Gwen Stefani says getting pregnant with son Apollo Bowie Flynn Rossdale at age 43 helped inspire her to become a Christian.
“I really wanted to have another baby. I really did,” Stefani, 56, explained in an interview published on the “Hallow: Prayers and Meditation” YouTube channel on Thursday, March 5. “I couldn’t and I was old and [I] started talking about all these things … it was waking me up.”
Stefani tied her emerging Christian faith to welcoming her son Apollo in February 2014, just after she’d turned 44. (Stefani and ex-husband Gavin Rossdale share three sons: Kingston James McGregor Rossdale, born in May 2006, Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, born in August 2008, and Apollo. Stefani split from Rossdale, 60, in 2015 and married her Voice costar Blake Shelton in 2021.)
The three-time Grammy Award winner reflected on how her spiritual revelation occurred shortly after she started working with a friend who’d gone from being “an atheist Jew” to a believer.
“I started working with this guy, and he was really like an atheist Jew that converted after being an atheist growing up in Israel,” she noted. “He was studying the Torah, and he had this big epiphany [and] awakening and he starts talking to me about the Torah.”
Stefani recalled that, around the same time, her eldest son, Kingston, said he “really wanted [her] to have a baby.”
“[I told him], ‘I’m sorry. Mommy is too old to have a baby.’ … [Kingston] was 8. He was like, ‘Please God, let my mommy have a baby,’” Stefani remembered. “I just remember thinking, look at my little boy. He’s praying for me!”
Kingston started praying for his parents to have another child “every night” even though neither of them ever asked him to do it, according to Stefani.
“I never taught him that, really,” she admitted. “I think it was four weeks later and I was pregnant with Apollo, who I had at 44 years old, naturally, totally a full-on gift. That was the first miracle.”
Stefani acknowledged that she went into that period of self-discovery feeling “ignorant” before conceding that she still “doesn’t know enough” about Christianity.
“It’s almost scary because the more you know, the more fear you get,” she said. “You realize, ‘Oh my gosh, I’m running out of time and I need to get this together. I’ve got to be a real Christian! I’m not gonna make it.’”
Asked how her faith has changed in the past years, Stefani answered, “I remember it was 2020. It was during COVID [and I was] searching online. Thank god for online. It’s horrible out there but there’s so much good information too.”
She added, “I found Pastor Mike Schmitz … That sermon really changed [me]. I remember just bawling and being on fire. Like, I had found this truth.”
Since that time, Stefani has partnered with the Catholic app Hallow, which describes itself as “a Christian prayer app that offers audio-guided meditation sessions to help us grow in our faith & spiritual lives and find peace in God.” Their partnership for a Christmas advent campaign proved to be controversial in December 2025 when Hallow’s anti-abortion messaging resurfaced.
“It is important this holiday season to spend time in prayer. That is what Christmas is all about: letting God into our hearts and letting Jesus bring us his peace,” Stefani encouraged her followers at the time. “Download Hallow and join me and millions of others in praying every day this advent and Christmas season on Hallow.”
Selling Sunset star Chrishell Stause was among those to call out Stefani’s partnership with Hallow, even invoking No Doubt’s 1995 song ‘Don’t Speak.’
“Gwen-DON’T SPEAK,” Stause, 44, demanded via Instagram in December 2025. “Please take your own advice on this one????.”
The reality star doubled down by later condemning Stefani for “taking money to promote an app that encourages anti-abortion, even in cases of [rape] and incest.”
“Please stop making young girls feel guilty to not have a choice,” Stause wrote.
She went on, “‘Don’t speak’ is a play on words. She can say what she wants, and I can oppose it. If your child got pregnant by a pedophile, would you want Gwen Stephanie [sic] making her feel guilty to keep [the baby]? I wouldn’t.”
Stefani has not responded to Stause’s criticism of her Hallow promotion.
