Gwen Stefani says getting pregnant with son Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale at age 43 helped encourage her to develop into a Christian.
“I actually needed to have one other child. I actually did,” Stefani, 56, defined in an interview revealed on the “Hallow: Prayers and Meditation” YouTube channel on Thursday, March 5. “I couldn’t and I used to be outdated and (I) began speaking about all this stuff … it was waking me up.”
Stefani tied her rising Christian religion to welcoming her son Apollo in February 2014, simply after she’d turned 44. (Stefani and ex-husband Gavin Rossdale share three sons: Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, born in Might 2006, Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, born in August 2008, and Apollo. Stefani cut up from Rossdale, 60, in 2015 and married her Voice costar Blake Shelton in 2021.)
The three-time Grammy Award winner mirrored on how her religious revelation occurred shortly after she began working with a pal who’d gone from being “an atheist Jew” to a believer.
“I began working with this man, and he was actually like an atheist Jew that transformed after being an atheist rising up in Israel,” she famous. “He was learning the Torah, and he had this large epiphany (and) awakening and he begins speaking to me in regards to the Torah.”
Stefani recalled that, across the identical time, her eldest son, Kingston, mentioned he “actually needed (her) to have a child.”
“(I informed him), ‘I’m sorry. Mommy is just too outdated to have a child.’ … (Kingston) was 8. He was like, ‘Please God, let my mommy have a child,’” Stefani remembered. “I simply keep in mind considering, take a look at my little boy. He’s praying for me!”
Kingston began praying for his dad and mom to have one other little one “each night time” though neither of them ever requested him to do it, in line with Stefani.
“I by no means taught him that, actually,” she admitted. “I feel it was 4 weeks later and I used to be pregnant with Apollo, who I had at 44 years outdated, naturally, completely a full-on present. That was the primary miracle.”
Gwen Stefani in December 2025.
Getty Photographs/ANGELA WEISS / AFPStefani acknowledged that she went into that interval of self-discovery feeling “ignorant” earlier than conceding that she nonetheless “doesn’t know sufficient” about Christianity.
“It’s virtually scary as a result of the extra you recognize, the extra worry you get,” she mentioned. “You understand, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m working out of time and I must get this collectively. I’ve obtained to be an actual Christian! I’m not gonna make it.’”
Requested how her religion has modified prior to now years, Stefani answered, “I keep in mind it was 2020. It was throughout COVID (and I used to be) looking out on-line. Thank god for on-line. It’s horrible on the market however there’s a lot good data too.”
She added, “I discovered Pastor Mike Schmitz … That sermon actually modified (me). I keep in mind simply bawling and being on hearth. Like, I had discovered this fact.”
Since that point, Stefani has partnered with the Catholic app Hallow, which describes itself as “a Christian prayer app that provides audio-guided meditation classes to assist us develop in our religion & religious lives and discover peace in God.” Their partnership for a Christmas introduction marketing campaign proved to be controversial in December 2025 when Hallow’s anti-abortion messaging resurfaced.
Throughout Gwen Stefani’s first being pregnant, she was only a woman making an attempt to have all of it, which included a profitable music profession. “I discover out I’m pregnant with Kingston and I used to be in rehearsals, and I used to be, like, so sick,” Stefani, 54, recalled throughout an upcoming episode of “The Skinny Confidential Him & Her Podcast” by way of (…)
“It will be important this vacation season to spend time in prayer. That’s what Christmas is all about: letting God into our hearts and letting Jesus deliver us his peace,” Stefani inspired her followers on the time. “Obtain Hallow and be a part of me and hundreds of thousands of others in praying every single day this introduction and Christmas season on Hallow.”
Promoting Sundown star Chrishell Stause was amongst these to name out Stefani’s partnership with Hallow, even invoking No Doubt’s 1995 music ‘Don’t Converse.’
“Gwen-DON’T SPEAK,” Stause, 44, demanded by way of Instagram in December 2025. “Please take your individual recommendation on this one🫠.”
The fact star doubled down by later condemning Stefani for “taking cash to advertise an app that encourages anti-abortion, even in instances of (rape) and incest.”
“Please cease making younger ladies really feel responsible to not have a selection,” Stause wrote.
She went on, “‘Don’t communicate’ is a play on phrases. She will be able to say what she desires, and I can oppose it. In case your little one obtained pregnant by a pedophile, would you need Gwen Stephanie (sic) making her really feel responsible to maintain (the child)? I wouldn’t.”
Stefani has not responded to Stause’s criticism of her Hallow promotion.