Kelly Clarkson contemplated suicide

The 35-year-old musician, Kelly Clarkson, once considered taking her own life, owing to industry pressure to be thin. In a recent interview, the Love So Soft singer said the pressure to be thin for the sake of her career made her ‘miserable’, reports People.com. Kelly became an overnight sensation after winning the first season of American Idol 15 years ago. But, as her sophomore album, 2004’s Breakaway took off, she was put under immense pressure to lose weight and look as “skinny” as her peers.

“When I was really skinny, I wanted to kill myself. I was miserable, like inside and out, for four years of my life. But no one cared, because aesthetically you make sense,” she said, adding, “I thought the only way out was quitting. I, like, wrecked my knees and my feet, because all I would do is put in headphones and run. I was at the gym all the time.”

The singer said she began to change her habits and mentality during the release of her 2007 album My December. “There’s a song on My December called Sober. There’s this line, ‘picked the weeds but kept the flowers’ and I just live my life by that because you are who you surround yourself with. I was around some really negative people, and I got out of it because I had a lot of great people there, too. It was a case of turning around, facing them and walking toward the light,” she recalled.