Kelly Clarkson shades ex-husband Brandon Blackstock with co-parenting frustration

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Kelly Clarkson is getting candid on being Miss Independent.The singer, 42, recently opened up about co-parenting her two children — daughter River Rose, 10, and son Remy Alexander, 8 — with ex-husband Brandon Blackstock.

Clarkson admitted that there is a double standard when it comes to working moms verse working dads.The talk show host voiced her frustrations over school performances being scheduled mid-workweek during Kylie Kelce’s “Not Gonna Lie” podcast.The “American Idol” alum joked she looks “like [an] a–hole” when she can’t show up due to work.

However, when talent manager Blackstock, 48, can’t make it, he isn’t met with the same response.“And then [my daughter] is like, ‘Why weren’t you there?

This person’s mommy was there.’ And I’m like, ‘Congratulations to her because she made different decisions that led to her being able to be there on a Thursday at 10 a.m.,’” Clarkson said on Thursday. “She’ll be like, ‘Well you know, her mom was there?’ And then you have to say, ‘Because she got a better mom and you got me,'” she added.Kelce, 33, could relate, explaining how her three daughters — Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 4, and Bennett, 2 — whom she shares with husband Jason Kelce, 37, guilt her when she has to work.