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Getting Real with Kylie Frey: The Princess of Texas Country, on Proving Them Wrong, Becoming a Mom & Writing Her Most Personal Record Yet

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Kylie says female artists are told pregnancy means, “stick a fork in me. I’m done.”

1. Get Real with Caroline Hobby talks with Kylie Frey about rodeo roots, country music, faith, and motherhood. 2. Caroline Hobby hosts the interview, and Kylie Frey is a Louisiana-born Texas country artist whose career and family life drive the conversation. 3. The episode asks how Kylie Frey went from a rodeo kid and self-doubting artist to a mother writing and living through major changes. 4. Kylie says she grew up in Opelousas, Louisiana, above Lafayette, in a big rodeo family with a father who was a saddlebronc rider. 5. She explains that she tied goats, roped calves, and served as a rodeo queen who wanted “all the rhinestones” and “all of the pink leather outfits.” 6. Kylie describes herself as extra as a child, with hot pink saddle blankets and matching outfits on her horses. 7. She says she shared a room with her sister until about age 10, and her sister once used painter’s tape to divide the room into sides. 8. Kylie frames herself as the peacekeeper in the family, saying her older sister and younger brother both seemed less invested in conflict. 9. She says she and her sister fought a lot as kids, including hair-pulling and punching, but now have a strong relationship. 10. Kylie says she has spent the last four years in therapy talking through her childhood and family patterns. 11. She says she still has a “panel” in her head made up of family members, celebrities, and people she finds inspiring. 12. Kylie and Caroline both describe imposter syndrome as a daily argument with the part of the brain that says “I’m not good enough.” 13. Kylie says therapy helped her work through perfectionism, especially the fear of starting something and not finishing it perfectly. 14. She says she found Jesus on a turkey hunt after a season of feeling hard on herself, exhausted, and unworthy in her personal life. 15. Kylie recalls a moment when Mo Pitney told her to “shake the chains of everything anyone has ever told you who you are.” 16. She says that moment changed how she saw herself when she got back to Nashville and talked with her fiancé, Joe. 17. Kylie says the female artist world can make pregnancy feel like the end of a career, and she is still working through that pressure. 18. She says motherhood changed her body, her boundaries, and her sense of urgency, including a postpartum stretch that brought anxiety and weight gain. 19. Caroline Hobby keeps the tone personal and direct, with long back-and-forth exchanges that move from humor to vulnerability. 20. Listeners who want rodeo, faith, and motherhood stories will fit this episode; listeners avoiding introspection and career angst may skip it.

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