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She wondered whether she should radically change her parenting style. At first, she says, she tried to compensate for her husband's absence by mimicking his role in the family. I thought, ugh, they can't just have straight man, that's so dull. I tried for a while to do clown and straight man, and they got really confused. So I just decided to stick to my role. It was quite a relief. She wondered, too, at how much of a disadvantage having one parent would put them.

Lots of smirks and eyebrows raised, just in the way that Martin used to do. Somehow it's in there. There were the spooky coincidences that, after the fact, they read back as signs of their cosmic compatibility. McElhone was living in an apartment block Kelly had just vacated; his telephone number was one digit different from hers, etc.

She had been single for a couple of years, had last known Kelly in his party animal phase and was surprised to hear he had knuckled down and become a doctor. For their first date, she made him sit through a performance by Mikhail Baryshnikov. I had just assumed he was wrapped up in some New York top model.

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Looking back, her husband would say, "I can't believe you didn't think we were going to spend our lives together that first night. The thing she misses most, she says, is having a co-conspirator. She watches the children romping on the lawn sometimes and "there's that feeling of, there's no one to play with any more".

Friends offered to be with her for the birth of the baby, but it struck a "false note", says McElhone, and she decided that if her husband, who had been present for the first two births, could not be there, then she would rather go it alone. In the aftermath of labour, she wanted to be quiet and think of him, rather than make small talk with someone who was very much not him. The baby, Rex, pulled them all together; McElhone's eldest son wrote a poem "about Martin's soul flying out of one window and coming through another into Rex's".

She has tried to mimic their childish ability to live in the moment. You really do just make the best of everything you have.

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I guess kids have that ability, they wait in joyful anticipation of something rather than that sense of entitlement. In a strange way, grief puts you back there, if you've lost everything. You just open up in a way that you haven't for years and years, to anything good that comes along; it's just so precious. The gratitude extends to work, which became suddenly easier; after appearing in The Truman Show and Solaris with George Clooney , chasing A-list jobs became less important than securing a reliable income.

The work serves our lifestyle and that's all it's about at the moment. Otis, her seven-year-old, occasionally lobbies for a new dad. He has described what he wants: He has some specific people in mind, at the top of the list Wayne Rooney and David Attenborough. His mother gently suggested that, lovely as he is, Attenborough might be out of her age range.

Otis relaxed his criteria. It was so tragic. He'd obviously thought to himself, oh well, maybe I was too demanding. Time is a huge factor. I don't meet anyone.

Where would you even start? I'd have to meet someone who didn't know me or anything about me, just two people meeting. And quietly say, by the way, there's quite a few people at home. The strange thing is I feel like they're the best part of me; they're the best I have to offer. I love Reba McEntire. I could listen to her all the time. Clarkson has scored number ones on the Billboard charts and sold over 25 million albums and 45 million singles worldwide, including 14 million albums and 35 million digital singles in the United States alone.

It had everything to do with the fact that she made a great record and she's got an incredible voice. She's not a girl who got lucky in a talent competition; we got lucky to find her. Her unmistakable pipes are a powerful presence in top 40 and country, with forays into anthemic rock and dance. According to Billboard , Clarkson was a "phenomenon" who "helped legitimize" the impact of talent shows.

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Her first two albums, Thankful and Breakaway , sold about 10 million copies combined, and her pop tunes became empowerment anthems across the globe. She is also the only one whose quest to follow her artistic instincts—the better to rock out and break free from the Idol cookie-cutter pop mold—prompted her to fire her management team and engage in a prolonged public battle with her record company, RCA. Jon Lisi from PopMatters cited Clarkson as one of the forces of female domination in pop music of the s.

He explained that "Clarkson's anti-sexual image appealed to those who were uncomfortable with Britney Spears ' overt exhibitionism. When Clarkson performed "Since U Been Gone" at the MTV Video Music Awards , for instance, she only showed her midriff, and it was clear that she was marketing herself to an alternative group of young females that liked pop music's conventional sound but didn't want to be confronted with sexual imagery.

You hear about her through how talented her music is, not what's going on in her personal life. She has served as ambassador for the March of Dimes since she was on American Idol , raising money regularly and assisting in volunteer service, having walked for " March for Babies ", for the cause of improvement of the health of mothers and babies. Clarkson had a ranch in Texas for unwanted animals, which included amputee goats, blind dogs, and horses that survived colic; there are more than 80 animals at the sanctuary.

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She helped provide veterinary care for them and found them an adoptive family. Anything for education I am really into and especially for kids. A lot of people don't have computers, and they can't afford them. Without education, you get far behind. As long as they have a chance, you know, I think that's important. I want every kid to have a chance. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Clarkson in at the second inauguration of Barack Obama. Pop pop rock soul pop. Reba McEntire Trisha Yearwood. American Idol season 1 and World Idol. Clarkson displaying her upper soprano range, displaying variations in vibrato as well as her noted dynamic and emotive delivery.

Clarkson displaying a softer, breathier timbre to her vocal whilst also demonstrating her harmonizing capabilities in her duet with Vince Gill. List of awards and nominations received by Kelly Clarkson. The [talent] show just gives you your 15 minutes.

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