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The post Kayla Nicole reacts to online backlash amid Travis Kelce, Taylor Swift engagement<\/a> appeared first on ClutchPoints<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kayla Nicole is taking control of the narrative.<\/p>\n Following the end of her five-year relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce<\/a> and his whirlwind romance with Taylor Swift<\/a>, the sports reporter has faced a lot of online hate. The comments have magnified after Swift and Kelce announced that they\u2019re getting engaged.<\/a><\/p>\n Kayla Nicole spoke with PEOPLE during the House of Champions\u2019 New York Fashion Week event about the biggest lesson she\u2019s learned in the past year, emphasizing that \u201cthe opinions of others are only as big as you make them.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cSo if I don\u2019t allow it to affect me, it simply won\u2019t,\u201d she tells the publication. \u201cYou know what I mean? Sometimes on social media, we think that it\u2019s the whole world, and it\u2019s really not.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s an app with a couple of 100,000 million people, but you\u2019re in control of the narrative, honestly, and if something is holding you, bogging you down, turn it off,\u201d she added. \u201cDelete the app, log off. That\u2019s my biggest advice.\u201d<\/p>\n This follows the fitness model evading questioning<\/a> by the Daily Mail during the same event when asked what she thought about Kelce and Swift\u2019s engagement.<\/a> \u201cBut I\u2019m really happy to be here at Champion, though! This is a dope party,\u201d she continued as she dodged the question.<\/p>\n Kelce and Swift announced their engagement on Aug. 26 with the caption, \u201cYour English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married.\u201d<\/p>\n Kelce and Kayla Nicole dated on-and-off from 2017 to 2022 and the three-time Super Bowl champion began dating Swift in 2023. In October 2023, a month after the 14-time Grammy-winning singer made her debut at a Chiefs game, the model unfollowed Patrick Mahomes and his wife Brittany Mahomes, who are close friends of Kelce. She spoke out about her reasoning behind no longer following the couple<\/a> to PEOPLE at the time.<\/p>\n \u201cI do think it\u2019s important to publicly address this because I did publicly unfollow people,\u201d Nicole previously told PEOPLE. \u201cThe reality is I know these people in real life. And so, in real life, I\u2019ve communicated to these people why I\u2019ve had to publicly make the decisions that I made.\u201d<\/p>\n This is not the first time that Kayla Nicole has addressed hate she has received online due to her former relationship with Kelce. In a conversation with Chicago Sky star Angel Reese on her podcast, Unapologetically Angel, she and the WNBA player discussed what it was like to receive the backlash online.<\/p>\n \u201cI would be lying if I said that that level of hate and online chaos didn\u2019t impact me, even to this day,\u201d Kayla Nicole told Reese. \u201cYou could go to my most recent posts and people would be debating why I am worthless.\u201d<\/p>\n Kayla Nicole believed it was due to her own public persona that anchored the disrespect from online users.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is nothing to do with me,\u201d she continued adding that celebrity status has a lot to do with the extra attention. \u201cI think there is something about that level of fame that attracts crazy people, which is unfortunate because I don\u2019t think I have done anything to warrant that kind of backlash.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, no, no, no,\u201d Kayla Nicole responded.<\/p>\nKayla Nicole talks about social media backlash<\/h2>\n