19-03-2025
Travis Kelce Says He Was a Kid 'Heavyweight': 'I Was Dealing with My Love for Honey Buns'
Travis Kelce is getting candid about his childhood weakness.
On the latest episode of New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, released Wednesday, March 19, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end, 35, and his brother Jason spoke to actor Ben Stiller about his 1995 movie Heavyweights.
The film tells the story of overweight children being lured into a fitness camp that is being run by a 'psycho ex-fitness instructor," per the movie description.
'I was a heavyweight growing up," Travis told Stiller, adding, "Jason, he didn't get fat until he went to office. We switched places growing up. So Jason is more newly founded into it.'
"So seriously, you were dealing with weight issues?' Stiller asked the brothers, to which Jason, 37, replied of his brother, 'He was chubby, I wouldn't say he was fat.'
Travis then admitted what may be behind his childhood weight gain. 'I think I was dealing with my love for honey buns," the NFL star laughed.
'That's what I was kinda dealing with more,' he continued, admitting he'd have loved to attend a camp like the one in the movie.
"I saw Heavyweights and was like, 'Oh, man. If there's a camp out there like that, I wanna go to it.' "
'Just kids that can be fat together and hide candy in their beds," Travis quipped.
He then hinted that the movie's plot mirrored his own experience of being the younger brother, adding, "Kids that never really lived up to the excellence of their brother and just the expectations that their parents set for themselves."
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Stiller, 59, went on to say that he didn't think the movie would be made today as his camp counselor character was "so mean to these kids who are dealing with weight issues.'
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'I just don't think that's getting off the drawing board these days,' Stiller said.
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However, Jason disagreed, insisting that the movie was still inspirational.
'I understand, but I feel like the movie also inspired more people that were overweight,' the retired Philadelphia Eagles center concluded of Stiller's character, conceding that he was "not the nicest."
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