Donna Kelce, named one of Glamour’s Women of The Year, wanted to be Clair Huxtable

Donna Kelce wanted to be Clair Huxtable for her two sons, she says in a new interview with Glamour magazine, which has named her one of its four Women of the Year.

“She was a lawyer, she was a mother of five and she was a wife and she could do it all, and I’m like, that’s who I wanna be like. So yeah, she was my mentor,” Kelce said of the 1980s sitcom mom portrayed by Phylicia Rashad on “The Cosby Show.”

“That’s what I wanted to be like. I didn’t want to be your mom that just stayed home and was with you all day long. Somebody to show you the way ... if you work hard, you have a good work ethic, you can achieve anything you want.”

Donna, mother to Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and his brother, retired NFLer Jason Kelce, appears on the new Glamour cover with three other celebrity moms: Beyonce’s mother Tina Knowles, Selena Gomez’s mom Mandy Teefey and Maggie Baird, mother of Billie Eilish.

In a group interview, the women talked about parenting superstars, how their own celebrity has changed their lives and how they deal with people who are mean to their children.

And boy do they miss those Target runs.

“Yeah, we can’t go anywhere really,” Donna Kelce said. “If we want to do something you have to rent out the restaurant or the movie theater. But I do, you know, get to sneak away every once in a while and we go to places where nobody knows where we are.”

The magazine gathered the women in July, the same day Gomez was nominated for an Emmy for “Only Murders in the Building.”

Kelce, the magazine writes, had “just flown from the set of ‘Christmas on Call,’ the Hallmark movie that marks her onscreen debut and which will be out next month.

“The mother of two of the most famous football stars in America ... is alone — no publicist, no stylist, no assistant — but she is immediately comfortable ... she has been regaling the crew with tales from her movie shoot, including the perils of filming in winter clothes during the height of the summer heat.”

The moms were chosen for Glamour’s annual list of women defining the culture because “in speech after speech and in interview after interview, the people we most admire — actors, activists, athletes, moguls, trailblazers — all seem to credit the same person for their success. Mom.

“To put it as they do: Who run the world? Moms.”

Kelce was a commercial banker working her way up the career ladder when her sons were growing up. She spoke of staying in a bad marriage so the boys could have “the most normal relationship that they could. In that one respect I did stand still for several years until I could move on, on my own,” she said.

As the moms described being protective of their daughters in the entertainment industry, Kelce said her experience as a boy mom was different. Travis and Jason were both “out the door” the minute they graduated from high school, totally independent, she said.

“And they don’t need me for anything, seriously,” she said. “There are people that are helping them in college with their grades, keeping (them) out of trouble. They’ve got the NFL that’s getting involved with everything from foundations to, you know, financial planners, to this and that, and they have so many more technical and more advanced individuals that I can ever be. I do not worry about them at all.”

The other moms laughed and told Kelce she was lucky.

“They’re 18 and out the door and they don’t come back,” she said.

“Well that’s a blessing because my experience was totally different,” Knowles said.

Knowles admitted that sometimes it’s difficult for her to ignore negative comments people make on social media about her children. Teefey said she doesn’t read comments about Selena on Instagram.

“That’s the hardest part about this whole thing, because that’s your children,” Knowles said. “We talk about protection. You want to protect them. You can’t because you can’t fight the whole internet.

“My kids are like, ‘Ma, don’t you answer those crazy people. Just ignore them.’ And I can to a certain degree, but sometimes it just gets to be too much and I have to say what I have to say and then I’m done with it.”

Kelce admitted to struggling with that issue, too.

“Oh man, that’s a tough one,” she said. “You know, it’s best just not to get involved. and not to even go there. I mean, you know it’s not true. your kids know it’s not true. It’s just best not to say anything.

“There’s only one time, I think, there was a comment about me and their father getting back together again and all I said was, ‘False.’”

Teefey said she was grateful that, unlike the three other moms, she doesn’t get recognized often in public. She’s especially thankful for that when she’s running around in sweats with no makeup and her hair in a bun.

Kelce said she tries to disguise herself, but it’s pointless now.

“I’ve tried everything,” she said. “I’ve tried sunglasses but I’m just so tall and big. It’s hard to not notice me walk by. I’m grateful that people know who I am and most of them are very, very respectful. and it’s like, ‘We love your children.’

“I mean, what mom doesn’t want to hear that? it’s just when somebody like tries to take a picture of you in the bathroom. I’m like, woa, I draw the line at the toilet, you know. Let’s stop.”