Kelly Stafford doesn’t have the luxury of staying in the pocket.
The wife of Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford knew that starting her podcast The Morning After and becoming a more public figure would result in a super-charged level of scrutiny—of her and her family—but such is the life of a modern WAG these days.
A term, incidentally, that Kelly is all for redefining.
“I’m pretty old now in this game. Sometimes it’s tough to figure out the similarities with the young one or the young wives coming in or girlfriends,” the 36-year-old said on an August episode of Sydney Leroux and Ali Riley‘s BFFR podcast. “But obviously, it’s best if we do get together because that’s the community.”
And “being the quarterback’s wife,” Kelly noted, “there is a responsibility there.”
Yet while the mother of four daughters with Matt—twins Sawyer and Chandler, 8, plus Hunter, 7, and Tyler, 5—always expected to manage the home team during football season, she’s also often the family’s first line of defense when it comes to protecting them from unnecessary roughness online.