Carrie Underwood co-wrote four songs on her new album, Carnival Ride including, All-American Girl, about a girl born to a man praying for a boy — a situation Carrie knows well.
Carrie, the third of three daughters, tells the Lansing State Journal that her parents just wanted a boy. They got me; it was their last hope.
Her dad tried guy things with Carrie, with some success — she's a football fan — and some failures. He tried to take me hunting when I was little, she says. It didn't work out.
Carrie isn't into shooting (or eating) animals. She's been a vegetarian since her early teens, an unusual stand for an Oklahoma farm girl. I respect them, she says of meat-eaters. That's what put me through college, after all.
Carrie was even pronounced World's Sexiest Vegetarian by PETA, and there have been similar mentions, including being named Sexiest Female Musician by Victoria's Secret and one of the 100 Most Beautiful People by People magazine.
Honors like those seem to startle the former tomboy. If I'm ever beautiful, it's because of the people who do things, she says. You wouldn't say that if you saw me now, in cargo pants and a T-shirt.