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During a Friday appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Grammy Award-winning singer Kelly Clarkson gushes about 9-month-old daughter River Rose. The American Idol alum, 32, goes on to address the body shaming she’s been experiencing for “the past 13 years.”

“We’ve already started her young,” Clarkson joked about getting her baby girl started in the music industry.

The Heartbeat Song hitmaker talked about the ongoing criticism surrounding her weight.

“I love how people think that’s new,” Clarkson said about attacks on her post-baby body. “Like, welcome to the past 13 years.”

The singer went on to say the body shaming started as early as her season on American Idol in 2002.

“I was the biggest girl in the show too,” she recalled. “And I wasn’t big, but people would call me big. Because I was the biggest one on Idol, I’ve kind of always gotten that.”

The new mom says mean-spirited comments hurt her more when it’s addressed to her fans.

“I think what hurts my feelings for people is that I’ll have a meet and greet after the show and a girl who’s like bigger than me will be in the meet and greet and be like, ‘Wow, if they think you’re big I must be so fat to them,’” she shared. “And it’s like, you’re just who you are. We are who we are — whatever size. And it doesn’t mean that we’re gonna be that forever.”

Clarkson goes on to say that her weight has been up and down for years.

“Sometimes we’re more fit,” she added. “Like, especially me. I’m such a creative person that I yo-yo. So sometimes I’m more fit and I get into kickboxing hardcore. And then sometimes I don’t and I’m like … I’d rather have wine.”