In case you haven’t heard, Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are dating. The 46-year-old singer has been very vocal about how her relationship with the country crooner has saved her. In a recent interview with US Weekly, she continued to gush about her beau. If only we all could be so happy.
On her collaboration with Blake Shelton
“I’m our biggest fan!”On the changes in her life
“I actually feel like I’m not in my own life, because I’m not. I’m in a different life all of a sudden. I’m so blessed and I feel like I believe in my path. Now there’s all these miracles around me!”On going through a divorce and coming out the other side
“There was so much of an earthquake in my life. How did I survive that? I don’t know, but here we are and my life is full of so many blessings. I’m trying to really just be positive and grateful and look at it all like this was all supposed to happen.”On her relationship and career
“Trust me, I still can’t believe that happened and is still happening. For whatever reason, I was chosen to be in this position, and I’m so honored and more confident. And I look at it like it always works out.”
I know there’s been a debate around here on the veracity of this whole relationship, and I’m still kind of on the fence about it. We’ve all had that partner that we constantly had to defend because our friends didn’t think he/she was good enough for us. In some of my past relationships I’ve talked a good game mostly to convince myself to stay in a less-than-perfect arrangement. Something just doesn’t ring true here. I don’t mind being proven wrong. Despite my recent crap love life, I would love to see true love prevail here if it’s meant to be. If this relationship endures, I do hope they never sing about it again.
Also, Gwen’s really excited for her upcoming tour, although judging from the weak ticket sales, her fans might not share the excitement so much. On Friday, she posted a pic to her Instagram of her Frida Kahlo-inspired look from her “Misery” video with a message that her tour starts next month.
On a more serious note, Gwen seemed to have been affected by the loss of Voice alum Christina Grimmie, who was senselessly murdered after a show in Orlando, Florida on Friday night. Gwen tweeted, “I am so shaken by what happened to @TheRealGrimmie sending prayers of Peace to her family gx.” The Daily Mail showed photos of her looking slightly somber as she headed to church on Saturday for the baptism of her brother’s son. That was before the worst thing happened this terrible weekend.
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All this gushing is making her lose her cool factor, big time.
I actually muttered aloud, “She used to be cool.”
She doesn’t bother me one bit. She seems like she just wants to be happy and stay positive. I love that she takes her kids to church.
Yeah she’s always gushed about everything in her life, like totally hella rad since No Doubt hit the scene. Not sure why people like to come down on her so hard, but whatever makes you (not you, Megan) feel better about yourself, I guess. 😑
Her style is still “cool’ and definitely signature which rare for most pop stars who seems to chameleon onto trends. She has also been through a lot for a person who focused on the family life; it really blew up in her face and she seems to be staying positive and looking for the solution in her life. I feel badly that she’s jacked up her face with surgery, but that is just what aging in the public eye does to nearly every celebrity.
I love Gwen. She looks so pretty in that sundress. She’s a positive person and a spiritual person who has been through a lot. I don’t know how she still wraps her mind around Gavin cheating for three years behind her back in her own home with her longtime, trusted nanny.
I even listened to a Howard Stern interview of Gavin in 2014. She had had the baby. Obviously, we now know the affair was going on then. And I hate to admit it, but I really loved him in the interview. He’s a very humble guy, who loves music. What came through in the interview is he really loved Gwen. I know that does’t sound plausible, but many men are so flawed as far as faithfulness. He has to be the type that just compartmentalizes. But that was cruel. The guy is on tour all the time from what he said. LIke many rockers like Jon Bon Jovi, there’s the availability to cheat then and it’s kind of understood, but they don’t bring it home. Gavin rubbed Gwen’s face in it in their home with their nanny and it was for years, and all for what? He lost his family. He said in the 2014 interview they were on vacation with friends and family and he was thinking how lucky he was looking across the table at his beautiful wife and having their beautiful family. Then he got a call about a cover mag that came out saying their marriage was over. He said he was upset because those things hurt Gwen, and it was his fault because on the red carpet they asked how his marriage lasted, and he said because we never see each other, joking in his British humor. He said he hated that he hurt Gwen, because his joke caused the latest rag mags stories. He really sounded sincere. How does she reconcile that Gavin with the stranger she realizes now she lived with those last three years, capable of screwing the nanny that had been in their family for seven or eight years, and not just once or twice but for three years, a nanny I’m sure she confided in as part of their extended family and felt she was close to.
Gwen deserves all the happiness she has right now. She’s a good person.
I heard that interview too.He has been on Howard Sterns show a few times.He has always spoken very highly of Gwen.I think that is why I was so shocked when they split.I had heard rumors for years that he cheated.But Something really bad must have happened for her to have left him and I do not think it was just the nanny.
I just noticed that Gwen’s youngest son has a mini man bun( or boy bun?)
How cute is that!!
I don’t care who she dates, as long as she’s happy. But for the love of my eardrums, make good music again. Enough with the reggae, the dancehall, the mindless pop about nothing.
I do agree with that.I do not really care for her new music.Bring back the old Gwen.She has written some really great lyrics and songs that had a lot of meaning to them.I miss that about her.
This is snarky, but “I don’t feel like this is my life” made me laugh bc my next thought was “it’s your life but it’s definitely not your face “.
it’s certainly isn’t. her teenybopper valley girl schtick looks ridiculous on a late 40’s woman.
Southern California has an epidemic of men and women who are still very junior high until the end. It’s kind of the epicenter of ageism/forever young (mentally and physically). Of course I’m generalizing, but I’ve never seen anything quite like it.
I get the vibe that if this is a real relationship (big “if”), that he’s the one in to her and she’s less into him, but feels like she should be. I don’t know, a little too gushy.
I’m rooting for her. It could all be fake as hell, but she’s taking care of her business and family. My gut is feels that bc she and Gavin were together forever, that sort of stuff off doesn’t turn off instantly, and the speed of the rebound she has with Blake has been head spinning — she may totally fall apart and freak out 5 years from now. Or not. But whatever public image she’s got right now, it’s better than the one she had as the wife who’s looking away while her husband is on bad behavior.
Gwen deserves to be happy. I believe she truly is a good-hearted person, and caring-devoted mother.
Blake better not break Gwen’s heart.
I’ll say it. She’s as thirsty as Madonna and will age about as gracefully. Once a poser, always a try-hard.
I got divorced last year because my ex husband was a thoughtless prick. I contacted my first love and only love from college and he just gave me life again so thoughtful and loving but something did not jive. I fell so much more deeply in love with him to find out he was cheating. In less than a year an a half got my heart broken twice, but I felt I was not living my life it seem surreAL just like she feels. I hope she finds true love and not trying to patch up the wholes in her heart left by her last relationship because it will wake you up and see he was the same with different stripes but the pain is so deep that you ignore the red flags which are all over