Gwen Stefani And Blake Shelton Talk Tabloids, Paparazzi, Kids, And ‘Weird’ Engagement Rumors

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have become big tabloid darlings, but they can usually just laugh off the rumors about their love life or ignore the swarm of photographers that follow them around whenever they’re in a public place. However, because kids are part of the picture, it can be hard for the stars to keep their composure.

During a radio interview with HOT 99.5 radio host Toby Knapp, Gwen Stefani was asked how she deals with the pack of paparazzi that hounds her when she takes her sons — Kingston, 10; Zuma, 7; and Apollo, 2 — to the park to play. According to Gwen, she’s usually pretty relaxed whenever the cameras are around. She simply sees it as one of the very few downsides to being an extremely successful celebrity.

“You just kind of accept that that’s part of it,” Gwen said. “It’s just a small part of my life… It’s fine. I don’t really feel like I have anything to hide.”

However, Gwen did admit that she will confront the paparazzi and go all “mama bear” on them if they pester her kids too much.

“With the kids, it does take it to another level,” she said. “If I’m really being mama bear, I’ll say something like, ‘Okay, you’ve got to let these boys play right now. Get away from them!”

However, as long as the photographers aren’t harassing her kids, Gwen Stefani is very happy with her life in the spotlight.

“I don’t have a lot to complain about,” Gwen said. “I’m so blessed.”

Gwen also said that she’s looking forward to bringing the boys with her when she begins her This Is What the Truth Feels Like tour next month. There’s no word on whether Blake Shelton will be joining them at some of their stops, but he’s already spent quite a bit of time around Gwen’s boys. As the Inquisitr previously reported, Kingston recently celebrated his 10th birthday at Blake’s home in Oklahoma.

Speaking of Blake Shelton, he’s also pretty chill when it comes to the paparazzi. In fact, the country singer can get downright playful whenever they’re around. As Entertainment Tonight reports, he delighted the photogs by pushing around a stroller with a fake baby in it last summer. Blake had just announced that he and Miranda Lambert were getting a divorce, and he knew that the paparazzi would be following him.

Blake Shelton probably had no inkling that rumors of a Blake baby would start circulating all over the internet just a few months later. On April Fools’ Day, Gwen Stefani poked fun at the persistent reports claiming that she was pregnant with Blake’s baby by sharing a photo of an ultrasound and telling her fans that she was expecting a baby girl. And in her “Make Me Like You” music video, Gwen also lampoons the tabloid reports about the status of her womb by holding up a magazine with a cover that reads, “Gwen Pregnant With Alien Baby!”

Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton have also inspired some rather bizarre engagement rumors. As the Inquisitr previously reported, one tabloid claimed that Blake proposed to Gwen by presenting her with an engagement ring in a bucket of KFC chicken. As People reports, Gwen recently denied that she and Blake plan on tying the knot anytime soon, and she revealed that she finds a lot of the stories about their make-believe engagement downright “weird.”

“Can you imagine the amount of gossip-y, weird stories people make up?” Gwen said during an interview on 94.7 Fresh FM’s The Tommy Show. She revealed that she and Blake are taking it slow, and she said that she definitely won’t be rocking an engagement ring during her upcoming tour.

“Let’s just take it one day at a time,” Stefani said. “Everything’s crazy right now so no, absolutely not.”

Gwen might be able to laugh off rumors about rings and nonexistent babies, but Blake Shelton wasn’t smiling when In Touch Weekly published a story claiming that he went to rehab and cheated on Miranda Lambert with multiple women. According to TMZ, he’s suing In Touch for $2 million.

During a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Blake Shelton explained why he decided to take action against the tabloid.

“With the lawsuit that I have going on right now, I’m not backing off of it. Because with that level of a lie, I don’t want one kid to walk by that magazine rack and see that and have it affect who I am in their mind.”

Perhaps Blake Shelton had Gwen Stefani’s sons in mind when he made that comment about not wanting kids to think that he’s a bad person. What do you think?

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