Country superstar Miranda Lambert is Marie Claire’s January cover girl. The publication’s site released an excerpt from the upcoming feature as well as images of the “Automatic” singer sporting some bathing suits to show off her 20-pound weight loss.
Fans of Lambert won’t be disappointed as the 31-year-old gets as candid as ever from topics including her new healthier approach, her famous husband Blake Shelton and keeping it real professionally:
On her 20-pound weight loss: “When you have to walk out there in front of thousands of people, it does feel good to know that your sh*t’s not jiggling. I’m just like anybody else, insecure and scared of looking bad or being criticized. But everybody’s making this big, giant thing about it. It’s way too much focus on women’s bikini photos, and I hate it. Why do we care? I want women to love themselves whatever they’ve got going on.”
On marriage: “I’m not sunshine and roses. Blake’s the happiest person on the planet. He pulls me out of my darkness … Literally, everything is the best about being married.”
On writing and singing her own songs: “Early on, an artist told me, ‘Don’t be yourself. Perform and be someone else. And I thought, ‘That seems like exactly the opposite of what I should be doing.’ Then I had people wanting me to adjust my lyrics to be more appealing to the masses or whatever. I said, ‘No, that’s bullsh*t.’ I’d rather sell four copies of something that’s real than 4 million copies of something that’s fake.”
On lightening up psychologically: “I’m always anxious. I will worry myself into oblivion. I was trying to make everything regimented, and it caused too much stress. I learned everything doesn’t have to be perfect. That sometimes it’s OK to say, ‘I don’t want to be the boss today. I have PMS. Bother someone else.’ I like things better flawed anyway.”
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Sorry about focusing too much on your bathing suit photos! Here’s the lovely cover for the upcoming issue:
