After dating the Kansas City Chiefs tight end for five years, Kayla Nicole says she thinks she’s done with her “athlete stage.”
While Kansas City Chiefs fans are celebrating the team’s spot in the upcoming Super Bowl, Kayla Nicole — who dated Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce for five years until 2022 — doesn’t foresee herself dating any more athletes.
During an appearance on the
“I’m so happy with what I did,” she said. “For me, personally, it was just like a buildup, like I needed to say something because at the end of the day, […] I was keeping the peace for everybody else, but like, what about the peace within me? What about my peace when I lay my head on the pillow at night?”
Now, in this new season of her life, Nicole is focusing on tapping back into her broadcast journalism roots and building her health and wellness platform, Tribe Therepe. Shutting out social media has been a part of that journey.
“When it comes to the internet, I’ve just learned that in the long run, it’s a waste of my energy,” she said. “I turned off my comments recently; you can’t DM me anymore because people just talk crazy,” she told the hosts. “I’ve had enough. […] It’s a new year, and to be honest, it’s the same me, so in order for it to be a new me, I need to do some new things. That starts with protecting my peace.”
While Nicole built a community based on her transparency on social media, she’s setting boundaries moving forward. She even joked about keeping her next relationship so private that by the time social media sees it, she will be married and have a three-year-old child.
Ultimately, despite the drama that came from her last romance, Nicole is not letting societal pressure impact dating at 32.
“All of my relationships have been building blocks to mold me into the woman that I am now, and so when I meet the right person, I’m not starting from scratch,” she said, sharing the best dating advice she’s received since the breakup. “[Instead] I’m starting from this developed, evolved, confident, self-assured version of myself, and I’m more ready now to be a wife or a mother than I was before. I didn’t lose any of those things that I learned in the past; if anything, I’m bringing value and something new.”
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