Peyton Manning's Wife Doesn't Want Newspapers To Talk About Her Kids

by Brad Wells on Apr 11, 2011 12:40 PM EDT in 2011 Colts News

Let's be clear on something. I love Peyton Manning. I'm one of millions of fans who are very happy he and his wife, Ashley, welcomed twins into this world back on March 31st. I also sincerely hope Ashley, the babies, and Peyton are all healthy and happy.

However, this recent statement by Ashley Manning quoted in the Indianapolis Star makes no sense:

Several Internet sites Friday reported that Indianapolis Colts quarterback Peyton Manning and his wife, Ashley, are the parents of twins Marshall Williams Manning and Mosley Thompson Manning, born March 31 in Indianapolis.

Ashley Manning would not confirm reports of the births of the baby boy and girl.

"We value our privacy and would appreciate you not putting this in the paper or online," she wrote Friday in an email message to The Indianapolis Star.

I'm all for respecting people's privacy, but when a four time NFL MVP who stars in about a gazillion commercials and is poised to sign the richest contract in league history becomes the father of twins, that info is kind of a big deal to the public. It's this thing we call 'news.' Not cheeky, celebrity gossip (aka, did Peyton party after a Kenny Chesney concert), but real news.

Maybe there's more to this story that demands a certain level of privacy. Maybe these twins were adopted, or perhaps there was a surrogate mother. That might explain why seemingly no one knew the Mannings were expecting. Maybe the stork brought them, or perhaps the very same alien technology that created Peyton's large, bulging cranium discovered a way from him clone himself. Who knows? More importantly, who cares?

Doesn't matter how they got kids. The fact is they have them, and it's GREAT! Ashley Manning refusing to confirm a story Peyton's own mother has confirmed (she also told her hometown newspaper) is odd and borderline silly. Respecting privacy is one thing. However, the very same public that allows Peyton the opportunity to earn tens of millions of dollars a year playing a game for a living has the right to know when he became a father for the first time. It's as simple as that.

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Yeah its incredibly stupid on her part I mean its one thing to not let us know they were pregnant I had no issue with that but when the cat is out of the bag so to speak and you want them to ignore it as if it never happened its laughable.

Just say yes its true and please respect our privacy that’s all that needs to be said and it would’ve been enough.

by CF4L on Apr 11, 2011 12:47 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Ashley: Every Right to Be Wary...

Mrs. Manning has every right to be preemptive about her family’s privacy. And, in any case, articles like this are really kind of disrespectful and tasteless — inciting heavy, unfounded speculation, gossip and rumor the way they do.

by bava84 on Apr 12, 2011 3:43 AM EDT up reply actions

All she had to do was either say “Yes its true please respect our privacy” or “No its not true” this would’ve all been avoided instead you have loved ones saying its true and when they ask the source themselves she demands they not talk about it even though everyone else is? You’re making it seem like they’re liars.

Seems rather paranoid over nothing. Besides this is Indianapolis not Los Angeles or NYC there won’t be anyone taking pics of the kid etc. We tend to leave celebs alone around here. She married a famous person and now has kids with him what exactly did she expect to happen?

by CF4L on Apr 12, 2011 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions

Is it really that big of deal?

Is it worth bad mouthing her and questioning their family just because they don’t want the inevitable shit storm of media outlets on them 24/7?

You act as if we’re entitled to be involved in their family just because we pay to watch him play football. That couldn’t be farther from the truth. So what if she doesn’t want to come out and say it… that’s her/their choice.

Peyton Manning = GFQTWHESINTHOEF

by coltsjunkie44 on Apr 11, 2011 1:08 PM EDT reply actions 11 recs

NO

I’m sure this will be the unpopular response to this pathetic, whiny, and childish post, but…

NO…we, the public, have a right to know when he gets injured or suspended or anything to do with his PUBLIC football career.

The public does NOT have the right to know anything and everything about his personal life until and unless he offers it. Just because he is a more high profile person than your average citizen, there was no contract or paperwork that he signed giving up his rights to privacy.

Get over it. She doesn’t want people hovering over her while she and Peyton attempt to raise their children in a modicum of normalcy. Peyton himself has often talked about the great care in which his own parents took in making his, Cooper, and Eli’s childhoods normal. When exactly did the rules change making that impossible and unattainable for Peyton’s own children.

by bamagrad01 on Apr 11, 2011 1:16 PM EDT reply actions 12 recs

I'm alright with their stance

Keep it private. I only care about the football part and anything extra is fun, but not necessary. I think you’re trying to hard to picture yourself as one of Peyton’s buddies and that’s never going to happen for any of us. I totally respect their decision to separate their private lives from their professional ones and actually think it’s pretty cool. Maybe it’s part of why he is so great, just like raping people seems to make Big Ben only stronger…

"It's about the journey--mine and yours--and the lives we can touch, the legacy we can leave, and the world we can change for the better."
— Tony Dungy

by Mark Olson on Apr 11, 2011 2:41 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs

The last line

Is hilarious! Lol

by fc3worships on Apr 12, 2011 12:11 PM EDT up reply actions

Not unusual

Many celebrities try to shield their children from the spotlight. Whatever. That’s their business. They can be thankful they’re in a small market, like Indy, and not in NY or LA, where paparazzi would stake out their house for a picture of them with their kids.

BeerBrunch.com @coldy4goldy

by beerbrunch on Apr 11, 2011 2:54 PM EDT reply actions 5 recs

privacy vs. celebrity

Alright BBS has another target. nice lets get rid of Peyton! how dare they want to keep the details of their child birth private! The Lindberghs were like that!

sean smither

by izzystradlin67 on Apr 11, 2011 4:27 PM EDT reply actions 7 recs

Since when can one not have family related privacy? What does this have to do with football? Sounds like some one feels left out cause Payton won’t tell all things to him??

by Charles Bennett on Apr 11, 2011 4:44 PM EDT reply actions 6 recs

not to nick pick but it’s spelled Peyton

STAMPEDE BLUE.....the "ANTI-COLTS BLOG"

by Ufanforreal on Apr 11, 2011 4:52 PM EDT up reply actions

Your stamp or whatever i

Is funny lol

by fc3worships on Apr 12, 2011 12:12 PM EDT up reply actions

WHO CARES?

Well apparently you do!! And the bulging cranium crap is uncalled for!! Maybe you could help get Peytons Mom and Ashley into a family feud?? Now that would be NEWS for ya !!

by Charles Bennett on Apr 11, 2011 4:53 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

what the……..?

STAMPEDE BLUE.....the "ANTI-COLTS BLOG"

by Ufanforreal on Apr 11, 2011 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions

i actually got lulz from the cranium joke

however the rest of the article is very nosy

i don't give autographs

by muncie_in_this on Apr 13, 2011 9:26 AM EDT up reply actions

not confirming that they now have kids

Seems a little silly. Yes they are entitled to their private life, but to let’s be honest, how many people wouldn’t tell their coworkers etc that they were having a baby? People put adds in the paper to announce a birth. New parents usually can’t resist bragging.. the fact that anyone has a baby is usually not something anyone tries to ‘keep quiet’

Not wanting to be staked out for photos is one thing. Not even admitting to having them seems a bit stupid and is just going to provoke the media into trying to confirm whether this is true or not.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing...

by bluegirl on Apr 11, 2011 5:32 PM EDT reply actions

postpartum depression

I didn’t read through all the comments so if someone said this then I apologize.

Look, Ashly saying this isn’t newsworthy. If she did in fact have the babies, every parent knows that there is a degree of postpartum depression that will affect what a women does or says. She’s very protective of her babies and felt she needed to say something to protect them from the public eye. I wouldn’t read to much into this as this type of thing doesn’t surprise me at all being a parent myself.

by bluecoltsfan on Apr 11, 2011 6:16 PM EDT reply actions

With the 1st overall pick of the 2032 NFL draft

The Indianapolis Colts select Marshall Manning, Quaterback, University of Tennesse

Hank Baskett IS A WANKER

by ColtsUK on Apr 11, 2011 6:40 PM EDT reply actions

If I was Peyton then I'd want my personal life to stay private too.

by RamblinWreck7 on Apr 11, 2011 8:07 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs

Rec'd.

The commenters that is.

Drugs are bad.

by An Actual Fan of the Colts on Apr 11, 2011 9:10 PM EDT reply actions

The speculation

will just get more intense the longer Peyton and Ashley wait to say something about the kids, right or wrong. There are plenty of celebrities who lead relatively private lives who confirm the birth of a child, and that’s the end of it.

by Brandino on Apr 11, 2011 9:14 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs