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- Kylie Kelce said that there are toys she wouldn’t want in her house on the latest episode of “Not Gonna Lie.”
- Her ‘please don’t buy this for my children’ gift guide includes toys with too much glitter and pets.
- Kelce’s podcast topped the charts on Spotify and Apple after its premiere last Thursday.
If you’re wondering what gifts to buy — or not buy — for kids this festive season, Kylie Kelce has got you covered.
On Thursday, during the second episode of her podcast “Not Gonna Lie,” the media personality and wife of Jason Kelce shared her “brutally honest” gift guide for kids.
“I don’t know about you guys, but I often see toys when I’m out shopping or scrolling social media, and I just think to myself, ‘Not in my house,'” she said.
Referring to the list as her ‘please don’t buy this for my children’ guide to holiday shopping, she recommended that other parents share it with “aunts, uncles, grandparents, friends — anyone who has asked, ‘What can I get the kids for Christmas?'”
“This is your opportunity to have me deliver that harsh reality,” said the soon-to-be mom of four.
1. Toys that require more than 5 minutes to assemble
When a kid sees a box with a picture of the toy, they will immediately want to play with it, the former field hockey player said.
“And you know what they’re going to do the whole time you’re trying to assemble it on a Christmas morning, a Hanukkah evening?” she said. “They’re going to stand behind you and say, ‘Are you done yet? Are you done yet?'”
“Don’t do that to people. Let’s not,” she said.
2. Anything with too much glitter
As a mom of three daughters, all aged 5 and under, Kelce said that “pretty much everything” they get has glitter on it. “It makes their hearts so happy. I can’t veto glitter as a whole,” she said.
What she doesn’t like about it is how glitter falls everywhere. “I need you to get something that glitter is sealed; I need it attached to that surface; I need it not leaving it,” she said.
3. Toys with no volume control
Kelce said that when her daughter Wyatt was 2, she received an electronic drum set. However, it didn’t come with volume control.
“I tried taping over the speaker, I tried putting it on a blanket when Wyatt wanted to play with it,” she said.
She eventually retired the toy a week later but said the same person, Ed Kelce, her father-in-law, got her kid a new drum set the following Christmas. Thankfully, the new drum set did have volume control, she said.
“But there’s still a lot of deep amount of guilt associated with the fact that I hid a Christmas gift from my child because I couldn’t stand to listen to that damn thing for one more minute at the volume that it was playing at,” she said. “I’m so sorry, Ed.”
4. Anything with a heartbeat
Her kids have yet to be gifted a pet, but Kelce said she fears that when the time eventually comes, she will have to respond by returning it.
Calling it a “sick, twisted joke to gift,” Kelce added that it’s the parents who will end up taking responsibility for the pet.
“I’m already proud of myself when I can keep three children alive each day. I don’t need to be working on any more pets, specifically pets that I have not chosen to bring into my household,” she said.
5. Toys with too many pieces
“Once the kids start playing with toys that have a million pieces, I then have to go around and pick up all the little pieces,” Kelce said. Eventually, pieces go missing, rendering the toys useless, and she ends up stepping on them, she added.
6. Toy weapons
Kelce said her kids have received a few toy weapons. On one occasion, her daughter, Elliotte, got “picked off” in the backyard by an airplane gun that Wyatt played with.
“So, they’ve proved that they have not earned the trust required to receive weapons, because they will try to take each other out, and I don’t want to mediate any of that again,” she said.
“Not Gonna Lie” dethroned “The Joe Rogan Experience” to take the top of the charts on Spotify Podcasts and Apple Podcasts after the release of its first episode last Thursday.
“It absolutely blew my mind,” Kelce said at the beginning of her second episode. “I really appreciate you guys having such positive feedback, considering I’m still a rookie, and we’re working out the kinks.”
The podcast is produced by Wave Sports + Entertainment, the company behind her husband’s podcast, “New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce.” In August, the brothers signed a three-year deal with Amazon’s Wondery worth over $100 million.
Kelce previously opened up about her rise to fame following her marriage to former NFL player, Jason Kelce.
“As public figures, Jason and I know there’s talk about our marriage, but we don’t give much thought to it,” Kelce previously told Business Insider.
“We use social media in a way that is authentic to us and I make a conscious effort not to offer us up for the opinions of others.”
A representative for Kelce did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular office hours.
