Kelly Clarkson feels "mom guilt".
The ‘Heartbreak Song’ hitmaker – who has River Rose, two, and six-month-old Remington Alexander, with her husband Brandon Blackstock – worries about being able to "juggle" her family and her career.
She said: "It’s hard. You have to juggle everything. While I love music, my family comes first. There are days where s**t hits the fan, and I’m crying because there’s not enough time to do everything. But that’s any mom. It’s a hard thing to take care of children. You’re molding lives. You don’t want to suck at it.
"I’m bad at time management. I definitely feel mom guilt a lot. I think every good mom does, right? I think I have mom guilt too because my mom didn’t have help and I have help. I feel like, ‘Why can’t I do it all?’ But you can’t. That’s dumb.
"I do so much for them and I do bend over backwards. But it doesn’t matter. If you’re a mom, you want to be with your kid every day. You don’t want to miss a moment and you want her to need you and want you and not want somebody else."
And whilst the 34-year-old singer knows it can be tricky to get the perfect balance, she says it is worth the struggle "99 percent of the time".
She told People magazine: "I will definitely screw up a bunch, but I am gonna try not to. I think it’s really important, not only for my little girl [but our other children too], to see that a woman is capable of kicking ass while also being a kickass mom. And that’s a hard thing.
"I’m not going to B.S. you. That’s hard. There are days when I cry and I’m like, I don’t know if I can handle all this or get it all done or juggle. But at the end of the day, like 99 percent of the time, it’s awesome and it’s worth it."
Kelly Clarkson: I have mom guilt
