Life hasn’t exactly gone according to a traditional script for Savannah Chrisley. The 25-year-old Chrisley Knows Best star has stepped up to the plate in a major way, taking on full guardianship of her teenage brother Grayson, 17, and niece Chloe, 10, after her parents, Todd and Julie Chrisley, were slapped with massive prison sentences for tax fraud and evasion.
But amidst all the family chaos, what is the reality star actually terrified of? Plot twist: It’s not raising kids—it’s walking down the aisle!
Chatting with singer Lindsay Ell on her Unlocked podcast, Savannah got incredibly raw about love, boundaries, and why tying the knot gives her more anxiety than changing diapers.
“You Can Control Kids, But Men? No Thanks.”
When weighing the two, Savannah didn’t hold back on why marriage feels like a much bigger gamble than motherhood. Her reasoning is brutally honest and super relatable: kids are a responsibility you can manage, but handing your heart over to a man is a total wild card.
“I don’t know if this is it—and this sounds bad—but I think maybe because kids are something you can control, you know?” she confessed. “So if I have kids, it’s my responsibility to take care of them. And I make sure they get to a safe place, and everything’s covered.”
Marriage, on the other hand, involves a massive risk. “With marriage, it’s like you’re giving a piece of yourself to someone else, so they have the ability to hurt you. It’s a weird thing that I’m still trying to figure out.” She also admitted to falling into the classic dating trap: entering relationships hoping the guy will magically change for the better. Her reality check? “They don’t.” However, she agreed with Ell that the ultimate goal is finding a partner you can truly “grow with.”
Clapping Back at Southern Expectations
Growing up in the South, the societal pressure to get a ring on it and start a family is intense. Savannah revealed her grandmother is constantly pushing the traditional timeline: “Okay, you need to get married, you need to have kids…”
But the 2023 version of Savannah is setting firm boundaries and rewriting the rules. Her response to her grandma? “I’m like, ‘I don’t live in the era where people had two or three kids by my age. It’s okay if I don’t do it that way.'”
She dropped the ultimate mic-drop moment for single women everywhere, declaring: “There is no ticking clock here. I don’t need to do what everyone else wants me to do.” Major “Respect” for the Child-Free Community
Despite currently playing a maternal role for Grayson and Chloe while her parents are behind bars, Savannah kept it 100% real about the myth of being “ready” for parenthood. She noted that even friends who got pregnant before they felt prepared realized that “you’re never actually ready” and it’s just something you “learn as you go.”
Interestingly, her unique life experience has totally shifted her perspective on the child-free community.
“When I was younger, I never understood why people didn’t want kids,” she admitted. “But as an adult, I have so much respect for people who can say, ‘You know what, they love kids, but they don’t want to have kids.’ Because raising a kid takes a lot. It takes a lot of love.” She added that she loves living in an era where doing “what works for you” has finally become the new normal.