Kelly Clarkson is back and, according to her fans, she’s looking better than ever. In fact, the chart topper recently showed off her extreme weight loss in a new Instagram photo after giving birth to her second child earlier this year.
The singer posted a rather impressive photo of herself jumping in the back lot of the Ellen DeGeneres show before taping her appearance. After battling with her weight for years, it seems as though Kelly is in a place that she wants to be after working hard to shed her post-baby pounds.
In fact, Kelly even opened up about her body image issues and weight struggle by telling Ellen DeGeneres on her show, “We are who we are. Whatever size, and it doesn’t meant that we’re gonna be that forever. That’s the thing. Sometimes we’re more fit. Like especially me, I’m such a creative person that I yo-yo. So sometimes I’m more fit and I get into kickboxing hardcore. And then sometimes I don’t, and I’m like … I’d rather have wine.”
As much as Kelly would like her fans to think that she doesn’t obsess about her weight like other artists in her field, there’s no doubt that the pressure to look thin got to her in one way or another. The entertainment industry is full of Hollywood types who say one thing but do another when it comes to promoting healthy and realistic body images when the majority of females look nothing like their photo shopped magazine covers. While plenty of female singers in Kelly’s position would have been long forgotten by now, Kelly has managed to prolong the life of her career mostly because of her talent.
Sure, she might have been pressured to have lost weight plenty of times by now, but she’s finally done it on her own terms, and not because of her record label. Plenty of critics have made remarks about her size. No matter how much she’s tried to shrug it off, it got to her one way or another. After all, living in the celebrity spotlight, Kelly Clarkson knows that she is going to be scrutinized either by her looks or her voice in one way or another.
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