{"id":322966,"date":"2026-03-10T20:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322966\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:07:07","slug":"gwen-stefani-says-pregnancy-at-44-led-her-back-to-christian-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/322966\/","title":{"rendered":"Gwen Stefani says pregnancy at 44 led her back to Christian faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">The No Doubt singer told him: \u201cI\u2019m sorry, your mommy is too old to have a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">She recalled: \u201cIt was like, four weeks later, and I was pregnant with Apollo. I had him at 44 years old, naturally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Gwen \u2013 who has sons Kingston, Zuma, 17, and Apollo, 12 with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale \u2013 described becoming a mother for a third time as a \u201cfull-on gift\u201d and \u201cthe first miracle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">She felt under pressure at the time because she didn\u2019t think she understood Christianity enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">She added: \u201cIt\u2019s almost scary because the more you know, the more fear you get. You realise, \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<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">She and Rossdale married 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">Back in January, the 49-year-old country singer dismissed speculation the couple are heading for divorce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">He told Country Countdown USA: \u201cStarting in October, I think, or maybe November, I started noticing these articles popping up about \u2018Blake and Gwen, they\u2019re split up.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">\u201c\u2018They\u2019re not even seeing each other anymore, they\u2019re going through a divorce.\u2019 And then, you know, a week later a picture comes out of us walking out of the grocery store: \u2018Oh, they\u2019re back together again!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"QOlBexkCgF\" style=\"display:none\">The Honey Bee singer joked: \u201cAnd another week goes by and we\u2019re not seen at the grocery store: \u2018They\u2019re divorcing!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No Doubt singer told him: \u201cI\u2019m sorry, your mommy is too old to have a baby.\u201d She&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[38116,74,1975,1863,16717,82648,17040,156,7643,174108,1364,18557,111,139,69,5994,2247,312,174109,61,19054],"class_list":{"0":"post-322966","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-38116","9":"tag-after","10":"tag-at","11":"tag-back","12":"tag-becoming","13":"tag-christian","14":"tag-christianity","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-faith","17":"tag-gwen","18":"tag-her","19":"tag-led","20":"tag-new-zealand","21":"tag-newzealand","22":"tag-nz","23":"tag-pregnancy","24":"tag-pregnant","25":"tag-says","26":"tag-stefani","27":"tag-to","28":"tag-turned"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}