Jill Biden’s first solo TV chat and here’s what she talked about!

It was Jill Biden’s first solo TV interview since the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

And if the host-guest pair sounded unusual, it wasn’t! The women are connected by a desire to forge connections with audiences to propagate their messages and Biden’s desire to connect with that audience to convey messages of hope and unity found a platform in The Kelly Clarkson Show.

You know it got candid when Biden even talked about her first marriage and divorce, trying to instill hope in Clarkson over ongoing divorce woes.  As it turns out, Biden, 69, and Clarkson, 38, seemed to get along judging from clips of the show released Wednesday. Clarkson made clear she approves of Biden’s post-pandemic wishlist of getting some martini and french fries?  (Don’t we all though?)

When Biden was asked what fun thing she planned to do first once the pandemic eased, she laughed. “A fun thing? Maybe go have a martini and some french fries.” “Yeah!” exclaimed Clarkson. “I knew I loved you! I love that idea!”

The one-on-one “conversation” (“I don’t like the word ‘interview,'” Clarkson said) took place in the East Room earlier this week under socially distanced conditions: The two were maskless but seated far apart.  This episode will be on air on Thursday.

Apart from all the fun, there was a serious purpose to Biden’s appearance on the show: She’s reintroducing herself (she was the second lady for eight years during the Obama administration) to a country divided more than ever by politics, race, and a national emergency. She’s trying to reach larger audiences to spread the message of the Biden administration.  She’s been using every tool she has, from her FLOTUS megaphone to her dogs, Champ and Major,  to connect.

Biden talked to Clarkson about her FLOTUS agenda advocating for education (her paid job is teaching English literature at a community college in Northern Virginia), military families and cancer research.

She even took questions from a virtual audience of past show guests, commented on Clarkson’s choice of song for her opening “Kellyoke” segment (her version of karaoke), and offered her tip for what women should do first every day (exercise).

She even counseled Clarkson on the possible upside of a divorce. Biden was married while in college and divorced before she married then-U.S. Senator Joe Biden, a widower, in 1977. She talked to Clarkson, who filed for divorce from husband Brandon Blackstock last summer,  as if she were her mother, quoting her own mother’s advice about how things always look better tomorrow.

“If you can take one day at a time, things will get better,” Biden said. “I look back on it now, and I think if I hadn’t got divorced I never would have met Joe and I wouldn’t have the beautiful family I have now. So I really think things happen for the best. “Kelly, over time you heal and you’re going to be surprised and I can’t wait until that day comes for you,” she said.

Apart from divorce, she also had a heartfelt moment in the show talking about coping with grief after son Beau Biden died of cancer in 2015, about balancing work and motherhood, and about the presidential couple’s nightly date.

We cant wait to catch up with this chat!