Kelly Clarkson is a Hale & Hearty Hottie

Kelly Clarkson pays for her lunch with a $100 bill at “Hale & Hearty Soups” in Midtown Manhattan on Tuesday (March 11).

The 26-year-old American Idol champ opened up to British Cosmopolitan about her romantic life. “I’ve never been in love,” she admits. “I want to be so badly – I’m a hopeless romantic, but I haven’t been there yet.”

Kelly also calls out one of her exes, saying that he was only with her “because he wanted to be famous. Oh, and he also had [another] girlfriend the entire time we were together.”

She continues, “I love my career and being independent. I [just] find dating awkward – it’s like a question-and-answer session, but the guy has an unfair advantage because he’s probably read about me.”