Carrie Underwood talks 'celebrity' mom expectations, adjusting to second baby
Carrie Underwood may be a mom twice over, but the country singer admits that she's still figuring things out after welcoming her second baby boy earlier this year.
The "Cry Pretty" singer, 36, welcomed Jacob in January and is also mom to 4-year-old Isaiah.
"We're still figuring out our groove, to be honest," she told E! News recently. "I don't know if we'll ever figure it out," she joked.
Like other celebrity mothers, including Chrissy Teigen, Underwood has been open about removing the pressure of bouncing back right away and getting back into shape, especially under social media scrutiny. Both Underwood and Teigen have been outspoken about how their mindset changed from first baby to second.
"People expect more of us 'celebrities,'" she told E!. "Everyone is busy showing the highlight reels of their life, but life is messy ... I'm a mom first and foremost. That's my favorite. I love my job but that's my favorite role to play."
On March 19, Underwood shared a gym selfie, but her accompanying caption was anything but glamorous. It was very real.
"I’m going to be honest, “bouncing back” after having Jacob has been much more difficult than after I had Isaiah and I’ve been pretty hard on myself lately," she wrote. "I go into the gym and I can’t run as fast or as far. I can’t lift as much weight or do as many reps as I could a year ago. I just want to feel like myself again...for my body to feel the way that I know it can."
But even with these initial comments, she added, "I make a promise to myself to start appreciating what my body CAN do and stop focusing on what it can’t. I promise to stop analyzing every angle and every curve and every pound and every meal."
The post earned the singer more than 750,000 likes and was lauded by other women.
"Your a wonderful woman and mom. You’ll be fine. Just work on getting endurance back for your job the rest will follow," one wrote, while another added, "Thank you for sharing this. I have had the same issues after having my second baby. It is great to know we are all in this journey of motherhood together."
Underwood welcomed her second child earlier this year after revealing last year that she had suffered three miscarriages while trying to grow her family.
"I'd kind of planned that 2017 was, you know, going to be the year that I work on new music and I have a baby,” she told CBS Sunday Morning. “We got pregnant early 2017, and it didn't work out ... We got pregnant again in the spring, and it didn't work out. Got pregnant again, early 2018. Didn't work out."
