Patrick Mahomes' Mom, Randi, Claims She's Jealous Of People With Normal Lives
While you're working 60 hours a week, raising three kids and barely able to afford Buffalo Wild Wings on Sunday to watch the Chiefs, stop and think about how hard it is to be Patrick Mahomes' mom.
During a recent appearance on "The Mom Game Podcast," Randi Mahomes, whose son is now a half-billionaire as the three-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback of the Chiefs, rambled on about how she's jealous of people living normal lives.
Between one son being a world-class athlete, her son Jackson Mahomes spending time in a courtroom and getting probation in a battery case and her job, Randi seems ready for some calm.
"As much as I say we're blessed and Patrick's living his dream, it has been the hardest seven years of my adult life," Randi, who still works as an event planner after 20 years of service, explained. "It's been really hard to juggle…being proud of him and the hate that you get and the kids get. I can't even explain how hard it's been. I've cried a lot. I struggle with it.
"Jackson's been through the ringer. The truth finally came out."
"We just want to be normal and go and have dinner. We don't do that. At my work, it's really hard because 90% of my phone calls aren't about work. I still go to work and want to live normal.
"I look at some of my friends on social media and I'm jealous that they have this normal [life]. Their kids are the same age as Patrick and Jackson, and they have this normal situation and we don't. It's super difficult."
Patrick Mahomes (15) celebrates with his mother Randi Martin during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade. / Denny Medley-USA TODAY Sports
What a bummer it must be to fly on private jets, party at the Super Bowl four out of the last five years and be the woman who gave birth to one of the greatest athletes in American sports history.
Randi, who says she's spent 99% of her kids (she's mom to jerkoff Jackson and a sweet daughter, Mia) lives as a single mom, adds that "Patrick's living out his dream and I want all of my kids to do that, but the [attention] from different directions has been super overwhelming."
How is life different for Randi Mahomes now that her son has three Super Bowl rings?
"It's a new life. The way of living is different than the way we were living eight years ago (when Patrick was at Texas Tech). He would call me for money. I kinda enjoyed it when they actually needed me for money. My boys needed me for something. They don't even need me for money to take them to dinner. They take me to dinner.
"That was hard for a long time for Patrick to have him buy my meal. I'm like, he's my son. I buy his meal. That was a weird, hard thing for me as a mom who did it all.
"But we can't go out to eat and do normal things as a family."
This is a great time to remind Randi of a quote from the great poet Dusty Rhodes, who once said:
"You don't know what hard times are, daddy. Hard times are when the textile workers around this country are out of work, they got 4 or 5 kids and can't pay their wages, can't buy their food. Hard times are when the autoworkers are out of work, and they tell 'em to go home."
Hang in there, Randi. We'll all be thinking about you as you struggle through this life.
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