Carrie Underwood Talks Divorce and Her On-Stage Alter Ego

— -- In the December issue of Cosmopolitan, cover girl Carrie Underwood opens up about everything from her onstage alter ego, to the difficulties women face in country music, to the state of her marriage.

”When I go to vote for the Country Music Awards, I have to write in names,” the host of the genre’s biggest awards show said. “I can think of, like, three who are really active. Women have to work harder to get half the recognition. I am one of the lucky ones."

Underwood admitted that being one of the lucky ones involves being a bit of a chameleon when she steps onto the platform.

"When I am onstage, I am not Carrie: I am Carrie Underwood,” she teased, playing out some of the scenarios in her biggest hits. “Obviously, I would never run off to Vegas and get drunk and marry a guy or trash some guy’s car. But everybody has had somebody who's cheated on them or some jerk they dated."

But even in the midst of a year that has seen everyone from Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert to Reba McEntire battling marriage-ending troubles, the “Smoke Break” hit-maker said fans don’t need to worry about her union to pro hockey player Mike Fisher.

"Everyone is getting divorced. They’re dropping like flies! But we are good,” she said happily. “It helped that we were both established before we were married. Neither one of us could be like, 'I didn’t know it would be like this!’”