Travis: ”Kayla was an experience that fills me with remorse and regret”. Now, as my girlfriend and i navigate our journey, we must take care of our…..

The NFL star and content creator dated for five years before breaking up in 2022.

Before Travis Kelce struck up a high profile romance with singer Taylor Swift, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end was in a relationship with content creator Kayla Nicole. Nicole and Kelce starting dating in 2017. The tight end then revealing in a 2023 interview with The Pivot that the two had split. In addition to her career as a sports reporter, Nicole has also made a splash on social media as a fashion influencer with over 750,000 followers on Instagram. She also has her own YouTube channel and has developed a fitness brand.

Here’s what to know about Nicole. The couple began dating in 2017, one year after Kelce’s reality dating show, “Catching Kelce,” aired on “E!” They made their red carpet debut at the ESPY Awards in July 2018. Kelce later shared in a January 2023 interview on “The Pivot” podcast that he and Nicole dated for five years. Without providing the exact timing surrounding their breakup, he said he was “in the free market right now.”

“I’m out there just enjoying life, focused on my profession,” he adde. At the time, Kelce put to rest rumors that the two had broken up due to him not spending enough money on her. “Don’t buy into that s—,” he said. “I would never say that I was supporting her. She had a very financially stable life and what she was doing in her career.” “But you’ve got to be crazy if you’d think I would never helped or gave her a couple thousand to grab some food or she gave me some money to go get some food,” he added. “We were in a relationship for five years. A hundred dollars here, a hundred dollars there wasn’t even thought about.”
She graduated from Pepperdine

Sharing a video on Instagram in 2018 reporting in a Laker’s Jersey from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California, Nicole reminded her followers that she’s a 2013 Pepperdine University graduate. In the caption, she wrote that “hosting is where my heart is” and urged followers to check out her broadcast reel. Since graduating from Pepperdine, Nicole originally made a name for herself as a sports broadcaster and has reported from the sidelines of NBA and NFL games.

For Global Grind, she also dabbled in entertainment reporting, at one point interviewing Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler. Nowadays, Nicole utilizes her social media as a fashion model, partnering with brands like Revolve, Savage X Fenty and True Religion, among others. As a fitness influencer, she’s an ambassador for brands including Alo, Amino Lean, Fabletics and Champs. Tribe Therepē is Nicole’s own fitness brand, which she told People in October 2023 incorporates elements of therapy with physical exercise.

“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 told the outlet.