Donna Kelce Makes Rare Comments About Marriage to Ex Ed Kelce

Donna Kelce Says She and Taylor Swift Have the "Best Time" astatine Travis Kelce's Games (Exclusive)

Donna Kelce is sharing immoderate uncommon penetration into her past marriage.

The ma of erstwhile Philadelphia Eagles halfway Jason Kelce and Kansas City Chiefs choky extremity Travis Kelce got candid astir wherefore she chose to enactment joined to her ex-husband Ed Kelce for years.

“My hubby and I knew that our matrimony was not working, but we stayed unneurotic for the kids,” Donna explained successful her Glamour Women of the Year screen story. “Ours was a precise affable relationship. So, we could bash that and marque definite that their beingness was mean arsenic possible. But successful that 1 respect, I did basal inactive for respective years until I could determination connected on my own.”

The 71-year-old said she worked passim the NFL stars' adolescence to assistance supply for her family.

“I was a commercialized banker for a slope successful respective antithetic states. I wanted to get ahead. I worked really, truly hard. I was a large breadwinner successful the family,” she shared. “And I deliberation it’s important for kids to spot that a pistillate tin bash immoderate she wants, but I did basal still, too.”

The erstwhile mates were joined for 25 years earlier choosing to divorce.

"We worked unneurotic arsenic a squad and it's very, precise hard to rise children connected your own," Donna said connected The Martha Stewart Podcast successful May. "We decided that we would beryllium joined passim the full clip that the kids were successful the house, and that's the mode it worked out."

Taylor Swift’s longtime fellow has besides commented connected his parents’ past marriage. In the 2023 Amazon Prime documentary Kelce, Travis said helium realized his parents’ matrimony was antithetic from others erstwhile helium noticed they didn’t stock a bedroom.

"I started making those connections erstwhile I was successful mediate schoolhouse and realized they were astir apt gonna split,” helium shared. “But they stayed unneurotic for maine and Jason's benefit, I believe.”