After being dragged into Travis Kelce’s and Taylor Swift’s new romance the NFL stars, ex girlfriend, Kayla Nicole unfollowed Brittany and Patrick Mahomes on Instagram but wasn’t expecting for fans to notice.
Now in an exclusive interview with People, Kayla is opening up about her reasoning for unfollowing the couple. During the conversation she revealed that she had personal conversation with Brittany in private. “I do think it’s important to publicly address this because I did publicly unfollow people,” Nicole says. “The reality is I know these people in real life. And so, in real life, I’ve communicated to these people why I’ve had to publicly make the decisions that I made.”
Nicole and Brittany were close friends after she was in a 5 year relationship with Kelce but most recently Brittany was seen kicking it with Taylor Swift during the Kansas City Chiefs game on Sunday. Nicole says, “To everyone it’s like, ‘Oh, you broke up a year ago,’ and that meant it’s like a light switch, you turn it on and off and everything goes dead and black and you don’t ever speak to anyone ever again. That’s not reality. I have ongoing relationships with all parties involved.”
The content creator says she and Brittany “have had our conversations” recently. “She knows that I love her,” Nicole adds.
“That’s a lot of history and friendship there, that doesn’t change overnight,” she continues. “But publicly, because things are happening so quickly and so publicly, I have to protect myself. That’s really all that is. The love is still there.”
“I still love my KC people and my KC community so much,” she says.
“But for me in my life, I have to move forward and everyone has to respect that. And hopefully when they respect that, that means that they’re no longer inserting me into things that do not involve me.”
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Since being in the news Kayla says she is mainly focused on her fitness brand which she is relaunching.
“It’s focusing on the mental health component of working out, which is really, really important for me and really resonates with me, and really just encouraging people to mentally take care of themselves,” she said, explaining, “I think that when your mind is in a healthy place, your body will follow.”
“Just full transparency, I went through this major breakup, major life change, and I had lost a substantial amount of weight within a very short amount of time. I wasn’t sleeping, I wasn’t eating. I was really abusing melatonin to sleep at night,” she shared.