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Travis Kelceā€™s Ex Kayla Nicole Explains How Therapy Helped Her Reaction to His Taylor Swift Romance

Kayla Nicole explained that she went to therapy for the first time after going through 'a major breakup and major life change' in a new interview.

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Kayla Nicole revealed in a new interview that she turned to therapy after her breakup with Travis Kelce last year, which has helped her deal with Travisā€™ public new relationship with Taylor Swift. ā€œIā€™m so thankful for therapy because had I not done that, I donā€™t know how I would be reacting in the moment right now. No clue,ā€ Kayla, 31, told PEOPLE on October 24. The fitness guru explained that she usually relied on working out to release her stress, but that wasnā€™t enough for her to get over her split from Travis, 34, in the summer of 2022 after they dated on and off for five years.

ā€œJust full transparency, I went through this major breakup, major life change, and I had lost a substantial amount of weight within a very short amount of time,ā€ Kayla shared. ā€œI wasnā€™t sleeping, I wasnā€™t eating. I was really abusing melatonin to sleep at night.ā€ She continued, ā€œIā€™m posting content and people are like, ā€˜You look so good. Tell us your tricks. You look amazing.ā€™ And Iā€™m like, ā€˜Iā€™m miserable. Iā€™m miserable. Iā€™m depressed.ā€™ My abs were amazing, I had a six-pack. And it was like, ā€˜I had never felt so bad in my life.ā€™ ā€

ā€œSo, I started going to therapy and quickly realized, okay, itā€™s one thing to be physically fit, but itā€™s another thing to be mentally fit,ā€ Kayla added. ā€œYou could be in the best shape of your life, but mentally, if you are not a healthy person, itā€™s not going to feel good.ā€ She also shared that sheā€™s learned to focus on ā€œthe mental health component of working outā€ from talk therapy. ā€œI think that when your mind is in a healthy place, your body will follow,ā€ she said.

Kayla told PEOPLE sheā€™s in a much better place today thanks to her therapy sessions. She also revealed the advice sheā€™d give her past self to deal with the ongoing media frenzy over the Travis-Taylor romance. ā€œBuckle the f*** up, sweetie,ā€ she said in the interview. ā€œYou thought the worst had already come, but buckle up and take all of the tools right now and put them in your bag because youā€™re going to need them,ā€ she added.

Kayla previously hinted at how she feels about her exā€™s newfound romance in her open letter to Black women that garnered attention from fans. She didnā€™t mention Travis in the letter, but she did talk about Black women being called ā€œa traitor for falling in loveā€ and the ongoing ā€œbacklash and embarrassmentā€ they receive. Since then, Kaylaā€™s made a few posts about living her best life as Travis and Taylorā€™s relationship escalates. After the football player and the ā€œCruel Summerā€ singer made cameos on Saturday Night Live on October 14, she posted a selfie video on Instagram, where she spoke about how well she was doing. ā€œI hope you guys are having a great day. Iā€™m having a fantastic day, thank you so much for asking,ā€ she said.

Kayla and Travis dated on and off from 2017 to 2022, but the Super Bowl winner confirmed he was single at the start of 2023. Over six months later, Travis and Taylor went public with their relationship after she attended several of his football games. Travis recently took the Grammy Award winner on a PDA-filled date night in Kansas City, Missouri after she went to her fourth Chiefs game.