Gwen Stefani created a place as her own world, and she’s Blake Shelton’s favorite girl.
Indeed, “The Sweet Escape” singer recently detailed how her relationship with her current husband felt like a rebirth after her divorce from Gavin Rossdale, to whom she was married for 12 years.
“Meeting my husband felt like a second chance at life,” Gwen—who shares kids Kingston, 18, Zuma, 16, and Apollo, 10 with her ex—explained to the Guardian in an article published Nov. 14. “Because when my family fell apart, it felt like a catastrophe.How do you pick yourself up from that? But God put this other person there to love me.”
And Gwen even noted that her newest album, Bouquet out Nov. 15, is inspired by the relationship she grew with Blake from that initial bud.
“I know this sounds weird, but Blake and I came together in gardening,” she explained. “We have a house together in Oklahoma and during the pandemic we came across this very old building on the land and there were some purple irises, which someone must have planted centuries ago, but they’ve survived.”
She continued, adding of her duet on the LP with the country music singer, “I wrote the song ‘Purple Irises’ about that and how it feels to find true love and the insecurities of not wanting to lose it.”
Gwen’s recent praise of her relationship with Blake—whom she married in 2021 after six years of dating—is only the latest of the couple’s sweet moments. In fact, Blake—who has previously been married to Miranda Lambert and Kaynette Gern—has compared the couple’s relationship to that of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s for both couple’s willingness to be public about their romances.
“That’s what Gwen and I did,” Blake explained on a September episode of The Pat McAffee Show. “It’s like, ‘Look, I’m dating Gwen Stefani. I want the f–kin’ world to know that.’”
Gabe Ginsberg/Getty Images for Keep Memory AliveBlake—who met Gwen while they were judging The Voice together in 2015—has certainly practiced what he preached, often gushing over the No Doubt alum on social media.
As he wrote in her birthday shoutout last year, Gwen is his “favorite all time person ever born in any time period in the history of mankind!!!!!”
Keep reading for more sweet things this couple has said about each other.
Kevin Mazur/WireImage“I think he’s hot, don’t you? But to be super honest, it is kind of crazy we both went through the same thing at the same time. There’s been so many people that I’ve gotten so much comfort from. Just people coming to me and telling me their story. Not confiding, but sharing, which has just helped me see things from a different perspective and move forward.” —Gwen to Ryan Seacrest in November 2015
Kevin Mazur/BBMA2017/Getty Images for dcp“How can I not be [in love]? She is the greatest. She is the greatest.” —Blake on Today in March 2018.
Photo By Jeff Kravitz/ACMA2019/FilmMagic for ACM“When you have a broken heart—at least, when I do—you got to get it out of your system. You want people to sympathize with you. I was at rock bottom, in the middle of hell…Gwen saved my life. Who else on earth could understand going through a high-profile divorce from another musician?” —Blake to Billboard in July 2016
Twitter“I grew up in Orange County, so I don’t know if you’ve been down there, but it’s nothing like the middle of America and our nature was the beach. So to be able to be in Oklahoma and be able to experience a ranch kind of vibe is just something I never ever had, so it’s just been really, it’s been great, amazing.” —Gwen on Jimmy Kimmel Live in August 2020
Harmony Gerber/Getty Images“You know, what? I love weddings. The kids love him. We love him. Everybody loves him. He is lovable! I think about it all the time.” —Gwen to Ellen DeGeneres when discussing marrying Blake
Rich Fury/Getty Images for The Recording Academy“[My style is] more feminine than ever before. It’s probably because I’m super in love and have a really manly man. I enjoy letting that part of me come out now because when I was in No Doubt, I never thought of myself as sexy. Even in my 30s, I was a tomboy. I hardly ever carried a purse.” —Gwen to InStyle in July 2018
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“He doesn’t even like to do a photo shoot. You can never convince him to do it. So he just called me like, ‘They want me to do this.’ And I was like, ‘You should totally do it! You’re so sexy!'” —Gwen’s reaction to Blake being named People‘s Sexiest Man Alive
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“He’s so good at the show, I mean, he’s just so magical. Blake is literally a unicorn. Like anywhere he goes, people are just attracted to him, and he’s such an incredible talent.” —Gwen on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Live in September 2019
Todd Williamson/E! Entertainment/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images“Setting here watching @gwenstefani rehearsals it continues to shock me the amount of GIANT hits this girl has written… I highly recommend y’all catch her Vegas show if you can get tickets!!!” —Blake on Twitter in June 2018
