{"id":264484,"date":"2025-11-01T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264484\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T07:34:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T07:34:15","slug":"kayla-nicole-appears-to-shade-ex-travis-kelce-with-halloween-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/264484\/","title":{"rendered":"Kayla Nicole appears to shade ex Travis Kelce with Halloween post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While eyes were definitely on model <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/08\/26\/has-taylor-swift-been-engaged-before\/85835092007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/08\/26\/has-taylor-swift-been-engaged-before\/85835092007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kayla Nicole<\/a>&#8216;s Halloween costume this year, many were paying extra attention to the song she used to showcase the look on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The influencer and sports journalist flaunted her look as R&amp;B soul singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2022\/03\/30\/toni-braxton-shares-traci-braxton-memories-after-death\/7215532001\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2022\/03\/30\/toni-braxton-shares-traci-braxton-memories-after-death\/7215532001\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Braxton<\/a> in a Friday, Oct. 31, Instagram post where she recreated part of the iconic music video for the track &#8220;He Wasn&#8217;t Man Enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She\u2019s an icon. She\u2019s a legend,&#8221; Nicole said of Braxton in the post&#8217;s caption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Many commenters applauded the song choice, and some assumed the lyric was a subtle dig toward her ex-boyfriend and NFL star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/28\/travis-kelce-celebrates-100-touchdowns-taylor-swift-dance-ophelia\/86945148007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2025\/10\/28\/travis-kelce-celebrates-100-touchdowns-taylor-swift-dance-ophelia\/86945148007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Kelce<\/a>, who is now engaged to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/taylor-swift\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/entertainment\/music\/taylor-swift\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Swift<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Braxton&#8217;s track, off her 2000 album &#8220;The Heat,&#8221; includes the lyrics &#8220;Do you know I dumped your husband, girlfriend?&#8221; as well as &#8220;Do you know he begged to stay with me? He wasn&#8217;t man enough for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kelce and Nicole dated for around five years starting in 2017, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kayla-nicole-online-hate-how-she-has-taken-control-of-the-narrative-this-past-year-exclusive-11808558\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kayla-nicole-online-hate-how-she-has-taken-control-of-the-narrative-this-past-year-exclusive-11808558\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Has Nicole commented on the Swift Kelce engagement?<\/p>\n<p>Nicole has not commented on her ex-boyfriend&#8217;s engagement to the Grammy-winner.<\/p>\n<p>During a New York Fashion Week event on Sept. 11, she dismissed a question from the Daily Mail about the engagement news, People reported. She also addressed the amount of online hate she has faced this year in a <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kayla-nicole-online-hate-how-she-has-taken-control-of-the-narrative-this-past-year-exclusive-11808558\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/people.com\/kayla-nicole-online-hate-how-she-has-taken-control-of-the-narrative-this-past-year-exclusive-11808558\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">People<\/a> interview.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\">&#8220;The opinions of others are only as big as you make them,&#8221; she told the outlet. &#8220;So if I don&#8217;t allow it to affect me, it simply won&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nicole dressed as another R&amp;B icon last year<\/p>\n<p>Nicole also went all out for Halloween last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBzIR4ZyzUs\/?img_index=1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DBzIR4ZyzUs\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dressing up as another R&amp;B icon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last October, she unveiled her look as &#8220;Goodies&#8221; singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/studiog\/life\/education\/2025\/08\/22\/ciara-on-music-motherhood-and-her-organized-chaos-life\/84184813007\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/studiog\/life\/education\/2025\/08\/22\/ciara-on-music-motherhood-and-her-organized-chaos-life\/84184813007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ciara<\/a>, donning a fur coat and swimsuit to recreate the &#8220;Ride&#8221; music video.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ciara\u2026..uh huuuhhhhh!&#8221; she wrote.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While eyes were definitely on model Kayla Nicole&#8216;s Halloween costume this year, many were paying extra attention to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[13716,228,236,13721,88,3976,37103,483,4136,22092,271,22442,3729,13723,13547,3,13270,13470,13560,5033,31558,4144,13692,32432,32434],"class_list":["post-264484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-entertainment","tag-fashion","tag-fashion-u0026-style","tag-hip-hop","tag-instagram","tag-kelce","tag-life","tag-life-now","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-now","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-style","tag-travis","tag-travis-kelce","tag-u0026","tag-urban","tag-urban-u0026-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}