The Voice host said, though, that she held her own against industry people who tried to get her to lose weight.

“I fought more when I was thinner than I do now, because now I just walk in and I just look at them like, ‘I dare you to say something. I'm happy in my life. I'll work on me in my time!’ ” she said.

Clarkson said that her biggest career moments have come at her heaviest, after she had her two kids, River, 6, and Remington, 4.

“Honestly, at my heaviest point, I was hired to be on The Voice. I got on the number one television show at my heaviest point, because it was right after I had kids and it was like they didn't care,” she said. “Paul hired me from NBC because he loved my personality, he loved that I connect with people and I'm really raw and real. It had nothing to do with my sex appeal or my look aesthetically. It had to do with me as a person. I think it's really up to artists to force people to have that mentality.”

Clarkson said that weight should not have any bearing on a singer’s abilities, and spoke specifically about the recent focus on Adele’s weight loss.

“I met Adele a long time ago and that girl is like a goddess. I don't care what kind of weight she's holding down; you walk in the room and she's like a force, just physically captivating,” Clarkson said. “If someone wanted to do it [lose weight] for themselves and for their health but that doesn't change how many times I listened to her record.”

Clarkson previously told PEOPLE that her positive body image has kept her from being too bothered by her body shamers.

“Even on American Idol I was really thin, but I was bigger than the other girls on the show, so people would say things to me,” she told PEOPLE in 2017. “But luckily I am superconfident, so I’ve never had a problem with shutting people down and saying, ‘Yeah, you know, that’s just what I’m rocking. It’s fine.’ ”

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