On the road, Carrie Underwood gets the full star treatment, and she’s happy to admit it. “I’m a princess, and it’s great,” she told Us Weekly this April.
Then she goes home.
“And then I come home, and I’m like, covered in dirt,” she said. “I’m like, cleaning up after everybody and barefoot in the kitchen. But I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
If you only know Carrie from TV, here’s a quick refresher. She’s the “American Idol” winner from Checotah, Oklahoma. These days she lives on a farm in Tennessee with her husband, retired NHL hockey player Mike Fisher, and their sons, Isaiah and Jacob.
Her boys don’t see the princess. On The View this March, she said they see her as Mom first, and in their house “mom makes dinner.”
“I don’t bring work home with me,” she said. She also called her son Isaiah “mini me in so many ways.” Here she is on The View with Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie, the same visit where she talked about being plain old Mom once she walks in the door.
Carrie on The View with Luke Bryan and Lionel Richie
The farm is a real working place. “You know, I love our chickens. We have cows, we have sheep, we have donkeys. We have horses,” she told Fox News Digital.
A farm manager looks after the sheep and the horses when she’s away. But she says the family does as much of the work as it can on its own.
She keeps a garden too, and she takes it seriously. “I have my garden, and it’s a great way to connect with the earth. That’s my contribution to the family,” she said. She even thinks they could get by on what they raise. “I think if I had to, I could be self-sustained at home. I love growing things.”
Her boys have pitched in for years. Back in 2020 she told Today, “We have chickens and they’ll go down and help us feed the chickens and collect the eggs.”
E! News looked at why Carrie chose to raise her kids out in the country, and this clip is a good warm-up before the sweetest part of the story.
Why Carrie is raising her boys on a farm
This spring the farm family got two brand-new members, and they needed Carrie early.
In March she shared Instagram posts about two baby lambs she was feeding by bottle. Their names are Magnolia, who goes by “Maggie,” and Murray.
Bottle-feeding a lamb sounds easy enough. Turns out it takes patience. “These mornings are so precious. It took a few days for them to willingly take the bottle…I’m still working on him,” she wrote about Murray.
Maggie got the hang of it first, and Carrie celebrated like a proud parent. “Little Miss Maggie finally figured out how to work the bottle! It was a big day!”
And she summed up her new morning job in one line: “Trying to be a good mama to these babies!”
That’s the Carrie her family knows. The princess treatment stays out on the road, and at home it’s a garden out back and two little lambs waiting on their bottles.
As for her sons, she told The View what she hopes they’ll hold on to: “That’s mom, and I hope, more than anything, that’s what they take away from me.”