Kansas City Chiefs superstar tight end Travis Kelce has been in a high-profile relationship with the global pop music sensation Taylor Swift. Naturally, the pair has received an unfathomable amount of attention from the media and fans.
Now, the couple is sharing how they manage being under such intense scrutiny 24/7, especially in the social media age.
“I don’t see a lot of things. I’m a firm belief if you’re getting your feedback from the internet and comments, anything you feed your brain it will internalize, anything you feed the internet it will kill. I’ve been in the music industry for 20 years, it’s pretty hard to hurt my feelings at this point,” Swift said, according to Awful Announcing.
“She’s a pro and it took me a little while to be a pro about it, I think,” Travis Kelce added. “There’s still some wacko theories from the beginning that I was very like, ‘oh no, how is she handling this?’
“The last thing I want to do is screw things up. Her being so calm, cool, collected and so real and understanding about everything that’s going on really made me grow up real fast.”
“You genuinely find a lot of online discourse to be truly hilarious and that changes things for me. If he’s seeing things and he thinks it’s funny and it doesn’t even affect his day at all, that’s completely bled into the way I metabolize these things,” Swift said.
“Something can be about me. My name can be in the actual headline, and it can still be none of my business. People may be out here doing too much, doesn’t mean I have to do a damn thing.”
It’s refreshing to see the couple take such a measured approach to being in the public eye.
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Qwame Skinner has loved both writing and sports his entire life. In addition to his sports coverage at Comeback Media, Qwame writes novels, and his debut; The First Casualty, an adult fantasy, is out now.