Gwen Stefani is opening up on how faith has inspired her and maybe even helped her conceive her youngest child.<\/p>\n
The \u201cDon\u2019t Speak\u201d hitmaker spoke with the \u201cHallow: Prayer & Meditation\u201d podcast<\/a>, recalling that at age 44, she was \u201cdesperate\u201d for another child with then husband Gavin Rossdale.<\/p>\n Around that time, her oldest son, Kingston, approached her and said, “Mommy, I just I really want you to have a baby.”<\/p>\n She told him, “I said ‘I’m sorry, your mommy’s too old to have a baby now,’ you know,” but noted that he began praying for her to have another baby \u201con his own.\u201d<\/p>\n “He was like ‘Please God let my mom have a baby,’ and I just was just sitting there going wow, look at my little boy he’s praying for me like he was doing it every night and I never asked him to do that never taught him that really,” Stefani said. “I think it was like four weeks later and I was pregnant with Apollo who you know, I had at 44 years old naturally. Totally a full-on gift. And that was the first miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe Voice\u201d coach married Rossdale in a Catholic church in 2002 before getting divorced 14 years later, while their marriage was reportedly annulled in 2021, the same year she married Blake Shelton. She and Rossdale share three sons in total, Kingston,19, Zuma, 17, and Apollo, 12.<\/p>\n Stefani felt Apollo\u2019s birth was a sign that she was \u201crunning out of time\u201d and she needed to reaffirm her faith.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s almost scary because the more you know, the more fear you get. You realize, \u2018Oh my gosh, I\u2019m running out of time and I need to get this together. I\u2019ve got to be a real Christian! I\u2019m not gonna make it,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The singer, who had been raised Catholic, considers herself a \u201cbaby Christian\u201d and is \u201ccertainly a work in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n Follow us on Instagram @WeArePauseRewind<\/a> for all your pop culture obsessions.<\/p>\n