Kelly Clarkson got a tattoo on her middle finger to celebrate standing up for herself and often gets inked to remind herself of how she got through tough times in life.
Kelly Clarkson got a tattoo on her middle finger to celebrate standing up for herself.
The 41-year-old singer shot to fame as the inaugural winner of 'American Idol' in 2002 but admitted that it took her a few years in the industry to deal with the "shortcomings" of others and inked herself after finally putting a particularly "vicious" person in their place.
Speaking on her self-titled talk show, she said: "I get tattoos, a lot of them are when not great things happen. I like the reminder that I made it; sometimes things feel so big in your world at that moment and you feel like you're not gonna make it and then you do. So usually, that's when I get the tattoo.
"One of my favourites is on my middle finger! People can be very mean, they can be just vicious.
"If you're not successful how they want you to be and doing what you want, it's usually their shortcomings.
"Someone was so vicious and I was so tired of sitting in a room where men made me feel like s***. And then I was like 'You know what? Nope!' I finally had the guts to say - and I was in my 20s, I started when I was 19 - it took a minute but I finally said 'This is about you' and I totally said everything I wanted to say in that moment. So that's one of my favourite tattoos."
The 'Behind These Hazel Eyes' hitmaker has River, nine, and seven-year-old Remy with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock and recently explained that her children are unaware of the complications of fame and she wants to teach them "gratitude and appreciation" for what they have in life.
She told People: "They don't know the fame thing yet. They just think everybody can do that, right? Which is kind of cool, but at the same time you want to teach them the gratitude and appreciation factor. Privilege is definitely taught in my household. They're annoyed with it, probably."
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