Kimberly Perry Talks 'Empowering Moment' Going Solo While Pregnant With First Baby (Exclusive)

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Kimberly Perry is having quite a moment. The pregnant singer stepped out on Thursday for the 2023 ACM Awards as she begins a new journey as a solo artist and mother-to-be. «The last couple years have been super transformative for me,» she shared with ET's Rachel Smith. «Lots of changes, all so wonderful.» The 39-year-old Band Perry alum secretly married Johnny Costello in 2021 and the couple has since moved to Nashville, Tennessee.

Perry says she has «never lived» in Music City before. Now, she's busy promoting her first solo record, «If I Die Young Pt. 2,» which offers a reinterpretation of her former band's 2010 breakthrough hit, while also gearing up to welcome her first child.

Perryannounced her pregnancy just last month. «My little baby boy is enjoying his first red carpet, his red carpet debut,» Perry gushed on Thursday, noting that the little one was busy kicking around in her belly. «When I have adrenaline and I have butterflies, he like, mimics it.» Perry is due to welcome her bundle of joy in August.

But first, she'll release her debut solo EP,, in June. She told ET that she's proud to be «standing on my own two feet as a solo artist.» «I feel like it's been a really empowering moment and for the first time, while I have loved being in a band since I was a kid with my two brothers, I'm going to think with just really a singular female voice,» she shared. «I remember some songs we would put out, I go like, 'Can you say I want to be the only girl you love all your life, because there's two boys in the band?' And it's just been really like a cool moment to just think about my perspective and… my experiences, and to get to be a vulnerable as a woman about those.»She's also eagerly awaiting the day that she can.