My girl, 6, wants to marry an African woman Singer Pink says her kids ar e growing up without labels
POP superstar Pink says she does not want her kids defined by their gender – and that she thinks of herself as a boy.
The singer champions gender neutrality, and reveals her six-year-old daughter Willow has told her she wants marry an African woman when she grows up.
Pink, 38, said: “I was in a school and the bathroom outside the kindergarten said: ‘Gender Neutral – anybody’, and it was a drawing of many different shapes.
“I took a picture of it and I wrote: ‘Progress’. I thought that was awesome. I love that kids are having this conversation.”
The Get the Party Started singer – real name Alecia Beth Moore – does not want traditional gender roles imposed on Willow or 11- month- old son Jameson, her children with motorcycle racer Carey Hart, 42.
She told The People: “We are a very label-less household. Last week Willow told me she is going to marry an African woman. I was like: ‘Great, can you teach me how to make African food?’
“And she’s like: ‘Sure mama, and we are going to live with you while our house is getting ready.’
Laughing, she added: “I was like ‘what the f***, who are you? Who is paying for this by the way?’”
Little Willow has even come up with a nickname for the US President – who she calls Donald Duck Trumpet.
Pink said: “I don’t correct her. And I should because it’s disrespectful, but it’s like – ‘f*** it’. I feel like we are all in this permanent state of f*** it. I can’t imagine being a third-grader and this being the first example of what it means to be President.
“I throw my hands up in the air every day. It’s unbelievable. It’s not funny at all. It’s un-f***ing-believable. I want to skip ahead to the part that it’s over and we start the clean-up process.”
Pink says she sees herself as a pre-teen boy but revels in being a mum.
She said: “I’m much more mum than I am anything else. Absolutely 100%. They are my everything. It’s the two best de decisions I ever made.
“Every decision I make is a choice be because it affects my family.
“I do bake sales and lemonade stands. I take my kid to school and try to get there on time.
“I’m a f***ing grown up now, it’s so weird. I’m still a 12-year-old boy.”
The Grammy winner has gone to No1 in the UK and around the world with her latest album Beautiful Trauma – topping the charts in more countries than with her 2001 breakthrough hit Missundaztood.
She said: “I’m super grateful and I’m shocked it’s done this well because I’ve never been in this situation where it’s done this well.
“I had Missundaztood but I was so young and wasn’t paying attention, I didn’t experience it. I was just doing s***. I didn’t really know. But this time I’m not young and I am present.”
But Pink – who has sold 47million albums and 70million singles – insists the reason she has been able to survive showbusiness is that she made her mistakes before she found fame.
The star was just 15 years old when she nearly overdosed in a club after years of dabbling with ecstasy, crystal meth and acid.
She said: “I went off the rails before all of this, I got my s*** out of the way early before anyone knew who I was.
“I think that’s why I survived physically as a human.
“I can’t imagine having to go through stuff with the world looking at you.”