Brittany Mahomes and Patrick Mahomes Teach a Valuable Lesson

Jenny Martinez dreaded her Tuesday evening shifts at Tony’s Diner. The buzzing fluorescent lights and the smell of burnt coffee and grease felt suffocating. After three years of dealing with grumpy customers and poor tippers, she longed for something out of the ordinary.

That evening, as she leaned against the counter, her best friend Maria refilled salt shakers. “If one more person orders the meatloaf special, I’m walking out,” Jenny joked, rolling her eyes. Maria smirked. “At least it’s not the Friday fish fry.”

At 7:45 p.m., the bell above the door jingled. Jenny glanced up, ready to greet the customer, but her smile faltered. A woman entered, dressed in a designer hoodie, expensive leggings, and oversized sunglasses. She seemed to shrink as she scanned the diner, nervously tugging at her hood.

“Jenny, looks like we’ve got a celebrity wannabe,” Tommy, the short-order cook, teased from the kitchen. The woman hesitated before sitting in Booth Seven, partially hidden by a fake plant.

Jenny whispered to Maria, “Ten bucks says she thinks she’s someone important.”

Maria snorted. “Probably just another influencer trying to go incognito.”

Jenny decided to have some fun. She walked to Booth Seven with an exaggerated smile. “Welcome to Tony’s, your majesty! Can I interest you in the royal meatloaf special?”

The woman flinched and muttered, “Just water, please.”

Jenny wasn’t done. “Still or sparkling, your highness? Or perhaps something more regal, like lemonade?” Behind her, Maria stifled a giggle, and Tommy played along, pretending to fan himself dramatically.

The woman shrank further into her hoodie, her discomfort evident. But as Jenny returned to the counter, she pulled out her phone and began recording. “When you think you’re too good for Tony’s Diner,” she captioned the video before posting it to TikTok.

The other staff joined in, playing cheesy royalty-themed music from their phones and making sarcastic remarks. The diner’s mood shifted from casual to outright mockery. Jenny felt a rush of adrenaline as her TikTok video started gaining likes and comments almost instantly.

But Maria wasn’t laughing anymore. She watched the woman in Booth Seven, her hands trembling as she poked at her untouched burger. “Jenny, this isn’t funny anymore. She looks really upset.”

“Come on, Maria. Lighten up. She’s probably just an attention-seeker,” Jenny shot back, oblivious to the woman’s growing distress.

Then, the bell above the door chimed again, and everything changed. A tall figure stepped into the diner, taking in the scene with a single sweep of his eyes. He was dressed casually in a Chiefs hoodie and athletic pants, but there was no mistaking him—Patrick Mahomes.

The diner fell silent. Jenny’s phone slipped from her hands and clattered to the floor. Behind him, Brittany Mahomes walked in, pulling back her hood and removing her sunglasses.

The realization hit Jenny like a freight train. The woman she had been mocking all evening was Brittany Mahomes.

Patrick’s calm, commanding voice broke the silence. “What’s going on here?”

Jenny stammered, “We—we didn’t realize—”

Brittany raised a hand, stopping her mid-sentence. Her voice was steady, though her expression betrayed her hurt. “You didn’t realize what? That I was someone who just wanted a quiet meal? Or that I wasn’t going to record you back for clout?”

Patrick turned to the staff. “Is this how you treat all your customers? Or just the ones you think won’t fight back?” His voice wasn’t raised, but it carried the weight of authority.

Jenny’s face flushed red as Patrick gestured to her phone on the floor. “Show me,” he said.

Trembling, Jenny picked up the phone and opened TikTok. The video she had posted—mocking Brittany and the diner’s antics—was already going viral. Patrick’s expression hardened as he watched it.

“You think this is funny?” he asked, his tone sharp. “She comes in here, minding her own business, and this is how you treat her? For likes? For attention?”

Brittany spoke again, her voice softer but filled with disappointment. “I just wanted to grab a meal while Patrick finished a call. But I guess I made the mistake of thinking people wouldn’t judge me for not looking ‘perfect.’”

Maria, now visibly upset, stepped forward. “Brittany, I’m so sorry. I tried to tell them to stop. I didn’t—”

Patrick held up a hand, silencing her. “It’s not just about one person. This is about treating people with respect, no matter who they are.”

The silence was deafening. Customers who had been laughing along earlier now stared at their plates, ashamed.

As the Mahomeses prepared to leave, Patrick turned to Tony, the diner’s manager, who had rushed out from the back. “You’ve got some work to do. Starting with teaching your staff what it means to respect your customers.”

Brittany looked at Jenny one last time. “I hope you realize that it doesn’t take a big name or a viral post to make someone deserving of kindness. Everyone deserves it.”

With that, Patrick and Brittany walked out, leaving the diner in stunned silence. Jenny stared at her phone, the likes and comments on her video suddenly meaningless.

Maria finally spoke, breaking the quiet. “You should delete that.”

Jenny nodded, her hands shaking as she deleted the video. But the lesson Patrick and Brittany had delivered would linger far longer than any TikTok post ever could.

Pregnant Brittany Mahomes Bares Her Bump as She Prepares to Welcome Baby No. 3: ‘We’re Ready for You Little One’

Brittany is already mom to kids Sterling and Bronze whom she shares with husband Patrick Mahomes

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Brittany Mahomes is ready to welcome her family’s new addition!

The Kansas City Current co-owner, 29, who is currently pregnant with her third baby with husband Patrick Mahomes, also 29, shared a series of photos on her Instagram on Wednesday, Jan. 8, wearing a pair of unbuttoned white jeans that showcased her growing bump.

Brittany opted for a white open button-down shirt, accessorizing with a white lacy bra and placed her hand on her stomach in the first shot. In other photos, she smiles and puts her hand on her back, tilting her head as she shows off her stomach.

“Hello 2025✨ we’re ready for you little one🎀,” Brittany wrote in her caption.

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Brittany shares her daughter Sterling Skye, 3, and Patrick “Bronze” Lavon III, 2, with husband Patrick.

In an interview clip posted on X by Netflix on Wednesday, Dec. 25, Patrick 29, revealed that Brittany is due “any day now.” Patrick also noted that the added stress of this NFL season has been hard on the expecting mother.

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“Brittany says I’ve been stressing her out too much this season,” the dad of two admitted. “So I got to try to not put so much stress on her through these football games.”

He added that the couple is hoping the baby’s birth lands “on a bye week” when the Chiefs aren’t playing, “and then everything will work out perfectly.”

After Christmas this year, the soon-to-be mom of three revealed what she and the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback gifted their kids for Christmas on her Instagram Stories. In one snap, their son, Bronze smiled in the front seat of a mini, matte black Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon. A second photo showed their daughter, Sterling sitting back in a mini, pink Range Rover.

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The toddlers couldn’t get enough of their new toy cars. “Happiest boy ever!!!” the proud mom wrote over Bronze’s picture. “Happy girl!!!” she added over Sterling’s snap, tagging their dad in each story slide.

At the beginning of December, Brittany shared a snapshot on her Instagram Stories from after her son Bronze’s encounter with Santa.

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While the toddler was smiling in the post-Santa snap, his mom joked that the same could not be said for his actual holiday photo shoot. “Of course he was smiley and in a great mood once he wasn’t close to Santa 😂,” wrote Brittany.

The image showed Bronze sitting up straight in a folding chair with a smile on his face, while wearing a flannel hoodie and cargo pants. Brittany later shared a follow-up photo of Bronze in the same position.

“A perfect picture of how the Santa pictures did not go…😂,” she wrote over the second pic.