A recently resurfaced podcast clip showing Kristin Cavallari playfully telling Travis Kelce she was “in love with him” has drawn fresh attention — and just a week after his high-profile wedding to Taylor Swift, the reality star appeared to be making quite the statement.
The 39-year-old media personality shared a series of eye-catching Instagram photos on Friday from a girls’ getaway in Nashville.
Cavallari showed off her long legs in a pair of tiny frayed denim Daisy Dukes, pairing the look with tan cowboy boots that rose nearly to her knees.
She flashed a glimpse of her toned midriff in a brown suede lace-up top and completed the outfit with a small Prada handbag.
Her signature blonde hair was styled in loose waves, while her makeup stayed soft and natural, highlighting her sun-kissed look.
Cavallari was joined for the night out by friends Char Riley and Brooke Kronschnabel.
Kristin Cavallari shared a series of glamorous Instagram snaps Friday from a girls’ trip to Nashville
The trip was not solely about nightlife, however. The trio also squeezed in a workout, with one photo showing each woman holding a knee plank while balancing a 45-pound plate on her back during a gym session led by trainer Kevin Klug.
The blonde bombshell captured the snaps to her near 5million followers: ‘When the girls come to town.’
This comes after a resurfaced clip of her outrageously flirting with Kelce – while he was secretly dating Swift – has gone viral on social media.
Kelce was a guest on Cavallari’s ‘Let’s Be Honest’ podcast in September 2023, just days before pop superstar Swift made her first public appearance at a Kansas City Chiefs game, catapulting the pair into the spotlight.
Three years later, the pair are both back in the news this week – Kelce because of his wedding of the century with Swift at Madison Square Garden, and Cavallari in the wake of comments she made claiming she didn’t receive a penny from ex-NFL star Jay Cutler in their bitter divorce.
On Friday, thousands viewed an old podcast clip in which Cavallari tells Kelce she ‘loved him’, admitting he was her ‘TV crush’. The post described Cavallari as ‘sorta throwing herself’ at Swift’s secret boyfriend.
In the episode, Cavallari explains to Kelce: ‘I first learned who you were in 2016 when your show Catching Kelce was on E! You were 100% my TV crush when this show was on. I was in love with you. How long does it take for you to know if you’re gonna like someone or not? Because I feel like I know immediately.’
Kelce, who didn’t mention Swift but may well have been thinking about her, then answered: ‘To really dive into a relationship with somebody, I feel like it’s gonna take at least… I don’t know, it’s gonna take some time. You really got to know somebody to take that step and really like be committed and be in full throttle.
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Cavallari, 39, was joined on the girls’ night out with pals Char Riley (left) and Brooke Kronschnabel (right)
She put on a very leggy display in tiny Daisy Duke denim shorts frayed at the end along with tan nearly knee-high cowboy boots
It was not all play for the trio of women as they also worked out together as there was a photo of each of them performing a knee plank with a 45 pound plate on their back during a gym session with trainer Kevin Klug
‘I can’t just like meet somebody and just automatically think that, you know. I mean, forever is just a day away. You know, it’s just I think that’s just it’s too much, and I’m setting myself up for failure.’
It’s fair to say there’s no failure in sight now, with Kelce and Swift enjoying the first few days of marital bliss after their 1,000-guest mega-wedding in Midtown Manhattan.
As the 2023 podcast clip continues, Cavallari asks: ‘But what about that chemistry? Do you think that that spark, that initial spark, that’s either there or not? You do think that can grow?’
Kelce responds: ‘Yeah, the initial spark is always fun. You know, that’s the peak of the rollercoaster for the majority of it. But at the same time, you know, as you get to know somebody or you get to see their tendencies and what they do on daily basis, I think all of that can grow 100%.’
Cavallari catapulted herself back into the spotlight this week when she doubled down on her claims that she walked away from her divorce from former NFL quarterback Cutler without a dime.
The 39-year-old recently opened up about the bitter split, claiming she was actually forced to pay out her ex-husband when their marriage legally ended in 2022.
Travis Kelce appeared on an episode of Cavallari’s ‘Let’s Be Honest’ podcast in 2023
The episode, which has now gone viral again, saw Cavallari tell Kelce she was ‘in love’ with him
The podcast appearance occurred just days before Swift and Kelce went public in 2023
Cavallari recently doubled down on claims from her split with ex-NFL star Jay Cutler
Speaking on Tuesday’s episode of the Aspire with Emma Grede podcast, Cavallari gave a candid account about the reality of her personal finances.
‘I don’t get any money from my ex-husband,’ Cavallari stated, doubling down on comments that she had previously made last summer.
‘I had to give him half the value of [her business] Uncommon James in cash and properties and everything else. Isn’t that interesting’.
Cavallari emphasized that she completely self-funded the jewelry and lifestyle brand, noting that its eventual success ‘gave me the confidence to leave my marriage’.
Despite the massive financial hit of the settlement, the former Laguna Beach star insisted that she has no regrets about how the chips fell.
‘I was really p***ed at the time and now I’m so thankful because I think, for me, I’ve needed these things in my life to keep going’, she explained.
The 39-year-old opened up about the bitter split, claiming she didn’t get a dime in the divorce
Kelce and Swift, pictured in March this year, tied the knot at a huge MSG ceremony last week
‘And I’ve found that that is an instance where I’m going to fight harder… those little moments push me and I come out the other side stronger’.
The former Chicago Bears quarterback has fiercely disputed Cavallari’s version of events in the past.
Addressing her previous claims last August on his Take it Outside podcast, Cutler dismissed the narrative as ‘completely false’.
‘Let’s think about this logically. “Not a penny”. You can go and see how much I made in the NFL. It’s online… So, you go to divorce and each side gets a lawyer, and then you go to court and there’s a judge,’ he explained.
‘In the state of Tennessee, if we would have went to the judge and been like: “Hey, he’s going to keep every single dollar over the past seven years and you’re going to get nothing”. There’s not a judge in the state of Tennessee that would’ve signed that.
‘They would be like: “No, this isn’t right. This isn’t legal.” So, there’s that.’
Cutler was previously trouble with the law in Tennessee after he was arrested back in 2024
Cavallari and Cutler became engaged in 2011 and were married for nearly seven years before announcing their highly publicized split in April 2020.
Cutler was previously in trouble with the law in Tennessee after he was arrested and served a sentence for DUI, two years ago.
The arrest, which happened in October 2024, led to a four-day prison sentence as part of a plea deal the former Chicago Bears quarterback made with prosecutors in Tennessee.
Cutler was arrested in the suburb of Franklin, outside of Nashville – the city where he went to college and where he got married to Cavallari.
