Kelly Rowland Craved Normal Family Like the Cosbys

Posted on Oct 10th 2011 1:30PM by Contessa Gayles

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Kelly Rowland may have been a Destiny's Child, but in a new candid interview with Cosmopolitan Magazine UK, the singer reveals new details about the tumultuous upbringing that left her longing for a home life like 'The Cosby Show.'

For Kelly, watching the Huxtables every week on the beloved TV sitcom 'The Cosby Show' offered an escape from her own harsh reality. As she told Britain's Cosmopolitan magazine recently: "Me and my mom didn't see eye to eye for a while. I would see how close my girlfriends were to their mothers and it bothered me. I haven't seen my dad for almost 20 years."

Kelly continued "It's nothing I want a pity party for. He left me and my mom, and I was angry. I wanted to be a Daddy's Girl so bad. God damn 'The Cosby Show' because that made me think, 'Why aren't my family like that?'"

"More than anything it's taught me to provide my future children with a great father, and make sure I make the right decision when it comes to men," Kelly shares, perhaps providing more insight into why she hasn't made it to the alter yet and has no plans to have kids in the foreseeable future -- unlike her childhood friend and former Destiny's Child band mate Beyonce.

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