14 DAY TRIAL // In April this year, Carrie Underwood said in an interview that, if she were ever to choose between her family and her career, she wouldn’t waste a second to think before choosing the former. However, she doesn’t plan on having kids right now.
The singer is the cover girl of the latest issue of Marie Claire magazine and, in the accompanying interview, she reveals she wants to wait another while before giving motherhood a try.
It’s not that she doesn’t want kids, it’s that she doesn’t think she’d be able to handle the responsibility right now, she says.
“I don’t feel old enough to have kids. I know I am mature. But being responsible for another human?” Carrie says when asked about the possibility of having a child soon.
For the time being, she has her plate full, focusing on her career and being her idea of perfect wife to her husband.
This is what she wanted ever since she was in high school.
“You were supposed to say what you would be doing in 10 years, and I said, ‘I will be rich, famous, and married to a hot guy.’ I guess I should have added a few more things,” she says.
Carrie also talks about how, despite the princess-like exterior, she doesn’t like mushy things and physical contact.
Jokingly, she swears she’s not a sociopath and explains that she’s probably more closed in with strangers because she was the youngest child in the family and has “the only-child syndrome.”
“At the beginning of my career, I used to have panic attacks. People were touching me, screaming – it made me really nervous. In public, I just get nervous. It’s a physical reaction, feeling like the walls are closing in,” she also says.
“The fans are great. It’s not their fault. I don’t ever want to come across as ungrateful. But on my end, it is hard for me to process. Because I am still just me,” Carrie adds.
More from the interview is available here.