{"id":783409,"date":"2026-07-06T21:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783409\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T21:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T21:10:08","slug":"kelly-stafford-felt-lost-during-matthew-staffords-first-nfl-year-romance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/783409\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Stafford Felt Lost During Matthew Stafford\u2019s First NFL Year, Romance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Kelly Stafford Shares Update on Kids&#8217; Hospitalization Ahead of Husband Matthew Stafford\u2019s Game<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1412231\/kelly-stafford-reveals-hardest-part-of-being-married-to-nfls-matthew-stafford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Stafford<\/a>\u2019s relationship with husband\u00a0Matthew Stafford\u00a0didn\u2019t kick off how she\u2019d hoped.<\/p>\n<p>The podcast host shared insight into the challenges she faced during the early\u00a0months\u00a0of her romance with the Los Angeles Rams quarterback, as their relationship coincided with his football career taking off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking back at Detroit, I would say I was happy because I loved him, but I was also unhappy because I didn\u2019t really know where I fit in or who I was,\u201d Kelly said during the July 1 episode of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dJgNwNlh3hA&amp;t=475s\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Cutting Edge\u00a0podcast<\/a>. \u201cThe move to L.A. really helped me realize I can be what I want to be, too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added, \u201cBut I do think you lose yourself in what everyone else expects you to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old met the football player, 38, as students at the University of Georgia, with their relationship taking off just months before he was drafted by the Detroit Lions in 2009.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amid his mounting success on the field, Kelly\u2014mom to their 9-year-old twin daughters\u00a0Sawyer\u00a0and\u00a0Chandler, as well as Hunter, 7, and\u00a0Tyler, 6\u2014shared how maintaining her own identity proved difficult.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelly Stafford Shares Update on Kids&#8217; Hospitalization Ahead of Husband Matthew Stafford\u2019s Game Kelly Stafford\u2019s relationship with husband\u00a0Matthew&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-783409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}