American Idol” season 8 winner Kris Allen has been working tirelessly on his record – due out this fall – and his 8-month old marriage to high school sweetheart Katy O’Connell.
In an interview with Parade magazine, he said of his marriage:
It’s nothing normal. It’s more like the craziest boyfriend-girlfriend situation right now. It doesn’t feel too much like we’re married just because it’s a completely different married life than we’ve expected, but it’s still really good. We’ve learned that you gotta take things a little bit differently being like this. [If not for “American Idol”] it would probably be just me and my wife sitting and having a comfortable life, and that would have been fine too. But it happened to work out this way.
He’s trying to find a balance between his newfound fame and married life: “There’s definitely been people that I’ve hung out with that have been doing it for a while and understand how to balance the married life and this kind of stuff. There’s people that do it well and people that I look up to.”
When asked whether Allen ever serenaded the ladies at college, he dutifully replied, “I’ve been with my wife for seven years, so I didn’t do that. But I was known as the guitar guy.”
