Kelly Clarkson Reveals Her Dating Red Flags After Divorce

For Kelly Clarkson, beingness would suck without her kids.

At the precise least, she'd beryllium down a batch of content. As the vocalist exclusively shared with E! News her telephone is filled with footage of girl River Rose, 9, and lad Remington "Remy" Alexander, 7, "dancing oregon singing oregon acting oregon doing thing successful the house."

"They some are small entertainers," she said of her kids, who she shares with ex Brandon Blackstock. "They emotion pretend. They emotion marque judge and creating worlds." (For much from Kelly, ticker E! News tonight, June 22 astatine 11 p.m.)

However, that doesn't mean they're acceptable to travel successful her footsteps.

"They're excessively young," Kelly explained. "You don't truly cognize wherever they're gonna go, but I deliberation the coolest portion is having the ability...to springiness your kids the accidental you didn't person increasing up. I deliberation that's the astir unthinkable thing, conscionable amusement them everything that you deliberation mightiness beryllium adjuvant and spot wherever they go."

"I'm conscionable enjoying maine and I'm enjoying my children and I'm enjoying my work," the 41-year-old said. "I emotion what I'm doing close now. And I americium a small hesitant, due to the fact that stepparent situations aren't ever large for everyone, oregon adjacent having different idiosyncratic involved."

Calling herself a "mama bear," the speech amusement big added, "It's already confusing capable sometimes, similar your parents surviving successful antithetic places, and divorcement tin beryllium hard connected kids. So, I'm honestly not looking astatine all."

Kelly's 10th workplace album, Chemistry, drops connected June 23. Her Las Vegas residency, Chemistry: An Intimate Evening, runs from July 28 to August 19.

—Reporting by Adam Havener