Wife and Daughter of Chiefs CEO Speak Out on Motherhood Amid Harrison Butker Controversy

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L: Gracie Hunt. R: Tavia Hunt. Screengrab from YouTube / @graciehunt9270

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Before comments on the post were limited, some people thanked Hunt for affirming biblical truth and traditional values. Others noted that Hunt, who married a billionaire, had the luxury of not working outside the home.

Gracie Hunt: Having a Mom at Home Was ‘Really Formative’

In a May 17 appearance on “Fox & Friends,” Clark and Tavia Hunt’s oldest child, Gracie Hunt, was asked to address the Harrison Butker controversy. The 25-year-old internet personality and former pageant contestant expressed support for the Chiefs kicker and for her own upbringing. “I really respect Harrison and his Christian faith and what he’s accomplished on and off the field,” she said of Butker. “I can only speak from my own experience, which is I’ve had the most incredible mom who had the ability to stay home and be with us as kids growing up.”

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Gracie Hunt, who is involved with her family’s business and hopes to be the NFL’s first female commissioner someday, acknowledged that stay-at-home parenting isn’t possible for everyone. “I understand that there are many women out there who can’t make that decision,” she said. “But for me and my life, I know it was really formative and in shaping me and my siblings into who we are.”

Recent Mother’s Day Insights From Tavia Hunt

Clark and Tavia Hunt also have a son, Knobel, and daughter Ava, who just graduated from high school. “This Mother’s Day carries a particularly poignant significance as we all enter into a new chapter,” Tavia Hunt wrote in a Mother’s Day Instagram post, “and I am in awe of the miracle of motherhood and that I had the divine blessing of raising three precious souls. I am full of gratitude for family and the lavish love and grace of God.”

About her three now-adult children, she added, “Getting to be their mother, know their heartbeat, and lift them up in prayer and thanksgiving to the Lord has been the privilege and honor of my life. I am so thankful for the miracle of belonging to one another.”

Tavia Hunt also thanked her own mother for “your prayers, sacrifices, servant’s heart, and for modeling the love of Jesus.”

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Stephanie Martin
Stephanie Martin, a freelance writer and editor in Denver, has spent her entire 30-year journalism career in Christian publishing. She loves the Word and words, is a binge reader and grammar nut, and is fanatic (as her family can attest) about Jeopardy! and pro football.

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