By Jessica Wedemeyer
12:59am PDT, Mar 20, 2023
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Happy birthday, Carrie Underwood! The country superstar — who turns 40 on March 10, 2023 — is known for putting A LOT of work into her legs. "I mean, it's my one card to play, man, so I play it," the country music superstar playfully told "Extra" in April 2022 after her toned legs made headlines following an award show appearance. In honor of her milestone birthday, we've rounded up all the times her super-strong stems have left us totally floored in recent years, starting with this leggy look…
Carrie Underwood — and her ridiculously toned legs! — made headlines during the 2022 Grammy Awards in Las Vegas. The country-pop cutie donned a super-short purple minidress with an asymmetrical hemline to perform "Ghost Story" on music's biggest night. "I love fitness," she told "Entertainment Tonight" after the show. "I do have a fitness app called Fit52, and I practice what I preach, so, I love to work out and it's nothing really complicated, things like squats and lunges and things like that, but I do like to work out. I like feeling strong."
Now keep reading for more…
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Carrie Underwood's strong stems were front and center in short shorts — which she paired with a sparkly spaghetti-strap tank, a massive statement necklace, a belt with an oversized buckle and rhinestone-encrusted cowboy boots — when she brought her "The Denim & Rhinestones Tour" to New York City's Madison Square Garden in February 2023.
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Carrie Underwood's thigh muscles bulged as she posed backstage during the 2022 iHeartCountry Festival in Austin, Texas, while rocking super-short shorts and knee-high denim boots.
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During the 2022 ACM Awards in Las Vegas, Carrie Underwood donned a sparkly Dolce & Gabbana minidress that perfectly highlighted her bulging thigh muscles.
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Carrie Underwood wore denim short shorts that were essentially briefs while headlining the 2022 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California. It wasn't her only leg-baring look of the evening…
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While headlining the 2022 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, Carrie Underwood also wore a mostly white look with sparkly pink knee-high boots that left her toned thighs on full display.
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Carrie Underwood dazzled in a purple leopard-print Dolce & Gabbana minidress that perfectly accentuated her thigh muscles during the 2022 CMT Music Awards in Nashville. But this wasn't even her most impressive leg moment of the evening…
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Carrie Underwood put her super-strong legs to good use in a jaw-dropping aerial ropes performance during the 2022 CMT Music Awards in Nashville. We especially love that her lilac jumpsuit featured just one pant leg, leaving her other stem completely exposed.
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Does anyone in the music business have more muscular thighs than Carrie Underwood?! Doubtful! Her super-strong stems impressed when she performed "If I Didn't Love You" in a bodysuit and black leather short shorts during the 2022 ACM Awards in Las Vegas.
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Carrie Underwood's legs looked insanely strong as she rocked black cutoff shorts while performing during the 2021 CMA Summer Jam concert in Nashville.
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One of Carrie Underwood's ridiculously muscular thighs was on full display when she wore an asymmetrical Yousef Aljasmi gown with a thigh-high slit during the 2020 CMA Awards in Nashville.
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Carrie Underwood was joined by two legends when she co-hosted the 2019 CMA Awards in Nashville while wearing a gold fringe Nicole + Felicia minidress. No, we're not talking about Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton… We're talking about her famously fabulous legs!
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Carrie Underwood also showed off her stems in a green The Blonds dress with a hip-high slit while co-hosting the 2019 CMA Awards in Nashville with Dolly Parton.
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Even while heavily pregnant with her second child, son Jacob Fisher, during the 2018 CMT Artists of the Year event in Nashville, Carrie Underwood looked entirely capable of kicking down a door. She showed off her super-strong stems in a sparkly long-sleeve Tadashi Shoji dress. She wore another leggy look later in the evening…
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No one was paying attention to Carrie Underwood's burgeoning baby bump when she wore this long-sleeve minidress to perform during the 2018 CMT Artists of the Year event in Nashville.
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We may have loathed the one-sleeve Nicolas Jebran gown that Carrie Underwood donned during the 2019 ACM Awards in Las Vegas, but we loved that its floor-length loincloth detail left both of her legs exposed when she posed on the red carpet!
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Carrie Underwood rocked short shorts to highlight her legs while performing during the 2019 Glastonbury Festival in England.
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Carrie Underwood looked pretty in pink in a sparkly wrap-style miniskirt that showed off her toned thighs as she performed during the 2019 CMT Music Awards in Nashville. But that wasn't her only leggy look of the evening…
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Carrie Underwood sparkled in a long-sleeve minidress that accentuated her strong-looking stems during a 2019 concert in Detroit.
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During the 2022 ACM Awards in Las Vegas, Carrie Underwood donned a darling Rami Kadi above-the-knee dress with a fringed skirt that drew extra attention to her toned legs.
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Carrie Underwood wore leather short shorts to show off her stems while performing during the 2019 CMA Music Festival in Nashville.
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The sparkly short-sleeve Maria Hoermanseder gown that Carrie Underwood donned during the 2020 ACM Awards in Nashville featured three buckles along the thigh-high slit to draw extra attention to her single exposed stem.
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Carrie Underwood had another stellar single-leg moment in an asymmetrical Jean Louis-Sabaji gown with a thigh-high slit during the 2021 CMA Awards in Nashville.
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One of Carrie Underwood's toned legs peeked out of her asymmetrical Iris Van Herpen gown during the 2021 Latin American Music Awards in Sunrise, Florida.
