( PEOPLE.com ) -- While admitting again that she and Eddie Cibran made mistakes when they got together in 2009 , LeAnn Rimes says there were tons of lies written about them , too -- but that the couple kept quiet for the sake of his children . `` You have to really take the high road a lot of the time when you want to stand on a mountain and scream like , Why are you saying this ? '' the country singer , 29 , said Thursday in an interview on `` The Ellen DeGeneres Show . '' `` We 've always put his kids first , '' she added , referring to Cibran 's two children from his marriage to Brandi Glanville . `` We took the kids into consideration with everything that we do . Sometimes you just want to scream . But you do n't . We 've learned to let it go and laugh at it , at the end of the day . '' Rimes , who left husband Dean Sheremet for Cibran , acknowledges once again that the whole situation `` could 've been handled a lot better . But maybe we both did n't have the tools at the time to do it properly . But I 've learned a lot ... Obviously we all make choices that lead us into a different path , here and there , and you learn from those or you do n't . '' She added : `` It obviously brought us to the place where we are now . And we 're happy , and we 're married . ... I think we have both come to a really good place in our lives . And right now , I 'm really at peace . '' Rimes also addressed another familiar topic -- her weight . The singer has looked very thin in photos this year , but says she does n't have an eating disorder . The media has been `` very irresponsible calling a lot of people fat or anorexic or bulimic or whatever it may be , '' she said . `` It seems like bullying now instead of really taking these diseases seriously that a lot of people are going through . '' See the full article at PEOPLE.com . © 2011 People and Time Inc. All rights reserved .
` ` We ' ve always put his family first , '' LeAnn ##ie said . Rimes traded in Jack Sheremet for Henry Cibran . ` ` We 're happy , and we 're married , '' Rimes said .