Kelly Clarkson is getting candid on being Miss Unbiased.
The singer, 42, not too long ago opened up about co-parenting her two youngsters — daughter River Rose, 10, and son Remy Alexander, 8 — with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock. Clarkson admitted that there’s a double commonplace in the case of working mothers verse working dads.
The speak present host voiced her frustrations over college performances being scheduled mid-workweek throughout Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast.
The “American Idol” alum joked she appears to be like “like [an] a–hole” when she will’t present up resulting from work. Nonetheless, when expertise supervisor Blackstock, 48, can’t make it, he isn’t met with the identical response.
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“And then [my daughter] is like, ‘Why weren’t you there? This person’s mommy was there.’ And I’m like, ‘Congratulations to her because she made different decisions that led to her being able to be there on a Thursday at 10 a.m.,’” Clarkson stated on Thursday.
“She’ll be like, ‘Well you know, her mom was there?’ And then you have to say, ‘Because she got a better mom and you got me,’” she added.
Kelce, 33, might relate, explaining how her three daughters — Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 4, and Bennett, 2 — whom she shares with husband Jason Kelce, 37, guilt her when she has to work. The couple are at the moment anticipating their fourth child.
They don’t have the identical response when their dad leaves for his ESPN job as a sports activities analyst.
Their daughters perceive the retired athlete “doesn’t want to leave” them, however assume their mother “could just say no” to alternatives.
Which led Clarkson to muse over youngsters subconsciously choosing up on gender roles.
“Isn’t it funny though how different it is? Because even from a young age, like, we didn’t teach them [that]; they just innately [believe that]. Like, he is allowed to be somewhere, but you’re not? That is really interesting.”
She quipped: “There is a lot that I keep in … because co-parenting is fun.”
“It’s like, ‘Oh, he couldn’t come because of this [thing],’ and I’m like, ‘OK, cool. Do you think I just leave and just sit in the park all day?’” she teased.
However now, the pop star needs to indicate her youngsters that “Mommy does work, and that is OK.”
“Women and men work, and it’s OK,” Clarkson reiterated. “And you’re gonna be fine. Like, I was a latchkey kid … no one was there, and I turned out all right — kind of.”
Clarkson and Blackstock break up in 2020 after practically seven years of marriage, and formally finalized their messy divorce in 2022. Clarkson was awarded main custody that March, and their youngsters moved to NYC along with her as she relocated “The Kelly Clarkson Show.”
