Kristin Cavallari Cries After Watching 12-Year-Old Son Camden 'Get Hit' in His First Football Game: 'He Went Flying'

Cavallari is a mom to sons Camden, 12, Jaxon, 10, and daughter Saylor, 8, whom she shares with ex Jay Cutler

Kristin Cavallari is sharing a relatable mom moment following her son's first football game.

On the Sept. 17 episode of her Let's Be Honest podcast, the mom of three, 37, cried as she opened up about how hard it's been for her to watch her and ex-husband Jay Cutler's 12-year-old son Camden play as a football quarterback for the first time.

“It’s been so emotional,” she shared before admitting, “I actually cried the night before Camden’s first game.”

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Cavallari, who's also a mom to Jaxon, 10, and daughter Saylor, 8, with the Chicago Bears quarterback, noted that Camden's team was up against seventh and eighth graders who are "6-foot-4 and up."

Upon discussing her son's game, where he "took some really bad hits," the actress began to cry.

"He took some really bad hits — this is not my intention, by the way, to cry,” she said. “He got hit, and he went flying and he fell really hard. I just knew, as a mom, how scared he was after that first hit. And that’s what f---ed me up more.”

Surprised by her tearful reaction, she added, “Oh my god, I really thought I’d worked through all this.”

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“Thinking of him being scared out there just wrecks me. It just wrecks me," she continued. "More so than the physical aspect, obviously, physically I don’t want him to get hurt, and then he got hit a couple other times. And that was honestly one of the hardest things I’ve had to sit through. It’s so hard seeing your baby get hit.”

Cavallari then got candid about the hardest part of parenting, sharing, “Your kids are literally little pieces of your heart, quite literally, out there in the world getting s--- thrown at them, getting physically hit, all these things. And all we want to do as moms is protect our babies."

She continued, “The flip side of it is when he’s playing really well and he gets a touchdown and everything, it’s just the best feeling in the world and you’re so happy for him.”

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