Influencer and model Haley Kalil, known to many of her followers as Haley Baylee, has said the principal reason her marriage to former NFL lineman Matt Kalil ended in 2022 was an intimate, medical-type challenge she described as extremely rare and physically unworkable. Speaking during a live-streamed conversation with Twitch creator Marlon Garcia, Kalil said the couple’s sex life became the decisive issue despite attempts to resolve it with professional help, and she characterised the underlying factor as a one-in-ten-thousand anatomical outlier. In the broadcast, she referred to her ex-husband’s size as being in the “0.01 percent” of the population and, when pressed by the host on whether the problem persisted throughout their relationship, she replied it existed “for our whole marriage.” She added that they “tried it all: therapist, doctors,” and even looked into “lipo-type” interventions before concluding that intimacy was not realistically possible without pain. “It’s like my life is a comedy, and it writes itself,” she said on the stream while stressing she still cared about him and did not intend to embarrass him.
Kalil filed for divorce in May 2022 after nearly seven years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences. Coverage of the Twitch appearance noted that she avoided saying the description aloud initially, instead typing it on her phone for the host to read, before confirming on camera that the issue was the central factor in the breakdown of the marriage. During the same live-stream, she emphasised that the two had a broadly positive relationship in other respects and that she retains affection and respect for her ex-husband. “He’s a great guy and we’re still friends,” she said, framing the disclosure as candid context rather than a grievance.
Kalil’s remarks quickly drew wide attention because of the explicit nature of the claim and the specificity of the “0.01 percent” characterisation, which is how she framed the statistical rarity of the challenge. In follow-up comments reported after the stream, Kalil attempted to re-centre the discussion around the fuller tenor of the conversation, saying that the hour-plus chat covered “the love in our marriage, the growth we experienced, the depth of our connection,” and that she cared “deeply about respecting his privacy and the integrity of what we shared together.” Her clarifying tone underscored an effort to separate a headline-driven snippet from a broader, more nuanced account of a marriage that ultimately ended because—by her account—intimacy was physically untenable despite attempts to find compromise or clinical solutions.
External reporting on the live-stream reiterated several of the details she placed on the record. Descriptions of the conversation cite her graphic shorthand—she compared the problem, metaphorically, to “two Coke cans on top of each other, maybe even a third”—in illustrating the practical barrier the couple faced. That comparison, while intentionally colourful, was presented in context as part of her explanation for why counselling and medical consultations did not produce a sustainable path forward. She indicated the pair considered options that would ordinarily be far outside what most couples contemplate, before concluding that their situation was unresolvable in a way that would preserve both partners’ dignity and wellbeing.