I legitimately believe that Gwen Stefani’s phase-out of her beloved signature red lipstick has drastically changed her look. Like, I always feel startled whenever I see her now with a nude or pale pink lip. That being said, chica has also been getting some face work done and that’s another reason why she looks so different. I can’t figure out what it is exactly? Something with her lips. Something with her cheeks. Her eyes look the same, so I don’t think she’s had eye work. But everything in the mouth-nose-cheeks area looks strange to me.
These photos are from the Academy of Country Music Awards on Sunday. Gwen and Blake Shelton didn’t walk the carpet, but they sat together and posed together inside the event. Reportedly, Gwen fits in well with Blake’s country music peeps, just as she and her sons have already been embraced in Blake’s hometown in Oklahoma. Gwen takes her sons to Oklahoma regularly, and the boys reportedly adore Blake. Obviously, Gwen is thinking about marriage. You don’t spend that much time in Oklahoma and allow your sons to get so attached to your boyfriend without thinking that he’ll eventually marry you. But Blake is taking it slow.
Could there be wedding bells in the future for Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani? The country music singer, 41, admitted to CMT’s Cody Alan that he has marriage on his mind.
“I think about it. I don’t think it’s anytime soon or anything,” Shelton said when asked about tying the knot. “The more time that goes by, I guess, the closer you’d be getting to that.”
Stefani, 48, revealed she also had wedding bells on her mind during an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show last week. The “Hollaback Girl” singer opened up about the depth of her feelings for Shelton to Ellen DeGeneres, who wasted no time in asking about Stefani’s boyfriend.
“He got sexier,” Stefani joked about Shelton’s reign as Sexiest Man Alive. “It just keeps getting better and cuter and more country.”
DeGeneres asked if rumors that the two were planning on getting married soon were true, a question which the singer skirted around by asking DeGeneres for advice.
“I love being married,” the host said. “I think you should get married.”
Stefani admitted to loving weddings and said her three sons — Kingston, 11, Zuma Nesta Rock, 9, and Apollo Bowie Flynn, 4, with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale — “love” Shelton. DeGeneres dropped the topic but told her to keep it in mind. “I do,” she replied. “I think about it all the time.”
First of all, Gwen really, really, REALLY wants to marry Blake. That’s how she sees herself: as someone’s wife, settled down with someone nice, someone who will stick around forever. She loves being married and she dreams of “happily ever after.” Second of all, this is not what she wanted to hear: “I think about it. I don’t think it’s anytime soon or anything. The more time that goes by, I guess, the closer you’d be getting to that.” Meaning, Blake *might* marry her if she sticks around for another five years, MAYBE. He wants to give her enough hope so that she’ll stick around, but clearly, he’s in no rush to remarry. If there weren’t kids involved, I would say that Blake has every right to feel that way… but come on, dude. By all accounts, he behaves like a loving stepfather to her sons, and I don’t blame Gwen at all for wanting to make this official, even if it’s just so her boys know that they have a connection to Blake.
Photos courtesy of Getty.
Not sure about facial work. Just think she is wearing less makeup and using it differently?
My daughter said she looks like some work was done. IDK. LOL.
To me she looks like she did not get some work done, rather she got extensive work done. No way a lip color transforms your whole face into someone else. She looks now in motion as if she has difficulty talking with those cheeks. Just youtube a recent video of her.
Completely. Fillers in cheeks, under-eyes, and lips…(maybe) microblading on her brows..
If you do a Google search, she looks REALLY different than she did even 5 or 6 years ago.
I think next visit to plastic surgeon will make her look like Gwen was replaced with some doll
She is barely recognizable on many pictures. These here are better ones, go have a look at the ones that we have seen in the last weeks – a totally different woman. No amount of makeup explains this. To me it looks like she at least did something to her chin (god knows why) , and problably some more.
My guess is cheek fillers, slight nose job, lip fillers, and a chin implant.
Her forehead/hair line looks waaaaay different to me. Face lift?
I want them to be the country Kurt and Goldie.
She has a type.
Tony broke up with her after 8 years because he didn’t want a commitment, and then Gavin strung her along with an off/on relationship for 7 years before finally agreeing to marriage.
She wants the unattainable—someone who doesn’t want to settle down and she thinks she can change their mind. Definitely a type.
Is there a possibility that she was the one to break it off and not necessarily the guys? Just curious. Women can get bored of partners too, you know?
I guess you aren’t familiar with the Tragic Kingdom album LOL Tony broke up with Gwen. Gwen ended her marriage with Gavin after 20 years of dealing with his lying and cheating. I don’t think Blake will be much different TBH. He has already been married twice and has been rumored to be a cheater as well. I think he’s smart to hold off. Unfortunately I think she goes for the first guy who is interested in her and then sticks to him like glue. I don’t think she has any idea who she wants or who she is because she’s never been single.
@Masamf- nope. She is not that settle as a song-writer & she only writes what she knows- break ups & waiting for the guy. Listen to every album she has with No Doubt. It’s about her & her relationships. And No Doubtful is right. She went right from Tony (I do believe they tried again ) to Gavin. And right from Gavin to Blake. She is like JLo. Never single.
I mean, I’m no fan of Gwen’s and I certainly don’t know much about her since I’m not a fan. But I know that things are not always as black and white as we want to believe. I’m not familiar with Gwen relationships but I would like to think that Gavin was attracted to her (in whatever timeframe after her last relationship) as well. The way she’s being portrayed here is like once she got “dumped by Tony” she went begging Gavin to take her on and once he agreed to give it a go, she immediately latched onto him like a monkey on his back and refused let go. I’m just saying that if they stayed together long enough to have 3 kids, my guess is that Gavin too wanted to stay in the relationship. And if he cheated on Gwen (constantly as you say) this is all on him and speaks more to Gavin character as a person that to Gwen’s. And if after so long, she got enough courage to leave him because of his lying and cheating ways, then I say good for her, I’m not gonna diss her for leaving an emotionally abusive relationship. And who knows, maybe this relationship with Blake is what will work out for her (shrugs). I know that when my husband passed away, I never felt any desire to be married to anyone else. I dated and lived with my ex for 15 years, but I never wanted to marry him in any way, the arrangement of him moving in with me and my kids was good and comfortable enough. It could be the same with Gwen, that this arrangement of Blake moving in with her is comfy enough for now and they both have no desire to tie no more knots!! Just sayin’
These relationships all played out extremely publicly, and she wrote and talked about them extensively.
Tony ended things because he felt suffocated. Their break-up lasted like a year because she just clung on and he didn’t want to hurt her too badly.
Then she moved straight onto Gavin, who cheated on her constantly and dumped her for other women literally more than a dozen times. She waited him out, his career nose-dived and the groupies dispersed, and only then did he finally commit to her. And we know how that turned out. She eventually dumped him, after many public humiliations, but not before lining up Blake, who’s saying he’s not thinking about marriage a week after she gushed about it being her dream.
That’s all 3 of her relationships. She has a type.
Well, well, well! I think Blake might’ve given a different answer a year ago. The buzz has worn off quite a bit for him. Didn’t see that one coming.
How so? He’s never talked about marriage. So how would the answer have been different? He has moved in with her, so I would say more serious than a year ago. He tweeted last week how much he loved her.
He was madly in love with Miranda, but had come out of a divorce. He did not get engaged until four years into the relationship. He talked then about how he wasn’t going to rush into marriage. They lived together. She had already bought property out in Oklahoma. They were serious, just not married until five years in.
I still think they are working on annulments – she is papped coming out of church all the time. In an IG story you could see a statue of the Virgin Mary. She talks about her parents being role models for marriage. My hunch is they will get married if they are able to get annulments. Just a guess.
Can you do that after 20 years and three kids?
I don’t know of she’s had work done (she looks more or less the same to me), but it is amazing how drastically the nude lip changes her face. She just kind of disappears and looks so bland.
She should stick with the red lip-it looks good on her and it’s part of her signature look. I mean, possibly she’s tired of it and wants something new, but I can’t shake the feeling that going beige is part of the let’s get married campaign, to prove that she can fit in with his whole scene.
I don’t trust him. I havent forgotten he had a first wife and that ended because he was cheating on her with Miranda. He’s always been kinda shady. I suspect in a few years he’ll actually settle down with a late 20-something early 30-something, blonde Nashville girl and she’ll pop out a few kids for him.
Gwen is the rebound. Which is too bad, she deserves better.
It was Miranda who was cheating all over and everyone in country music knew it except for Blake. He was totally blindsided. Blake and Gwen have one thing in common: they were both previously married to cold-hearted snakes.
I thought it was Blake who was the constant cheater . . .
He probably cheated on his first wife with Miranda then Miranda cheated on him. From the time he found out about it to the divorce being final was a whooping two weeks. I’ve never heard constant or serial cheater about him from any reliable source.
Point taken on “reliable source”! And same for Miranda, never heard a RELIABLE source on either one of them being serial cheaters.
Well, the accusation of cheating then the instant divorce/expulsion from the OK ranch does lend credence to Miranda getting caught cheating on Blake.
I do agree that Gwen is the rebound. Sometimes he rebound turns into something permanent, but not often.
I do think the kid thing is an issue. He strikes me as the kind of guy who does want a couple of kids of his own, and Gwen is sorta over that (both age-wise, and having already 3 kids-wise).
But who knows. End of the day, I’m enjoying the show.
I’m going on two years with my rebound. I agree that it isn’t typical, but it happens.
If a relationship becomes too hard for too long, eventually you just get worn down and you check-out emotionally even if you’re still trying to keep the relationship together. It can happen subconsciously and very slowly until you suddenly realize that you actually gave up months ago.
That being said, I think if the relationship ends abruptly or unexpectedly, it can be MUCH harder to move on with a rebound because there’s so many unresolved feelings and often times no definitive closure. In that case, rebounds usually act as a temporary distraction but once that high wears off, you realize that you still haven’t dealt with the death of the previous relationship. At least that’s been my experience.
Married to my rebound. I thought it was just a Burning Man hookup after a devastating breakup but we’ve been together almost 8 years with an 18 month old. At the time I kept trying to talk myself out of dating since I wasn’t looking and was completely shocked I met someone so quickly. But, when it happens, it happens!
Totally agree. I think he will stay with Gwen for a few more years until her age truly starts to show and then he’ll dump her for another cute, young blonde…
What makes her look different is the filler in her cheeks. If you look at her bone structure before, she never had those apple cheeks. It changes her face.
Regarding him getting married, no, I don’t blame him. He’s been married twice, and he waited the second time. He got married young to someone a few years older than him, and he was too young. He met Miranda and left. He was crazy about Miranda, but was smart enough not to rush into marriage. He was with her four years until engaged and then another year before marriage. So five years together before marriage. And that marriage ended. I would think he would be silly to get married quickly again. I think he was devastated by his marriage to Miranda falling apart. I don’t think he wants to be divorced three times.
Gwen has made a mistake putting it out there like that. All it does it put pressure on him that doesn’t help. No one carried on about Liev and Naomi not getting married. No one has carried on about Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys not getting married. These couples even have children together, and Keri has two children from a previous marriage. No one carries on about Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis never getting married and having two kids. Getting engaged in January 2013 and over five years later not married. The list goes on and on.
Agreed about the filler. Those apple cheeks look so obvious (and bad) on women in their 40s and up.
I agree. No need to get married. Just agree to be w one another and ta-da the love continues…!
Saying Blake should make a commit to Gwen just because she has kids doesn’t make sense. Jumping into a relationship and having your kids become attached to someone so quickly to me is the issue. Not to say that you can’t have fun and date but I think it must be hard on children to get attached to someone who once you break up and they are no longer in their lives.
I agree with this. But also, the kids have a father, Gavin, who by all accounts is still heavily involved in their lives.
So, while yeah it would stink if Blake disappeared at some point, they already have their Dad, who will always be their Dad, so I don’t see it as a reason for Blake to feel he should rush into marriage if he’s not ready. In fact, with kids involved, even more reason not to rush in.
I’m not sure why, but that guy gives me the heebie jeebies
Yes, he looks like a slightly less dumb version of Tori Spelling’s husband.
Yeah, not so much his looks as his aura as it were.
I’ve been married, had kids, then divorced, then in a serious relationship that ended up not working because he felt the same way Blake does. The more anxious I got about not being married the more anxious he got about being married. It took about 4 years but I finally came to the conclusion we were better off as friends because I needed something he couldn’t give me. She either needs to accept him where he is or move on if she needs what she needs more. Especially where kids are involved.
I agree with this completely. I don’t think you should have had to sacrifice your needs but I also don’t think that your ex should have had to sacrifice his either. When my BF asks “why do women need a ring to prove their relationship? It’s just a f*cking ring–it’s not a big deal.” my reply is always “If giving a ring isn’t a ‘big deal’ then why not just do it to make her happy?” 😉
It’s sad, but it kind of reminds me of the “kids vs no kids” issue. I don’t think anyone is wrong to not want kids and I don’t think anyone is wrong to want them. But that is ultimately a fundamental deal-breaker if both people aren’t on the same page.
Anyway, you handled your situation with a lot of maturity so bravo.
She needs to read or watch The Unbearable Lightness of Being. It is all about accepting your partner for who they are or letting the relationship go. Too many women, myself included in my younger years, say that he’d be great but…and think they can alter the man so that they will be ideal or perfect for them. It never works out that way.
I don’t find that she has tried to change Blake at all. He’s still an awful dresser. He still runs off to Oklahoma every chance he gets. She says that’s where you will find him when he isn’t working. He hasn’t seemed to try to change Gwen. She still wears a ton of makeup, even if more nude at times. She still wears clothes that aren’t really his style on a woman. He seems to accept her.
He has embraced a life with a woman with three children. That says a lot about him. She has embraced his love of the country, and it seems her children love it there in Oklahoma, three boys out fishing, in the woods, exploring, her extended family there a lot, etc. He seems to be close to her brother and her parents.
There has to be give and take when two adults, one with children, both with a career, come together. I think they have done it well.
Will they last past ten years? Probably not.. But it seems most don’t last past ten years, and that’s why I say it. So to single him out as some awful choice, I don’t get, when everyone in Hollywood or musicians seem to get divorced by seven to ten years. I think he treats Gwen and her children beautifully, certainly a lot better than Gavin ever treated Gwen. By all accounts, she is a wonderful mother. He showed up on tour a lot to support her. She, and sometimes her children and brother and sister-in-law, are seen a lot with him when he is out doing shows. One year is a rebound. Moving in and still together and even more integrated in each other’s lives is not a rebound. It’s a couple moving forward together and still going strong. If it doesn’t last, it doesn’t, but it doesn’t make it any less real of a relationship now.
He’s been married and divorced twice. I understand why he’s not in a rush to get engaged again. And actually, I don’t think Gwen having kids is any reason to jump into either. If anything, they are a good reason to not rush. If he does propose, he’s proposing to her and them too. He’s saying he wants to be a permanent fixture in their lives, not that you need a marriage to do that either. He made mistakes with his first wife. Who knows what happened with Miranda? I mean, really knows. There’s rumors about both of them cheating. Maybe it’s true, maybe it’s not. Maybe he’s learned a few things from that marriage too. Maybe he’s grown and he just wants to be absolutely sure and ready to make that commitment because he takes it seriously.
Well said!
She looks at sudden glance as an older Iggy Azaelea. I understand she’s a mom and is older so her style has evolved with time. Is the change for the better? debatable. but i seriously find myself longing for her ska punk fashion of her No Doubt days – even a nod. Her Blake fashion looks seems to me like she has made the most compromises to fit in with his image. She didn’t lose her identity even when she was pregnant during her marriage to Gavin Rosdale
When she was with Gavin she still dressed like a 20-year old. She definitely changed her image to fit with her current partner, not due to her ‘evolving’.
I find this sad that she doesn’t have her own identity at nearly 50 years of age.
I feel like Gavin used to help her style outfits.
I agree that Gwen has a history of wanting “happily ever after” and I can see Blake not wanting end up divorced 3X.
I think Gwen is the more successful of the two, she’s been internationally famous with No Doubt and solo, her fashion biz and large beauty contracts.
I only know him from the show they are both on. (I don’t follow country music)
I think once their show ends, this romance will be over soon after.
They aren’t even on the show together anymore. Blake is a really big country star and could probably tour endlessly for the rest of his life. She probably has more money but not that much more.
Does anyone want to talk about the reveal (if you believe these things) that the Vegas residency people were shocked to find out that Gwen can’t really sing??
How is it shocking that her voice isn’t amazing? That’s no secret. At least she sings live. They’ve already dealt with Britney not singing live at all, and Jennifer Lopez is a weak singer, and uses a lot of backing tracks for her show in Vegas and on tour.
Gwen puts on a great live show even if she’s not the best singer. She has great dancers, a great live band with her solo show. But she’s not a dancer. She was a front woman for a band. So if people are going, expecting a J-LO or Britney type show, that won’t happen. But at east she sings live. But to say she “can’t” sing is a little over the top and isn’t true.
Gwen on tour singing Truth, a new song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OdYSpSmk8Y
She should have had No Doubt do vegas show with her. I think she needs them.
She’s never been known for being an exceptional singer so I don’t know why anyone would be shocked by that. I really think she should have teamed up with No Doubt for this Vegas residency. She is an INCREDIBLE front woman for the band, but not so great solo since she doesn’t dance and only has maybe 3 big solo hits. But…she wanted all the money for herself I guess.
I agree. I don’t like when she does ND songs without the band. It is really weird to me. I am an old school No Doubt fan and I wish they had been able to keep it together better then they did. I feel like when she finally left Gavin she felt liberated and left the band for good. Things probably had been tense within the band for awhile.
I think Blake wants a baby of his own. If she were 15 years younger, they’d be wedding planning now.
They could use someone else’s egg and his sperm. My friend did that. She carried the baby. There are ways to have children, you know.
I fully agree.
Ouch. Definitely not what she wants to hear
She’s unrecognizable.
She looks totally different, more generic. I think it was a face lift and fillers. Google image her from around 2007. A different person. She looks good but she should STOP. Just age, and be happy Gwen. She has such a light airy personality, and seems like a really good person.
I can’t imagine Blake Shelton would be out here saying this stuff if he and Gwen hadn’t talked about their relationship at least once or twice.
That said, how tf is this guy the sexiest man alive. I don’t get it.
Of course, they’ve talked about it. He moved in with her and the children. You don’t do that without having a talk about your future.
She looks like Heidi Montag now.
Hair experts: I’m curious–is that her hair? Or is it her hair plus extensions? Or is the whole thing a wig? Isn’t she naturally dark-headed, but she’s been bleaching her hair for years? Isn’t that hard on your hair?
Thanks, just always wondered.
Those are extensions. She has a hairstylist that comes to her house once a week and does her roots with a qtip! He is often in her Instagram stories. They spend lots of time together. It is a high maintenance look.
I’m just shocked they’re still together.
It seems like the ball is in his court which personally I would not like. I feel he gets to decide the outcome and not her. I like more leverage in my relationships.
She really is doing some face work–she’s trying to be a Kardashian
Yikes—he’s saying “not right now” I response to the wedding chatter?? Instead of letting his lady save face after she said on national television that she thinks about marrying him all the time,” he says “not right now.” Ouch. Poor Gwen. I hope she finds someone who adores her and makes her hapot. Blake is saying (literally) he is not the one.
Maybe after two years he shouldn’t have a girlfriend giving interviews about how she thinks about marriage all the time. Have you ever thought of that? She is putting her famous boyfriend, who gives interviews for The Voice and for his musical career, on the spot to be asked , because she keeps throwing things out there about marriage. And sure enough, he was asked and put on the spot, because she is fanning the flames of interest about a proposal. Blame her. She knows he’s not ready to get engaged. Instead of acting like a coy schoolgirl about dreaming about a marriage proposal, she should say they are enjoying their relationship right now the way it is. She knows what she’s doing, and I doubt he appreciates it.
Where has he said she’s not the one? He is newly divorced. She is also. They jumped into a relationship that ended up working. There are three kids involved. He has moved into her home. He has said before he’s the happiest he’s ever been in a relationship. He obviously is in love with her to move into her home. According to your timeline, because he doesn’t put a ring on it after two years, he’s not that into her? Jaysus. They should be tentative about rushing into a marriage after having marriages that didn’t work. Julianne Moore’s husband didn’t ask her to get married until eight years after living together. They have two children, now teenagers. I didn’t hear anyone saying he didn’t love her.
I see what you’re saying and I agree–Gwen shouldn’t be out there opening discussing her desire to get married, especially because she knows he’s not ready to commit in that way. I was just hoping Blake would be the bigger person and respond graciously with your suggested answer that they “are enjoying their relationship as it is.” I felt a little bad for her that he outright contradicted her in the press about something so personal, but to your point, she is the one who made the first public statement about it.
Also, I’m not saying they should/shouldn’t get married. I just think this public airing of differences speaks volumes.
To me it looks like a TIGHT facelift. That’s how it looks to me in the undereye/cheekbone area.
Gwen, you don’t need any more tweaking. Just stop with this.