{"id":1415288,"date":"2022-04-01T15:59:38","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415288"},"modified":"2022-04-01T15:59:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T19:59:42","slug":"kelly-clarkson-legally-changes-her-name-to-better-reflect-who-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kelly-clarkson-legally-changes-her-name-to-better-reflect-who-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Clarkson Legally Changes Her Name To Better \u2018Reflect Who I Am\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkelly-clarkson-legally-changes-her-name-to-better-reflect-who-i-am%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1415288&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1386991929.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cAmerican Song Contest\u201d host Kelly Clarkson has legally changed her name, a move the singer said was done to better reflect who she is post-divorce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Clarkson will still go by Kelly Clarkson for work, but privately will go by Kelly Brianne, making her middle name her last name.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>\u201cI just got divorced, so I had to drop my married last name,\u201d the 39 year old told People. \u201cI just kept my middle name for my personal life. I\u2019m still Kelly Clarkson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I can change Clarkson at this point,\u201d she added. \u201cI\u2019m 20 years in!\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In documents <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/kelly-clarkson-name-change-late-kelly-brianne\/\">obtained<\/a> by US Weekly, Clarkson said in February she had a \u201cdesire\u201d to change her name because the new name \u201cmore fully reflects who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">\n<p>The \u201cBecause of You\u201d singer became divorced from Brandon Blackstock last month, People <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/kelly-clarkson-name-change-late-kelly-brianne\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The former couple\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/kelly-clarkson-settles-divorce-from-brandon-blackstock\/\">divorce was finalized<\/a> earlier this month, with Clarkson set to give her ex a one-time payment of just over $1.3 million. Clarkson will also pay Blackstock $45,601 in monthly child support for their two children, daughter River Rose, 7, and son Remington Alexander, 5, which started Feb. 1, per court documents obtained by\u00a0<a class=\"external-link\" title=\"(opens new window)\" href=\"https:\/\/theblast.com\/190583\/kelly-clarkson-settles-divorce-vaccine-covid-19-children-brandon-blackstock\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-describedby=\"external-disclaimer\">The Blast<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Clarkson officially filed for divorce in June 2020, after almost seven years of marriage to Blackstock, citing \u201cirreconcilable differences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sources have speculated that lockdown measures helped to tear away at the pair\u2019s marriage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, it\u2019s no secret. My life has been a little bit of a dumpster,\u201d she said in\u00a0September 2020, US Weekly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebrity-news\/pictures\/kelly-clarkson-brandon-blackstocks-divorce-everything-we-know\/the-money\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cPersonally, it\u2019s been a little hard the last couple of months. I\u2019ve been talking to friends that have been through divorce. I don\u2019t know how people go through that without having some kind of outlet because it is the worst thing ever for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The same month, Clarkson went on NBC\u2019s \u201cToday\u201d show and said the divorce was \u201cso hard on everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can ask anyone who\u2019s gone through a divorce, I don\u2019t think anyone expects it,\u201d the \u201cStronger\u201d singer said. \u201cYou see yourself growing old with someone and then life has a different path. It\u2019s so hard on everyone, and you know me, I\u2019m really open. I try to be open and share. \u2026 We all go through things. But at the same time, we have four kids total with each other. That\u2019s a lot of hearts involved, and you just have to be really careful. \u2026 We\u2019re in the public eye so that\u2019s hard too, to try and be truthful but also keep your privacy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/the-kelly-clarkson-show-to-take-over-ellens-daytime-slot\">\u2018The Kelly Clarkson Show\u2019 To Take Over Ellen\u2019s Daytime\u00a0Slot<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i>Enter for the chance to hang out with Gina Carano at the premiere of her new Daily Wire movie, Terror on the Prairie! Two lucky Daily Wire members will be given the complete red carpet treatment \u2013 free airfare, hotel, premiere car service, and exclusive merch. Daily Wire members can click <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/redcarpet\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i> to enter for a chance to win. If you\u2019re not a Daily Wire member yet, click <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><i> to join us so you can win this once-in-a-lifetime experience.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAmerican Song Contest\u201d host Kelly Clarkson has legally changed her name, a move the singer said was done to better reflect who she is post-divorce.Clarkson will still go by Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}