Kelsea Ballerini Shares How ‘Reinvesting’ In Her ‘Real Life’ Has Been Transformative: ‘I Feel Really Proud Of Myself Emotionally’

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Kelsea Ballerini has come a long way, both personally and professionally, since her 2014 debut single “Love Me Like You Mean It” peaked at no.

1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart. After finalizing her divorce to fellow country singer Morgan Evans in November 2022, Ballerini went on to have a transformative year in all aspects of her life.

Upon releasing her February EP Rolling Up the Welcome Mat about the “turmoil” of her divorce, Ballerini tells People for the magazine’s 2023 Beautiful Issue, out Friday, that writing her new music marked “the first time [she] got back to a filterless way of making music.” The “Miss Me More” singer says she “selfishly” wrote the EP for herself. READ MORE: Kelsea Ballerini Reveals She ‘Lost So Much Hair’ Due To ‘Stress’ From Morgan Evans Divorce “I really thought I would put it out and move on.

It’s not happening that way, so I feel like I’m playing emotional catch-up in the best way,” Ballerini says of the songs, which she’s noticed have been “hitting differently” with her fans than her past music as she currently performs them on her “Heartfirst Tour”. “When I sing ‘Penthouse’, it’s a guttural moment with every woman in the room relating to some heartbreak,” she elaborates. “I obviously wrote this EP about my divorce, but heartbreak is heartbreak and breakups are breakups.