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Carrie Underwood: Why She Sometimes Feels Like ‘A Duck’

Carrie Underwood’s life right now is pretty chaotic as she tours the U.S. and soon Europe on her massive “Cry Pretty” tour with her two sons and husband in tow….

Carrie Underwood Sometimes Feels Like A Duck
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Carrie Underwood's life right now is pretty chaotic as she tours the U.S. and soon Europe on her massive "Cry Pretty" tour with her two sons and husband in tow.

As Carrie shared with us, having a four month old baby boy on the road as well as her four-year-old son Isaiah can, at times, get crazy. "I must be a duck: like calm on the outside and paddling like crazy underneath. It's definitely a different ball game because he's (Jacob) so much younger than Isaiah was when I first took him out, here's a huge difference between four months and eleven months you know I wasn't up feeding Isaiah in the middle of the night."

She explained the dynamic: "It's like he knows when I have a really early morning or a ton of stuff to do the next day because that's the night that he's gonna be up like four or five times. But it's great where I have the kind of job where I can bring my kids with me. They are around and when I have to step away and go, 'Mommy has to go work,' there's a great support unit around me. When I'm done I come back and we do our best to make things as normal as possible and try to stick to some sort of a schedule and you know, this is our life and I'm lucky that they get to be around."

Carrie's "Cry Pretty' hits Hershey, Pennsylvania and Cincinnati, Ohio this week.

-Nancy Brooks

Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s. Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.