Jason Kelce's wife Kylie Kelce said their kids Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 5, Bennett, 3, and Finnley, 16 months, now want a family cat after getting to know "aunt" Taylor Swift's feline pets.
Karma is not just a cat purring in Taylor Swift's lap.
As it turns out, the Grammy winner's feline pets Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button have also become purr-fect companions for Jason Kelce and Kylie Kelce's daughters Wyatt, 6, Elliotte, 5, Bennett, 3, and Finnley, 16 months.
"I grew up in a cat-dog house, both at all times. And now, our kids have influences in their life—Aunt Taylor is a big one—where they get to be around cats," Kylie shared on the Aug. 20 episode of her Not Gonna Lie podcast. "Then, we go home and there are no cats, and they're like, 'But we want cats.'"
So much so, the 34-year-old revealed that her girls now gravitate toward "anything cat-related."
"I'm like, 'Jason, I need you to lock in here. There is cat need in this house,'" Kylie continued, explaining that her husband of eight years is allergic to feline hair. "And he won't he won't hear me out."
Indeed, Jason is not a cat person. The Philadelphia Eagles alum, whose family includes Freddie the German shepherd and Nessie the Irish wolfhound, previously admitted that he told his daughters that cats are "poisonous" to get them to lose interest.
“I'm like, 'Listen, If you have a cat, the government will come and take it from you because it's they're so lethal that they can kill you,'" Jason, 38, quipped during a 2024 episode of his and brother Travis Kelce's New Heights podcast, explaining that the lie makes it so "I don't have to deal with having a cat and make them terrified."
“I gotta get these kids on my side. Otherwise, I'm in a sinking ship," he continued. "I don't want another animal in the house. My dogs have already ruined the furniture."
But his attempts to persuade the girls have ultimately been thwarted by Taylor, who officially became aunt to Jason and Kylie's daughters when she married Travis this July.
"As soon as I got the kids around the cats, it was my goal to prove to them that they weren’t poisonous," Taylor, 36, shared during her 2025 appearance on New Heights. "There’s no better way to prove that than to just hand them Benjamin, my ragdoll cat who lets humans hold him like he’s a baby."
In fact, the 7-year-old feline has even slightly won over Jason. As he sheepishly put it, "Well, the only one that would go near me was Benjamin."
For a closer look at Jason and Kylie's home life with their girls, read on…
In October 2019, Jason Kelce and Kylie Kelce welcomed their first baby together, a daughter named Wyatt Elizabeth Kelce.
Their second daughter Elliotte Ray Kelce joined the family two years later.
