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Donna Kelce with sons Travis Kelce and Jason Kelce.
Donna Kelce opened up about raising sons Jason and Travis Kelce on daughter-in-law Kylie Kelce's Not Gonna Lie podcast
Kylie asked Donna which of the brothers was more of a challenge to raise
Donna also provided some shocking stories about Jason and Travis' childhood antics
Mama Kelce had her hands full with her sons Jason and Travis Kelce!
Donna Kelce, the 73-year-old mom of the two NFL players, opened up about raising two boys with her now-ex-husband, Ed Kelce, while appearing on her daughter-in-law Kylie Kelce’s Not Gonna Lie podcast from Disney World on Thursday, Nov. 6.
“Now, is there one that you would say is tougher or just different [to raise]?” Kylie asked of Jason, 38, and Travis, 36.
“You know, I think Jason, because he was the oldest and, you know, always the elder child in the family, not all the time, but especially with Jason, he would tend to listen and follow the rules,” Donna replied. “Yeah. Travis isn't a rule follower.”
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Donna Kelce, mother of Jason Kelce and Travis Kelce attends Super Bowl LVII
Donna went on to share one particularly scary story about a 3-year-old Travis stealing her car keys.
“I used to have to keep the keys up high, just like I had to keep the knives up high,” she recalled. “And Travis, for some reason, was opening up the drawers and he was climbing up them. He was 3, climbing up … And I'm all by myself. I go out the back door and there's the two of them sitting in the car. Now mind you, the car was locked.”
Donna noted that Travis would watch his parents closely to determine how to use their keys.
“He knew exactly what we were doing,” she said. “He knew how to unlock the car door, get into it, and then slam it shut. And I don't know how he did it, but somehow, and thank goodness, it was not an automatic. He put the keys in the car, he knew exactly what to do and turned it on and it jumped and went right through the garage door.”
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Jason, Donna and Travis Kelce pose on the set of 'Saturday Night Live.'.
The mom of two was relieved that Jason was sitting right alongside his brother, noting, “He could have been standing in front of it. It could have been a really bad moment.”
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Jason and Travis Kelce pose with mom Donna Kelce.
That wasn’t the only close call Donna experienced with her young sons. She shared that one day after picking up Jason from daycare, she was inside changing when she heard someone shout, “Oh my God, he’s got a knife!”
“I knew who it was immediately,” she said. “I knew it was Jason. He was the only one that was tall enough who could reach them. And I literally had them high up in a cabinet because I had to keep everything sharp away from both of them. But yeah, I ran out there. I only had my shorts on and a bra. I literally ran out. And then everybody was clapping on the street.”
She said that Jason was throwing the knives in the air and watching them fall down with Travis staring up at the scene.
“I'm like, ‘Oh my God, they could have went right through his head,’ ” she recalled. “But yeah, that was a scary time. That was a scary one.”
Now that she’s the grandmother to four granddaughters, Donna highlighted the biggest differences she sees between raising girls and raising boys.
“The thing that just amazes me is how they will sit down and do a craft for a certain period of time,” she said of Kylie and Jason’s daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 4, Bennett, 2, and Finn, 7 months. “That wasn't my experience. It was constantly running around, jumping off of things, getting into trouble, running out the door, starting the car up, you know, when they were 3. They got into a lot of stuff.”