Jason Kelce almost fumbled his first date with his now-wife Kylie. Almost. After swiping right on Tinder, Kylie initially assumed that the person she was talking to was not the Philadelphia Eagles player—but a catfish instead. However, she decided that either way, meeting the person on the other end of the screen at a bar was a good game plan.
“Right away when she walks in the door, the most beautiful woman I’ve ever seen,” Jason, 35, recalled in the Prime Video documentary Kelce, adding that was the encounter “very much like love at first sight.” But for Kylie, 31, the moment that sticks out the most from their date was when Jason decided to abruptly—but inadvertently—call it a night. “Forty-five minutes later, he fell asleep at the bar,” she explained, “like just, out, like asleep, asleep.” As Jason put it, their initial outing was “not the best first impression,” but he was determined to give it another go.
“The next day, he called,” Kylie noted, “and was like, can we try that again?” Fast-forward to November 2015, when they made their relationship Instagram official—with them tying the knot three years later. And after their intimate wedding, the pair would go on to tackle parenthood, welcoming kids Wyatt, 4, Elliotte, 2, and Bennett, 7 months. Simply put, for Jason, becoming a dad has become the ultimate win.
“I only have girls, so I don’t know what it’s like to be a boy dad really,” the NFL star exclusively told E! News in September. “All I know is a girl dad. And I love my girls. I love my children. They teach me things sometimes when I think that I’m trying to teach them.”
And there’s more heartwarming moments where that came from. Keep reading to see Jason and Kylie’s sweetest family photos.
