Kelly Stafford candidly reflected on the early days of her relationship with husband Matthew Stafford — and how far things have come for football wives and girlfriends since. After Kelly, 35, and Matthew, 36, met during their time together at the University of Georgia, Matthew was drafted with the No. 1 overall pick by the Detroit Lions in April 2009.
The couple married in April 2015 and have since welcomed four daughters: twins Chandler and Sawyer , 7, Hunter , 6 and Tyler , 4. “Honestly, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, what the first couple years as his significant other were like,” Kelly told Glamour in a story published Wednesday, November 20. Kelly now hosts “The Morning After” podcast — which she launched in September 2021 — and routinely talks about her life as the wife of an NFL quarterback, even welcoming Matthew as a guest sometimes.
But during her relationship’s infancy, Kelly was nervous to blend those two worlds in fear of what people might think. “For a really long time I did not want to take advantage of any platform I was given due to being married to my husband,” she says. “I felt like it wasn’t my place.
I felt almost dirty doing that.” All these years later, the concept of a WAG — an abbreviation for “wives and girlfriends,” most often used to describe individuals in relationships with athletes — has drastically morphed. “Women [now have] businesses and have this huge platform,” Kelly said.
“It is incredible to watch..