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Taylor Swift has fully embraced auntie mode ahead of her highly anticipated wedding to Travis Kelce.

“Everybody knows how close Travis is with his family, so it really means everything to him how seamlessly Taylor blends in with all of them,” a source exclusively told Us Weekly in January 2024 of Swift’s easy rapport with Kelce’s relatives. “His family is all about just hanging out, joking and having a great time. It’s almost like she’s known his family forever, and he loves that about her.”

Swift and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end have been together since summer 2023. In the years since, the pop star has blended seamlessly in with the Kelce clan — including with the four daughters of Travis’ brother, Jason Kelce, and his wife, Kylie Kelce: (Jason and Kylie are parents of Wyatt, Ellie, Bennett and Finnley.)

Keep scrolling to learn more about Swift’s role as an aunt to the Kelce girls:

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Jason and Kylie Kelce’s daughters are over the moon to welcome Taylor Swift into their family. “The girls are thrilled. They’re so excited they’re getting another aunt,” Kylie, 33, said on the Friday, September 5, episode of Good Morning America, referring to her and Jason’s four daughters. “We could not be more excited for them […]

Taylor Swift Bakes for Travis Kelce’s Nieces

During her August 2025 debut on the Jason and Travis’ “New Heights” podcast, the pop superstar opened up about her hobbies, which she jokingly called “grandma” coded — including a sourdough fixation that has turned into a family-wide love language between her and Travis’ four nieces.

“Right now, we’re very deep in a sourdough obsession,” she said at the time. “I’ve been workshopping [one] for the girls because they love everything rainbow: Funfetti sourdough.”

She added, “They love sprinkles. We put sprinkles in everything when we hang out.”

Taylor Swift Introduced Travis Kelce’s Nieces to Her Cats

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Elsewhere during her “New Heights” debut, Swift revealed that she aimed to show the girls that cats weren’t poisonous despite Jason’s claims to the contrary.

“As soon as I got the kids around the cats, it was my goal to prove to them that they weren’t poisonous,” she said. “There’s no better way to prove that than to just hand them Benjamin, my ragdoll cat, who lets humans hold him like he’s a baby. My favorite thing ever is when Bennie will come up to me and just go, ‘I find Benjamin, I find him.’ And she’s just over there laying with him and petting him and holding him.”

Swift has three pet cats: Meredith Grey, Olivia Benson and Benjamin Button.

“The cats are so good with kids,” she gushed. “They’re just like, ‘Meredith is here!’ I’m like, ‘And you know what? She didn’t bite you at all, did she? And if she did bite you, she wouldn’t be poisonous.’ They’re like, ‘That’s not what our dad said.’”

Wyatt Kelce’s Favorite Taylor Swift Song

Long before Swift’s baking phase and feline hangouts, Jason and Kylie’s oldest was already a superfan. At Kelce Jam in May 2024, Travis told Access Hollywood that Wyatt has a clear favorite pick from Swift’s catalog.

When the interviewer rattled off tracks including “The Alchemy,” “Fearless” and “The Man,” Travis lit up at the last one.

“There’s so many. ‘The Man’ is my niece’s favorite, so we can always go with ‘The Man,'” he said, referring to Wyatt.

Swift later invited Wyatt and her sisters Ellie and Bennett to see multiple concerts onThe Eras Tour in 2024.

Meeting the Newest Kelce

Jason and Kylie welcomed their fourth daughter, Finnley “Finn” Anne Kelce, in March 2025. Swift subtly congratulated the couple by “liking” Kylie’s Instagram announcement.

Months later, Jason told Entertainment Tonight that Swift met the newborn in person.

“We were fortunate to have them all in. It doesn’t happen often — everybody’s busy — but it was really special,” he told the outlet in May 2025. “Thankfully we have a really tight-knit family that makes time for each other, and it’s been awesome.”

Taylor Swift Sits With Kylie Kelce and Her Girls at Chiefs Game

Kylie brought her kids to Travis’ home football game for the first time in December 2025, where they sat with Swift in a private box.

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“The girls had not yet seen Uncle Trav play in Arrowhead Stadium,” Kylie said on her “Not Gonna Lie” podcast later that month. “It was also super exciting to get to see friends and family that were there, because the girls were so excited to get to watch a game with all of them. They are not that interested in football, to be quite honest with you. They actually yell at us any time we try to put football on the TV and only get on board after a little while of realizing that they can freely yell.”

She added of her youngest daughter, “Finnie slept for, like, an hour and a half there, so she’s a real one. She actually slept through all the screaming and cheering, which is hilarious to me.”

This story was compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists.

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Meet Melat Kiros, the Ethiopian-born anti-Israel socialist crusader who is DSA’s rising star after stunning upset in Colorado

By Ryan King Published July 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m. ET

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WASHINGTON — Democratic socialism is spreading West.

Political newcomer Melat Kiros, 29, who took down 15-term Democratic incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Col.) in a stunning primary upset Tuesday, is riding a wave of anti-Israel and anti-ICE sentiment sweeping her party.

The Ethiopian-born PhD student has pushed to abolish Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), suggested that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks were “inevitable,” downplayed suggestions that a firebombing of a Jewish rally was an act of antisemitism, and more.

Once in the House of Representatives, which is considered likely because she’s in a safe blue district, Kiros has vowed to push Democrats as far left as possible and to oppose Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) becoming speaker.

Political awakening

Kiros refined many of her far-left views in law school at Notre Dame in the early 2020s, a period she describes as her political awakening, as the country was roiled by the COVID-19 pandemic and peak wokeness.

“I literally watched the Federalist Society handpicking some of my classmates onto the judge track in their decades-long bid to pack the courts,” she complained, according to Vox. “…I just lost faith in the system; I think a lot of young people did.”

Democratic congressional candidate Melat Kiros smiles at her primary election night watch party. — The democratic socialist has been a staunch critic of capitalism, Israel, and ICE. AP Photo/Rebecca Slezak

After law school in 2022, she joined the law firm Sidley Austin in New York, where she worked as a regulatory and enforcement associate. The following year, she was fired for writing a viral open letter lambasting law firms for pushing to crack down on antisemitism on college campuses.

“By chilling future lawyers’ employment prospects for criticism of the Israeli government’s actions and its legitimacy, you are complicit in Israel’s weaponization of anti-Semitism against legitimate concerns for the right of self-determination and the livelihood of the Palestinian people,” she wrote in the missive.

Sidley Austin demanded she take the letter down, but Kiros claims she refused and was fired as a result.

“I didn’t flinch because I stood by every word and I always will,” she boasted during her victory speech Tuesday.

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That move drew headlines and boosted her name recognition in lefty circles.

After losing her law gig, Kiros moved back to Colorado, where her family had immigrated while she was just 11-months-old. Her father had been picked in America’s Diversity Visa Lottery, per her campaign website.

Back home, she enrolled in a PhD program in public policy and worked as a barista.

Then, in the middle of last year, she decided to launch a seemingly long-shot primary challenge against DeGette, who is widely considered to be a very progressive lawmaker and has served in Congress longer than Kiros has been alive.

DeGette had the backing of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.

Diana DeGette speaking into a pink microphone at a League of Women Voters forum. — Rep. Diana DeGette was one of the more progressive members of the House Democratic Caucus. Denver Post via Getty Images

But Kiros’ candidacy caught fire with the DSA and other lefty groups that were hunting for candidates to take on incumbent Democrats and push the party further leftwards.

One of the major differences between the two was Kiros’ tougher stance against Israel. DeGette faced grassroots pushback for supporting defensive aid to Israel.

Kiros, however, made tough talk against the Jewish state a feature of her campaign.

For example, she told notorious lefty streamer Hasan Piker that the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack was an “inevitable consequence of apartheid,” though she later clarified she wasn’t trying to say it was justified.

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Piker is a very controversial streamer, having declared that “America deserved 9/11″ and praised the “brave mujahideen” who injured Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas).

In a similar vein, she told 9News journalist Kyle Clark that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were an “inevitable consequence” of US foreign policy.

Kiros has stirred local controversy for downplaying the role of antisemitism in the June 1, 2025, firebombing attack at a weekly Jewish gathering aimed at bringing attention to the Israeli hostages taken by Hamas. One person was killed and a dozen were injured in that attack.

Melat Kiros speaking to supporters at an election-night watch party. — Melat Kiros has indicated she won’t support Hakeem Jeffries for speaker. Getty Images

The attacker, Mohamed Sabry Soliman, screamed “Free Palestine” before later stating that he “wanted to kill all Zionist people,” according to the FBI.

Kiros repeatedly declined to call it antisemitism and told NOTUS that it wasn’t “entirely obvious that it was just motivated by antisemitism.”

Many of her positions are similar to those of other DSA members, including support for Medicare for All, a modified Green New Deal, and mass amnesty. Kiros also wants a 10% slash in Pentagon spending.

“People are seeing that capitalism is responsible for a lot of the degradation that we’re seeing in our economy, that we’re seeing in our democracy, that we’re certainly seeing in our climate as well,” she claimed in a recent interview.

“They’re demanding a new way to organize our economy.”

Should she win in November, she will be the first Gen. Z woman to serve in Congress and the second Zoomer overall, after Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.)

She is riding a socialist revolt within the Democratic Party, as far-left candidates have won primaries across New York, Maine, Illinois, and elsewhere heading into the midterms.

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