Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton are still together. It’s been years now. Reportedly, they’re still very much in love, and Gwen takes her sons to Blake’s Tishomingo, Oklahoma ranch all the time. Reportedly, Gwen and her boys love in Oklahoma and Blake loves to spend a lot of time doing guy-things with her sons, treating them as if they’re his own kids. Blake even altered his ranch for Gwen, that’s how much time they spend there. It also wouldn’t surprise me at all if Blake had basically moved into Gwen’s LA home. They are pretty much married except for the paperwork.
So is it any surprise that Blake joined Gwen and her sons at church for Easter Sunday? No, it doesn’t surprise me. Despite his down-home country vibe, Blake doesn’t strike me as very churchy, but I bet he likes the fact that Gwen is a good Catholic woman who is raising her children in the church. Blake even helped out with the kids, carrying the youngest boy (Apollo?) out as they were leaving. I think Blake drove them to church too. They’re such an odd couple and yet it really works?
Incidentally, I’ve talked about Gwen’s sometimes-odd church fashion before, but clearly I have no clue about modern church-wear. But to all the Catholics out there: would you wear fishnet stockings to Easter Mass??? Also: I know Gwen is 48 years old and everything but I’m totally getting “bump” vibes from these photos.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
The youngest has to be four or five by now. Why the pacifier?
He probably doesn’t use it very much, my guess is to make sure he stays quiet during Easter Sunday mass. Nobody wants to get the church death glares!
In the South you’d get death glares if your four year old still used a pacifier! No biggie though. To each his own binky 🙂
Even where I live, it’s very uncommon to see kids his age with a pacifier. I know some people give them at nighttime to help soothe but in the middle of the day like this? He must be very attached to it.
Apollo is 4, so a bit old for a pacifier, but not as bad as 5. Yes to each his own binky, (Great comment by the way) No judgement with the third boy at Easter Mass. Pacifiers could be pleasing to the other churchgoers ears.
Her fishnets look okay as they aren’t really that loud in my opinion, and even at 48 I wouldn’t be surprised if she was pregnant. She kind of looks it. I’m getting those vibes too.
My friend’s daughter still uses one at four. Some kids just hold onto it for longer due to oral fixation or anxiety reasons. Where my friend’s kid is concerned, the little girl has pica, so it helps to blunt her impulse to eat things she shouldn’t.
Re: anxiety. I saw something yesterday where Blake picked up the child as soon as he (Blake) saw paparazzi as they exited the church. The kid looked really distressed and buried his head in Blake’s neck.
My friend’s daughter used a pacifier until she was about 4 or 5 and it was for anxiety reasons. They had to find a new item that she was comfortable with before they could transition from the pacifier. Every kid is different and it probably gives him a sense of security
I understand that when parents split when kids are babies and toddlers, they need a little extra security/are a tad later in leaving stuff like the pacifier behind. Also saw this in my extended family. Long term all is well.
He turned four about a month ago so he’s like an old 3 year old now lol.
It’s such a lazy thing to do. It makes life easier for the parents, but at the expense of the child’s teeth. the pacifier can affect the angle of permanent teeth coming in, even though the child only has baby teeth at the time. It affects both the roof of the mouth, can lead to crooked teeth, or overbite. By age 2 it can start to cause dental problems.
Most kids teeth rebound from pacifiers. Such a lazy argument. It’s not lazy parenting to let your child hold on to something that comforts them. What a ridiculous argument.
You never know what is going on in someone’s life, what issues they may be facing, possible illnesses, anxieties, etc. The pacifier might be just right for the kid for right now.
My pediatrician always had the best advice when I worried about my kids hitting certain signposts or my kids being on a different time frame than the “average” — “Well, they’ll probably grow out of it/get around to it by the time they hit 18.”
God forbid! Get over it
My son had a pacifier until he was just over four. He issed it during the day until he was well over 3. We were dealing with serious anxiety issues, a severe speech delay and other issues that may or may not all be autism (we’re on the waiting list for diagnosis). He used to be terrified of children if he heard them laughing or crying and the pacifier really soothed him. I can’t count the amount of times I had strangers telling me he was too old and advising me on how to get rid of it. It was really upsetting. You never know what’s going on with other people’s children. The policing of other people’s parenting really needs to stop.
How dare parents try to make life easy for themselves! Parenting should be joyless and difficult with no possible shortcuts. Tisk tisk.
Holy crap the judgement. My child clearly had ‘pacifier mouth’ at three and now at four you’d never know. Dentists have told us the mouth is still so mailable by age three that it’s not an issue. This was with a kid who ONLY had it in the night or car.
Honestly, walk a mile in a parents shoes first.
They’re introducing the kid to religion and you’re worried about the pacifier?
Growing up we dressed up. Suits for males dresses for females.
I am no longer Christian, gone pagan, but people dress like they want now.
God sees your heart. The pastor’s wife sees your outfit. God>pastor’s wife 🙂
Hope everyone had a lovely and restful Easter/Passover!
I’ve seen all sorts of outfits in church and the general feeling is: being there is more important than what you wear. I think they all look fine, though I’m surprised that Gwen didn’t use the opportunity to rock a big Easter bonnet.
I want to a brunch at an hotel in a country town and EVERYONE was “Sunday best”. I have to say it was refreshing. Me and my party of friends dressed up too, no jeans no phones no hangover faces. One of my favorite days ever!
Did she coordinate an orange fluff ball ring to her outfit and shoes? Props for that level of attention to detail.
I’m not as concerned with her outfit as I am about her face, it makes me sad for her. She needs to chill with whatever she’s doing and realize she’s beautiful.
I hate what she has done to her face.
I hate it too. She was so pretty and unique, now there is nothing of the old Gwen in her face.
Agreed. I would not have known that was her if she hadn’t been ID’d.
I barely recognized her on the pics.
She got the Real Housewives special.
I came here to ask who’s face is she wearing? She looks nothing like her former self. It’s very sad.
This is my only hesitancy with botox and fillers. I think people forget what they actually look like and take it too far.
Me too, I want to get a little Botox around my eyes and maaaaybe my mouth but I’m terrified I’ll do something I can’t come back from.
@Jess-yes, it’s a slippery slope. One thing leads to another thing leads to over-examining every “flaw”. I started with botox and was contemplating filler and I just recently said “f-it.” I live in SoCal-I’m just going to embrace being in my 50s rather than fighting it (which is kind of the exception around me.)
Yep. It’s not settling well.
Her face looks like it’s collapsing…
Yes she looks so different and I’m not talking about the lighter (for her) make up.
Yeah, that face looks like it belongs to someone else. I remember when Ivana Trump got her new face after she divorced “The Donald” and I wondered how her kids would react to seeing mommy with someone else’s face. Not my business then or now but I wonder how Gwen’s kids reacted?
There was a Canadian celebrity named Jeannie Bekker who as she got close to 40 asked her kids if she should get a face lift. Her youngest apparently responded “No, mommy, your face is high enough already”.
The lips are the worst she’s done…and now she’s getting that chipmunk cheek look too. She was so beautiful and would have aged well naturally. Unfortunately she’s very insecure and vain and afraid her men will leave her if she looks a day over 35.
Same here. She is barely recognizable.
She looks a bit like Posh spice in some of the photos. other photos not at all. I’m enjoying that she’s branching out from her traditional look, that can be hard to do once you’ve set in on a style. She looks great though.
I see Jessica Alba.
I see Victoria Beckham and a little Melissa Gilbert.
Her face??? What happened to it?
My reaction exactly.
My thoughts too- she very close to Joan RIvers level fillers… For a “rocker” she sure spends a fortune trying to look young..
Easter was always a bit more dressy back when I attended church. If her fishnets are an issue, I’d point out that maybe an adult man could wear nicer pants than jeans…
I started watching the Voice again because I love Kelly Clarkson (and she does not disappoint!) and I remembered how I didn’t like Blake. I get a weird vibe from him.
Or at least darker jeans and not those faded dad jeans, lol. They are such a bizarre couple to me.
I just came here to say I seriously thought that was Tomi what’s-her-name at first. The FOX bitch. Sorry, Gwen, that’s mybad.
Her name is Tammy Lauren.
I believe her name is Tony Lasagna.
Such shade ☂
I think you meant Tomato Lawnchair?
I saw her birth certifcate: name is Tomato Lasagna. Believe me.
I’m not even Christian anymore but my Southern upbringing still has me twitching when I see people in jeans at church.
I feel the same way. Old fashion but I like to see people dressed up for church, funerals, weddings and job interviews.
I’m in the south, but I do good just to *get* to church once in a while (I don’t make it a priority – the hypocrisy with some of the people here is too much for me), so I just wear jeans and a sweater or something. And my son is HFA and hates clothes period, almost EVERYTHING is “scratchy” to him, so I just let him wear sweats. The Lord knows I’m there for the right reasons and what’s in my heart.
My friend’s daughter has the same issue with clothes, totally understandable.
I remember a relative passing away and one of the cousins showed up to the funeral in sweatpants, sneakers, and a t-shirt. She looked awful, like she’d just rolled out of bed, and clearly just didn’t care, it seemed disrespectful. I don’t think you need to go fancy, but at least put a little effort in for an event like that.
Jeans and a sweater sound fine to me for regular church services.
A friend of mine had three little boys. One of her friends kept all the kids in matching hand knit sweaters – as the boys got bigger, a new larger sweater was knitted and the smaller ones were made into hand-me-downs. It was adorable but I understand that not all parents have a hand knitter on speed dial.
I used to see a man who came into church looking like he had just left work at a manual labour job. He would come in a bit late and join his wife and several children who were already there. I respected him for trying to set a good example for his kids.
I’m from a super Catholic country and everyone wears jeans to church, even on Easter.
Interesting. Different strokes. Where I grew up Easter is the whole point of Christianity. If you don’t show up and show out for Christ on that day, what are you even doing? You’d put more care into your appearance for Earthly pleasures and desires, but not for your Lord and Savior, your Heavenly Redeemer, on HIS day?! Per my nanan. lol.
Also, Easter used to be our version of the Met Gala. Easter fashions got me into clothes. The women were colorful and vibrant. The men sharp and smooth. The hats. The shoes. There were LOOKS.
It’s just funny hearing people say they showed or show up casually to Church. That was not my life.
I need an ID on those pumps, STAT!
I know, right?! Someone help us out! They are adorable! I love the shade of yellow.
They’re Christian Louboutin.
She is pictured coming out of church quite often. I wonder if they are working on getting annulments, and that’s why they aren’t married yet?
I like them as a couple.
He’s been married and divorced twice before the age of 40. I hope they keep on waiting. He will eventually move on to the next blonde.
It doesn’t even look like her??
She looks great. He’s been living with her for a while now just from comments made by them, but probably longer than I even realized.
What did she do to her face?
Here comes Judgy McJudgerson!
By Jove, that outfit is a lot for church. Mini dress, with high heels, fishnets and leopard print bag? Almost enough to distract from the fact that her surgery has moved from “you can stop now” to “point of no return”. Oh well. Happy Easter everyone!
That is an awfully short hemline for an Easter service. I mean, the outfit is cute and very her, but I wouldn’t be surprised if she had some judge-y looks sent her way.
Her face looks really different. Fillers, do we think? Something around the cheeks looks fuller.
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If I had her legs, I would make this outfit look absolutely virginal. I’d wear those fishnets, a leather miniskirt that barely covered me, and a lovely matching halter top in a spring pastel. But, sadly, I don’t have her legs, so I wore a Peeps pink outfit, and satisfied my wild urges by matching it with a daffodil yellow purse. My granddaughter thought I looked “bootiful”.
At the end of the day, I think the sentiment you bring to church is more important than the clothing, but I remember how strict and formal my mother’s Catholic upbringing was. A hem above the knee would get a lot of hens clucking, lol.
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So sweet. Your granddaughter has excellent taste, clearly.
I agree about the hemline. I give the late-teen/young 20-somethings a pass for that hemline because they don’t know any better and their parents are probably not choosing that hill to die on – but Gwen knows better!
I go to Mass every Sunday and people dress however they please and nobody blinks an eye. There is a bit more dressing up on Easter (especially among the younger girls), but basically you can see anything from sweatpants to blue jeans to dresses (all lengths and types) etc. I’ve never seen anyone show the slightest disapproval whatever the garb. This is in the Northeast btw.
Yup I am in the northeast and my church is on a college campus. I see everything from yoga pants to suits. Honestly no one ever looks bad or sloppy. But it definitely isn’t formal. There is one family that I think comes straight in from their farm. Always overalls and straw hats. But they are there every week and contribute to all the service activities. And the college kids may be in yoga pants or sweatshirts but again none of them look sloppy, just what a college kids wears on Sunday. I think it’s fantastic that they are there. A few girls are in the choir. In their yoga pants. I have a co worker who won’t attend church anymore over being scarred as a child by her mother’s insistence on outfit perfection. And having To change a million Times and the constant worry about what people will think. So in the long run I take outfit flexibility and showing up and caring over perfection and stress.
I grew up Catholic in the Midwest and that isn’t an outfit anybody would wear to Easter Sunday mass without getting some LOOKS. But that was a long time ago and not California, so what do I know…my mom probably would have objected more to the jeans than the fishnets.
You should see her outfits from any old Sunday mass – this is tame by comparison. I think the parishioners are used to her by now.
Sunshine – you are right. Last year at Easter her outfit was not appropriate at all for church. She looked like she was trying to upstage Jesus.
Whatever rocks you boat I say. My mother still hyperventilates when she tells me that they would not let her in at the Fatima cathedral (Portugal) because she was wearing trousers (in the 60’s) so my default attitude is to say wear whatever you want. The only requirement is the will to work towards a kind heart.
I remember visiting the Vatican in the early 90s and they were turning people away for wearing shorts in August. Knees and shoulders had to be covered.
They still do, I believe. They do it in eastern orthodox churches too. I was turned away from a church in Moscow for shoving a smidgeon of knee.
I’ve got family in Tishomingo and everyone says Gwen is super friendly and she’s there a lot. I guess people weren’t really crazy about Miranda.
I hope these two get married and have babies, either by natural means, surragate, foster, adoption……they have the means and they seem very happy together.
I choose to believe 🙂
Agree. My impression (ha ha) is they both have good hearts, formerly married to not-so-nice people, and they found each other. They both still seem crazy surprised over the difference.
Miranda once said in an interview, when married to Blake, that Blake is always happy. That what you see with Blake that’s who he is, always in a good mood. She said she can go into dark moods. So she said he was good for her, but she thought she was good for him also, to make him be more serious at times. I think his relationship with Gwen is just easier due to their personalities. It’s amazing that having three kids, one only two when they got together, didn’t cause problems, but he seems to have embraced it. Gwen’s brother and sister-in-law and little girl are out there with them in Oklahoma a lot.
Wow the oldest boy is a carbon copy of his daddy! They seem like a happy family.
Wow. Her oldest son suddenly looks exactly like Gavin Rosedale in the photo. Didn’t see or notice this before.
He’s always looked like Gavin, from a young age. He’s like a mini Gavin.
He looked like Gwen when he was young, but now he looks like Gavin. Zuma looks like Gwen’s father and Apollo looks like Gwen’s mother. Apollo is so cute, he’s gonna be a little heart breaker!
I also think she is more secure in this relationship. She used to wear pounds and pounds of makeup for Gavin and she seems to have toned that down for Blake.
She’s replaced the pounds of makeup with pounds of juvaderm.
This. Scary face.
The oldest and youngest are ‘Easter church’ ready although the pacifier makes me cringe. The middle seems to be all “too cool for school” Blake is like “well, at least I wore a jacket” & Gwen, well, her outfit isn’t exactly inappropriate but if I’d seen a girlfriend walking in that ensemble I would never have guessed she was going to to church. I’ll just say there’s a lot of things celebs wear that they can get away with no matter where it is bc they’re celebs.
I don’t care how people come dressed for church.Church is not a fashion show or a club with a dress code.
Come as you are.
The pacifier is not that big of a deal to me.When the kids were little and I was worried about bottles and toilet training my pediatrician used to say that none of the kids will walk down the aisle (this was years ago) still wearing pampers and sucking on their binkies.
Uhoh I think Gwen’s visiting Victoria Beckham’s plastic surgeon and it’s not a good look. She’s morphing into sad frozen Posh spice.
STOP FACE SHAMING HER!
It’s not her face. So no shaming involved.
She looks different, can’t put my finger on it tho. Maybe because of no lipstick????? Idk she just looks totally different.
Maybe she LIKES her face? Obviously she has work done, perhaps more than most of us would find appealing.
Big deal, as long as she likes it (same with her church clothes). Do we always need some deep rooted, nefarious reason why people choose a certain path…insecurity, aging, daddy issues etc? Can’t it just be because hey, it makes me feel good.
I’m 35 years old, and I still have my “security pillow”, that I sleep with every night. My husband tried to steal it, so I had to make him his own. True story. So in conclusion… that kid is ok with his binky in my books 😂😂😂