<p id=”par-1_61″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/gwen-stefani/?swcfpc=1″>Gwen Stefani</a> and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/blake-shelton/?swcfpc=1″>Blake Shelton</a> have been together for close to a decade. The couple met on <em>The Voice</em> and began a relationship as they were both reeling from their respective divorces. In her latest album, Stefani wrote a song about the way Shelton makes her feel. She said she began to feel the most confident in herself during their relationship.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-gwen-stefani-said-she-felt-prettiest-after-beginning-her-relationship-with-blake-shelton”>Gwen Stefani said she felt ‘prettiest’ after beginning her relationship with Blake Shelton</h2>
<p id=”par-2_34″>In 2024, Stefani released the song “Pretty” on <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/gwen-stefani-not-mention-blake-sheltons-valentines-day-gift-year-elaborate-bouquet-2023.html/”>her album <em>Bouquet</em></a>. She said the issue of being pretty has been on her mind since middle school. This feeling inspired her to write the song.</p>
<p id=”par-3_65″>“There’s a song on the record called ‘Pretty,’ and I was thinking about it, and I was looking back in my life, like the photos, like physical and inner beauty of myself,” she said on <em>The Drew Barrymore Show</em> (per <a href=”https://www.nbc.com/nbc-insider/gwen-stefani-says-blake-shelton-makes-her-feel-prettiest” target=”_blank” rel=”noreferrer noopener”>NBC</a>). “And I was thinking about eighth grade; I’m like staring in the mirror in the gym, right? Like, by myself, going, ‘Am I cute…?’”</p>
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<p id=”par-4_19″>She said that when she reflected on her life, she felt the most beautiful during her relationship with Shelton.</p>
<p id=”par-5_63″>“‘Where am I the prettiest? When do I like myself the most?’” Stefani asked herself. “And it was right when Blake started loving me, and I wanted to write a song about that. Because when you actually feel love for the first time, you can. They reflect you; you can see yourself in them. And I wanted to write a song about that.”</p>
<p id=”par-6_44″>In the song’s chorus, she sings, “I, I-I-I-I, I never felt pretty ’til you loved me / I always felt pretty, pretty, pretty unlucky / I, I-I-I-I, I never felt pretty ’til you loved me / And now I feel pretty, pretty, pretty lucky.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-she-said-their-relationship-was-a-miracle”>She said their relationship was a miracle</h2>
<p id=”par-7_27″>Stefani and Shelton bonded over their divorces, and their relationship soon turned romantic. Stefani admitted this alarmed her, and she tried to <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/gwen-stefani-told-blake-shelton-stop-texting-started-dating-happening.html/”>put a stop to it</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-8_64″>“We had just met, and it was chaos. Both of our lives were in complete turmoil, all over the ground. Nothing could save us at that point,” Stefani told <a target=”_blank” href=”https://people.com/gwen-stefani-recalls-chaos-early-days-dating-blake-shelton-not-happening-8751595″ rel=”noreferrer noopener”>People</a>. “There was a point where I was like, ‘I can’t even talk to you. This is insane. I already have enough problems. This is not happening anymore. We’re not going to text or nothing.’”</p>
<p id=”par-9_38″>Ultimately, though, he won her over when he asked her to work on a song with him. Stefani said that she is glad he did. It feels to her that his presence in her life is a miracle.</p>
<p id=”par-10_66″>“Something that I wanted since I was a little girl is to be married and have this love that I saw my parents have and have babies,” she said. “That dream was completely ruined; it was crushed, and I had to figure out how I was going to move forward and make a new dream, and <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/blake-shelton-said-relationship-gwen-stefani-sense-god.html/”>God putting Blake in my life</a> was just that miracle.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-blake-shelton-posted-a-sweet-tribute-to-gwen-stefani-on-their-wedding-anniversary”>Blake Shelton posted a sweet tribute to Gwen Stefani on their wedding anniversary</h2>
<p id=”par-11_26″>This July, Stefani and Shelton celebrated four years of marriage. In honor of their anniversary, Shelton posted a picture of them kissing on their wedding day.</p>
<p id=”par-12_27″>“My pretty girl… I’m the luckiest man to be married to you and to know you,” he wrote on Instagram. “I love you [Gwen Stefani]!!!!!! Happy anniversary!!!!”</p>
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<p id=”par-13_15″>Stefani also made a post noting that she thanked God for her relationship every day.</p>