Country Star Kellie Pickler - an "American Idol" alum and "Dancing with the Stars" champion - reveals how absolutely wonderful her marriage to songwriter Kyle Jacobs is. Things are so good that Pickler, who is also a songwriter, or Jacobs will no doubt write a song about their love at this moment - after all, it's happened before. On their wedding day in 2011 Jacobs gave Pickler a CD of songs he had written for her.
"I love my husband, but I actually really like him too," declares Pickler. "Yeah, we actually really like each other. We are doing great, can't complain in that department."
Jacobs co-wrote Garth Brooks' "More Than A Memory" and Kimberly Locke's "8th World Wonder." He's also collaborated with Trace Adkins, Jo Dee Messina, Craig Morgan, Tim McGraw, Clay Walker and Pickler, too.
As for having children, the songstress acknowledges that's not on any soon-to-do list.
"We are just happy with it being just us right now," she explains. "We are not working into that at this moment. I feel like we are newlyweds, we have so much to do and enjoy just the two of us."
Pickler, a former roller-skating carhop from the small town of Albemarle, N.C., makes it to the Top Six of "American Idol" in 2006. She signs a record deal with Sony BMG Nashville and immediately releases her first single, "Red High Heels." Her debut album, "Small Town Girl," lands at No. 1 on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart.
In 2008, while writing songs for her second album, she meets Jacobs, who wrote two songs with her on her album. "I didn't know someone like Kyle existed," she says. " He makes me feel so good about being me."
After more than two years together, Jacobs proposes to Pickler in 2010. They planned an elaborate wedding.
Then the pair surprised everyone by ditching their plans for a big celebration and secretly eloping to Antigua on New Year's Day 2011. Before saying their "I dos" on a sandbar ("It felt like we got baptized at the same time we got married," she told People of the ceremony in the water), Pickler's groom sent over a special wedding gift as she was getting ready in her seaside villa: a CD of music he had written for her. "As soon as I hit play and heard his voice, I lost it," she says. "I think we had to redo my makeup three times."
Jacob's romantic nature continued long after that wedding day.
"Kyle always leaves me little notes around the house on Post-its, and I found one this morning on the counter that said, 'Baby, I'm proud to be your husband. Love you unconditionally. Love, KJ,'"Pickler explains.
