole claimed that after experiencing a “major breakup” and “major life change,” she “lost a substantial amount of weight within a very short amount of time” and stopped eating and sleeping. “When I post something, people comment, ‘You look so good.'” Share your tricks with us. You appear fantastic. And I think, ‘I’m really sad. I’m not happy. “I’m sad,” Nicole acknowledged. “I possessed an incredible six-pack of abs. “I had never felt so bad in my life,” the person said.
“After that, I began attending therapy and soon came to the realization that having physical fitness was one thing, but having mental fitness was quite another. Even if you are in the best physical condition of your life, it won’t feel good mentally if you are sick.”
It’s “done” that she dates athletes.
Nicole revealed in a January 2024 Behind the Likes podcast interview that she is open to dating “men in positions of power” who aren’t athletes.
“I’ll never say never, but I fully, wholeheartedly believe that I am out of the athlete stage,” she stated. “I do think that I am attracted to men in positions of power, and I also think that those types of men are attracted to me.”
She continued by saying that she would still like to share her enthusiasm for sports with her future spouse by going to games.
“I would love to date an executive of a record label or a movie producer so that we can go to the sporting events,” she stated. “Let date night be courtside at the Laker game; that’s my kind of guy.”
