Counting her blessings amid trials. Carrie Underwood has been open about her battles with fertility, injuries and more throughout her years in the spotlight. Scroll to revisit her most honest quotes about struggling and finding the silver lining.
The country singer faced harsh critiques following her starring role in December 2013’s The Sound of Music Live! but she fought back. “Plain and simple: Mean people need Jesus,” she tweeted at the time. “They will be in my prayers tonight … 1 Peter 2:1-25.” The passage she cited says to “rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.”
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Underwood opened up about the less-than-exciting portion of her American Idol journey 10 years after winning the singing competition. “Idol was probably the most horrifying thing, because I had never been away from my hometown like that before,” the Oklahoma native told Parade magazine in October 2015. “I was in L.A., of all places, by myself, putting myself out there, which is a scary thing for anybody to do. My first plane ride was when I was going out to L.A. alone.” She also noted at the time that she is “a little awkward when it comes to speaking, because I am a shy person.”
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The “Love Wins” songstress revealed in January 2018 that she “might look a bit different” after getting “between 40 and 50 stitches” in her face following a fall at her home the previous November. “Here we are 7 weeks later and, even though I’ve had the best people helping me, I’m still healing and not quite looking the same,” she wrote in a letter to her fan club members. “I honestly don’t know how things are going to end up but I do know this: I am grateful. I am grateful that it wasn’t much, much worse. And I am grateful for the people in my life that have been there every step of the way.”
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Underwood spoke out about her accident, which also left her with a broken wrist, in an April 2018 interview with SiriusXM’s The Storme Warren Show and pointed to husband Mike Fisher’s assistance in her recovery. “He’s all right [as a nurse]. I mean, I’m really terrible at letting anybody help me with anything, to be honest,” she admitted. “I’m probably not a very good patient because I’m like, ‘I can do it. I’m not completely broken. I can do this.’ I’d say the hardest part was my wrist. Like, I can’t use my appendage, and I’m trying to pick my kid up and make food and do mom stuff.”
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“It just wasn’t pretty,” the Grammy winner said of the aftermath of her accident during a May 2018 appearance on the Today show. Of her progress, she added: “I have a dedicated team of professionals who can spackle and paint and paste.”
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Underwood reflected on a trying 2017 in an interview for Redbook’s September 2018 issue. “There were some personal things that happened,” she told the magazine. “And I had the accident and all of that to get through … and just life. Life is full of ups and downs, and I might have had a few more downs than ups last year.”
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The “Before He Cheats” singer — who is the mother of son Isaiah with Fisher — revealed in September 2018 that she suffered three miscarriages in two years. “I had always been afraid to be angry. Because we are so blessed. … I’m like, ‘If we can never have any other kids, that’s OK, because [Isaiah] is amazing.’ And I have this amazing life. Like, really, what can I complain about? I can’t. I have an incredible husband, incredible friends, an incredible job, an incredible kid. Can I be mad? No,” she said on CBS Sunday Morning. However, eventually her emotions poured out: “I got mad. … I was like, ‘Why on Earth do I keep getting pregnant if I can’t have a kid? Like, what is this? Shut the door. Like, do something. Either shut the door or let me have a kid.’ And for the first time, I feel like I actually I told God how I felt.”
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Underwood felt insecure after her facial injury made it “physically impossible” to sing while recording her album Cry Pretty. “I felt like the differences were more in my head than they were in anybody else’s that would listen to the things I was doing,” she told Vulture in November 2018. “Going into the studio for the first time, it was a mind game: ‘Do I sound the same? Is my diction the same? Does my mouth move the same as it did before?’ … My m’s and b’s and p’s were kind of the issue. And [producer David Garcia] was like, ‘I thought it sounded great.’”
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The American Idol alum opened up about her joy upon learning she was pregnant with her second child. “It took us a while to get here. … I’m gonna cry again,” she told Us Weekly in November 2018. “[I’m] just so thankful … to find out Isaiah’s gonna have a baby brother. It was just great news. We’re excited.”
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Underwood wrote in her 2020 book, Find Your Path, that she read online message boards every night after American Idol to see what viewers said about her. “Some of the negative comments about me really made an impression — in particular ‘Carrie’s getting fat,’ and ‘What is up with her fingernails?’” she recalled, writing that the comments “lit a fire under” her and gave her “the best and most effective motivation.”
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The singer reflected on the long road to motherhood in a January 2021 post via Instagram while celebrating son Jacob’s birthday.
“Jacob, we longed for you. We prayed for you. We walked a long, hard road in order to one day hold you,” she wrote. “Today you are two. You are silly and strong. You love to play and sing and follow your big brother around. You are from God. Happy birthday, sweet boy!”
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