Pink Says She Was Told Having Kids Would Ruin Her Career

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, but luckily for her, she was in a position to prove those critics wrong.In an interview with , the singer said that at the beginning of her career, everyone was saying the same thing: Don't have kids. “Everyone told me, 'If you have children right now, your career's over,'” she remembered.

However, that having kids brought out another side of her and a new energy to her music that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. "Obviously, we're all much more complex than any of that, but when I had a child, I think it softened me to the world, the part that didn't understand me," she said. “And I think that's when my career began, really.

I mean, I did a lot of stuff before that, but really, truly, I think it's when I started to really understand myself and understand the world and my place in it.” was born in 2011, according to . “We are ecstatic to welcome our new beautiful healthy happy baby girl, Willow Sage Hart,” she wrote on Twitter at the time.

A few years later, Pink welcomed her second child, a boy named Jameson who is now 6. On the , the singer said of her kids, “I think I made the best ones that ever happened.”As she told Zane, “Sitting with a guitar is one of my favorite things I'll ever do, but cuddling with my babies and taking them camping and being dirty for three days is also one of the coolest things I'll ever do.”By Abby GardnerBy Carrie WittmerBy Emily TannenbaumBy Hannah CoatesMore from GlamourSee More Stories© 2023 Condé Nast.