Inside NFL star Matthew Stafford and wife Kelly Stafford's home life
Matthew Stafford packed up his entire life in 2021 when he moved from Michigan to California after being traded in the NFL to the Los Angeles Rams. He had been the Detroit Lions' quarterback for years before the trade, and his wife Kelly and their four daughters had made a home in the midwest.
But Kelly - whom Matthew met when he studied at the University of Georgia where Kelly was a cheerleader - supported her husband and the family of six moved to California for a brand new life, where Matthew helped the Rams win the Super Bowl in his first season with the team.
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Kelly and Matthew met in their late teens at the college, and married in April 2015.
"I believe God placed us at the University of Georgia. You could have gone anywhere to school and yet you picked there … and it was a reach for me to get in, but by some miracle, I did. He wanted us to meet and see where it took us," Kelly shared on their three-year anniversary.
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"Now look … over 10 years later and today, 3 years of marriage … and still, each day, you remind me why you are so easy to love. Thank you for picking me to do life with."
They are parents to six-year-old twins Sawyer and Chandler, four-year-old Hunter, and two-year-old daughter Tyler. The three eldest girls headed off for their first day of school in late August, with Kelly sharing a series of pictures of the girls posing together.
The two have been together since college
"First day of school. Two kindergartners, one prek-er, and one Tyty," she captioned the carousel.
The loved-up couple are also not afraid to take to social media and mock one another, sharing rare insight into their home life.
In July Matthew joined Instagram and his first post was a picture of himself and Kelly, with Kelly cropped half out of the picture and the focus on his Super Bowl ring. "She’s a real beauty," he captioned the picture, adding a winking emoji.
Kelly and Matthew have shared insight into their relationship
In response, Kelly shared the same picture, only with Matthew cropped out, writing: "We look good together."
He then responded with a series of pictures of Kelly pulling funny faces or not looking her best, and she retaliated with pictures of Matthew being tackled on the football field.
But the pair have also been through enormous heartache as Kelly was diagnosed with acoustic neuroma, a rare non-cancerous brain tumor, in 2019. Shortly after the birth of their third child, daughter Hunter, she began experiencing symptoms like dizziness and almost dropped her daughter during a bad spell.
After being given a prescription for vertigo that failed to help, Kelly underwent an MRI which revealed she had a tumor sitting on her cranial nerves and she would need surgery to remove it.
The pair are parents to four girls
The 33-year-old was told that there was a 50 percent chance she could lose her hearing and a possibility that she could suffer facial paralysis.
After a grueling 12-hour surgery, Kelly's tumor was successfully removed.
Kelly shared details of her terrifying health battle in an essay she penned for ESPN later that same year, revealing that although she was able to make an almost full recovery, her "new norms" include not liking "loud, busy restaurants" as much as she used to and having to tell people that she is now slightly "hard of hearing".
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