Kylie Kelce Recalls Being ‘Ruthlessly Bullied’ for Her Height in High School

Kylie Kelce is opening up about past insecurities regarding her tall stature.

“I personally have struggled with [my height] in my life — no longer really do, because I’ve come to the point of really not giving a f— — but I am [five-foot-11]. I’ve always been taller than most guys,” Kelce, 32, said during the Thursday, January 2, episode of her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast.

Kylie noted that she feels “normal-sized” around six-foot-three husband Jason Kelce and his “fellow offensive linemen” and around her dad, who is six-foot-nine. However, she didn’t feel quite so inconspicuous as a tall high-schooler.

“I’m pretty sure I was already [five-foot-ten] as a freshman, and let me tell you, the boys were not,” she told guest Drew Afualo. “I got ruthlessly bullied by a couple people. … One of the worst of them was a guy, whose insult was always like, ‘You’re huge, you’re a man.’ And it took me until probably my senior year to be like, ‘Aw, you’re mad that you’re not my size.’”

While discussing Afualo’s preference for body neutrality over body positivity — which entails feeling gratitude for one’s body without seeing its features as either good or bad — Kylie noted that she has come to accept her height and no longer sees past comments as insults.

“You’re gonna look at me and be like, ‘You’re huge.’ Yeah, I f—ing am,” Kylie said. “There was a period of time where I was like, ‘Don’t call me big.’ I would be like, ‘I’m not big, I’m tall,’ or, ‘My thighs aren’t big, I’m strong.’ There was this whole idea that I had to switch the narrative of — not letting those words hold the weight that they expected them to hold with me.”

Kylie is currently pregnant with her and Jason’s fourth baby girl. She announced the news via Instagram in November.

“I feel like we captured a very accurate representation of how each of the girls feel about getting another sister,” she wrote via Instagram alongside a photo of her and Jason’s three older girls. “At least Ellie, mom and dad are on the same page! 🤷‍♀️.”

In the snap, Jason and Kylie’s youngest daughter, Bennett, 22 months, cried while Wyatt, 5, held her hands over her ears in shock. Four-year-old Elliotte, nicknamed “Ellie,” smiled from ear to ear.

As Kylie prepares to become a mom of four, she’s reluctantly accepting the fact that she’s going to have to get a minivan.

“As much as it pains me to say, minivans [are in for 2025],” she said during Thursday’s “Not Gonna Lie” episode. “I said what I said. And for the people, my friends, who are hearing this, I don’t need a wellness check, although I have told you before that that is what it would take if I ever said I was getting a minivan.”

Kylie added that the vehicle will be a temporary addition to her life.

“I’m about to have four car seats, four in one car, and we’re gonna do a little three-year commitment, guys,” she vowed. “We’re gonna grind it out, and then we’re gonna pretend it never happened. … And for those of you who are minivan lovers, like my husband, and think that I’m gonna get a minivan and then I’m gonna stick with the minivan, well, we’ll just have to wait and see.”