Who is Matthew Stafford’s wife? Kelly Stafford, mother of four and Rams mainstay

Who is Matthew Stafford’s wife? If you’ve found yourself asking this question, fret not, you have landed in the right spot. She’s Kelly Stafford, a former University of Georgia cheerleader who became a registered nurse, married the Los Angeles Rams quarterback in 2015, and has never been shy about defending him publicly.She’s also dealt with her own serious health scare. Kelly Stafford had a benign brain tumor removed in 2019, and she later described how Matthew Stafford supported her through recovery in an ESPN essay. PEOPLE also reported the couple share four daughters and have stayed together since their college days.Matthew Stafford met Kelly Hall at the University of Georgia in 2006. He played quarterback for the Georgia Bulldogs. She cheered for the program. They dated, split, and got back together. One version of their early relationship includes Kelly admitting she dated Stafford’s backup quarterback at one point just to “piss him off” before they worked things out.The Detroit Lions drafted Stafford No. 1 overall in 2009, and Kelly stayed with him through his early NFL years. They married in April 2015, and Kelly later reflected on their wedding videos with a simple takeaway: she felt lucky to have a husband who also shows up as a dad.They now have four daughters. PEOPLE reported the twins, Sawyer and Chandler, arrived in March 2017, followed by Hunter in August 2018 and Tyler in June 2020. Other outlets list their kids’ ages differently, but the core detail stays the same. Stafford’s home life is loud, all girls, and public enough that fans often see the family on social media and at games.Kelly also built her own platform. She launched her podcast, “The Morning After,” in September 2021. PEOPLE reported she later brought on Detroit reporter Hank Winchester as a co-host. In October 2025, PEOPLE cited reporting that she announced a break from the podcast to focus on her mental health, saying, “I just think I need to take a step back and kind of figure out what the plan is. I’m not saying this is over. I really need a second.”In 2019, Kelly Stafford underwent a 12-hour surgery after doctors found a tumor resting on her cranial nerves. She wrote in an ESPN essay that her symptoms started abruptly, saying, “I was in Michigan and had just gotten a massage. When I walked out, I just didn’t feel right. I was light-headed and it felt like the world was spinning around me.”Doctors diagnosed her with an acoustic neuroma, also called a vestibular schwannoma. Kelly wrote about the fear that came with it, especially as a mom, saying, “My biggest fear is not being here, and not being here to raise my girls,” and, “When I went home to hug my girls after the diagnosis, I knew I needed to get through this. I tried not to go down the rabbit hole when it came to what was the worst. I wanted to focus on positivity.”She also gave Matthew Stafford direct credit for how he handled it. Kelly wrote, “Matthew was incredible during the whole process. He was literally by my side at every step,” and, “I had exercises I needed to do. Some of them were seemingly simple, like shaking my head left and right, and Matthew helped me through all of it.” She also said she couldn’t see her daughters for two weeks during recovery and faced concern about hearing loss.If you want the cleanest snapshot of who Kelly Stafford is, it’s this: she talks. She documents. And when people come for her husband, she responds. After the Rams won Super Bowl LVI, she posted a message aimed at critics that did not try to sound polite. She wrote, “Can y’all just let him enjoy this?!” Then she laid out the moving goalposts she felt he faced: “It went from Matthew can’t win, to Matthew can’t win against winning teams, to Matthew can’t win big games, to Matthew can’t win playoff games, to Matthew can’t win it all … And now … the debate on the HOF?”