Kylie Kelce stars in debut of Ilona Maher’s YouTube show and offers a peek into her marriage to Jason, motherhood, and more
The duo kept it real through various workouts, though the conversation frequently strayed from the gym.
A new fitness show has hit YouTube, and the first episode stars the Philly area’s own Kylie Kelce.
On Thursday, the debut episode of Power Hour with Ilona Maher dropped, and Maher, one of the stars of the 2024 U.S. Olympic rugby team, brought Kelce, her friend and fellow athlete, into the gym to lift weights, complete challenges, and talk sports.
“Here we champion three things: strength, pushing boundaries, and looking good while doing it,” Maher said in the episode’s intro.
Between jokes about what position they could play on the Eagles, the team for which Kelce’s husband, Jason Kelce, played for 13 seasons, and comparing Instagram hate comments, Maher instructed Kelce on how to do an incline bench press and throw medicine balls.
The duo kept it real, though, as the sometimes adult-themed conversation strayed from gym-related content and they laughed about dating failures and facing sexism as women in sports.
“Do you objectify [Jason]?” Maher asked.
“Of course I do,” Kelce responded, jokingly. “It’s all about equality.”
Maher, who has previously appeared on Kelce’s Not Gonna Lie podcast, is retired from professional rugby, and Kelce played field hockey at Cabrini after graduating from Lower Merion. More recently, they have advocated for women in sports and philanthropic causes.
The two appeared together earlier this summer at the sixth annual Team 62 fundraiser in Sea Isle City, where Maher was among the celebrity bartenders for the Kelces’ annual event for the Eagles Autism Foundation.
Kelce has been outspoken about her life as a mother of four and brought that experience into the weight room on Power Hour. The final challenge, dubbed “The Motherhood,” reversed the roles and put Maher to the test, challenging her to grab the kids, pick up the toys, and, at the end of it all, push a classic weighted sled, which represented the expectations society puts on mothers.
“To put this pressure on moms, have your kid and get right back in shape,” Maher said, stunned.
“That’s the dumbest part,” Kelce responded. “You just built a human being, and people are like, ‘You gonna bounce back?’”
New episodes of Power Hour with Ilona Maher drop on Thursdays.