Kelly Clarkson’s two children are wary about the prospect of the singer dating again post-divorce
“Both my kids are not [into it and] they constantly bring it up, ‘Please, we don’t want you to be with anybody else,’” Clarkson, 42, said during a recent radio appearance on KOST 103.5. “They’re young, so it’s hard to picture their mom with someone else other than their dad.”
Clarkson shares daughter River Rose, 10, and son Remington, 8, with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock. Their divorce was settled in March 2022.
“I have expressed like, ‘Hey, I love you, but Mommy needs lovings [sic] too,’” Clarkson added earlier this month. “I’m not looking for it. I’m not looking for a ‘you’ for Christmas, but I think the hope of that is really beautiful and magical and imagination station is a wonderful thing.”
Clarkson further stressed that she is “very non-committal” but keeps finding potential dates who want to become her official boyfriend right away.
“I feel, like, I’m a magnet for people who are all-in right off the bat and want to be exclusive,” she said. “It’s not that I want to kiss a bunch of people, but I’m very non-committal at the moment … and I have little ones. My girl, too, I’ve explained to her, ‘When Mommy’s ready, it’s OK. I’m allowed to do that.’”
Clarkson and Blackstock, her former music manager, got married in 2013 and separated seven years later. Us Weekly confirmed in June 2020 that Clarkson filed for divorce, which was finalized two years later after the couple navigated lengthy disputes over custody and various assets.
Clarkson now has primary custody of River Rose and Remington, choosing to relocate their family from Los Angeles to New York City last year. The singer’s eponymous The Kelly Clarkson Show also traded coasts.
“I thought I was making a horrible decision,” she recalled to USA Today in October 2023. “I knew I needed a fresh start and couldn’t be in L.A. I really wanted to be in Montana, but you can’t really do a show from there quite yet. So I was like, ‘The only other option would probably be New York.’”
She added, “I genuinely love it, and I love that my kids love it. I was like, ‘I’m not living here unless it’s right by the park and really nice for the kids.’”
Blackstock, 47, for his part, has visitations with River Rose and Remington.
“[Kelly] has a great coparenting relationship with Brandon, but things haven’t always been easy in terms of their personal relationship,” a source told Us in April 2023. “However, they’ve come a long way and are handling things with their kids really well.”
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