No Doubt singer Gwen Stefani says ‘miracle’ baby at 44 sparked a religious awakening

Gwen Stefani opens up about her faith and finding God. Photo / Hallow: Prayer & Meditation

No Doubt singer and The Voice judge Gwen Stefani says having a baby when she was 44 delivered her a spiritual epiphany.

“I was desperate at this point,” said Stefani, now 56, in an interview on Hallow: Prayer & Meditation. “I really wanted to have another baby. I really did. I couldn’t, and I was old.”

Stefani, who is a practising Catholic, was working with an Israeli “atheist Jew” at the time and the pair had long conversation about religion.

Gwen Stefani and her son, Kingston Rossdale, are seen in Los Angeles in 2013. Photo / JB Lacroix, WireImage

“He was studying the Torah, and he had this big epiphany awakening, and he started talking to me about the Torah.”

At the time, Stefani couldn’t have another baby but the conversation about the man’s conversion to Judaism sparked Stefani’s own awakening.

Then her oldest son, Kingston, started asking for a sibling. Stefani told her son she was too old, and that was when he started to pray.

“He was like ‘Please God, let my mom have a baby’,” said Stefani. “And he was doing it every night.”

Then four weeks later Stefani was pregnant.

“I had him at 44 years old, naturally,” she said, calling it a “full-on gift. And that was the first miracle.”

Since then Stefani has done more to learn about Christianity.

“It’s almost scary because the more you know, the more fear you get,” she said. “You realise, ‘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.’”

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton got engaged after five years together. Photo / Supplied

Stefani shares three sons with English musician Gavin Rossdale, Kingston, 19, Zuma, 17, and Apollo, 12. The pair were married from 2002 to 2015.

They split in 2015 and she married her co-star from The Voice, Blake Shelton, in 2021.

Stefani rose to fame in 1995 as the frontwoman for No Doubt with their breakout album, Tragic Kingdom, with cultural touchstones like Don’t Speak and Just a Girl.