Blake Shelton Gifted Gwen Stefani’s Son a Family Heirloom
When Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani began dating, he started working on building a relationship with her children. Stefani shares three sons with her ex-husband, Gavin Rossdale, and Shelton has been eager to step into a stepparent role. When Stefani’s son Zuma turned 17, Shelton gifted him something that once belonged to his father.
Blake Shelton gave Gwen Stefani’s son a gift that his father used to own
Like Stefani and Shelton, Zuma is interested in being a musician. Shelton has supported him in this. He also gave him a meaningful gift for his birthday. Zuma wanted a truck on Shelton’s family ranch for years. It belonged to Shelton’s late father.
“At the ranch, there was an old truck that was Blake’s dad’s,” Stefani said on The Jennifer Hudson Show. “And his dad has passed, but it was sitting there, no dashboard, rusted apart…[Zuma’s] been begging for that truck for like, years.”
Shelton fixed up the truck and gifted it to him.
“He ended up getting the truck last year,” Stefani said. “Blake gave it to him, put a dashboard in.”
Zuma nodded to Shelton’s father in the name he gave the truck.
“He called the truck Dorothy, which is Blake’s mom’s name.”
Blake Shelton spoke about stepparenting Gwen Stefani’s children
Shelton does not have biological children, so he is stepping into a parent role for the first time with Stefani’s kids. He said being a stepparent has changed his perspective on himself.
“They’ve taught me something about myself that I never knew: I’m more than just a country singer or a goofy guy,” he told People. “I’m someone they actually lean on, and that’s not a responsibility that I ever had and not something that I ever considered even being into.”
Shelton added that being a stepparent has taught him to put another person first.
“It’s a different kind of self-worth,” he said. “Maybe it’s the opposite of self-worth because you put yourself way down on the rung, and they move up ahead of you.”
He stepped away from ‘The Voice’ to spend time with his family
In 2023, Shelton left The Voice after 23 seasons. He said this had everything to do with Stefani’s children.
“I think being a stepdad has changed my perspective in that I’m not the first person that I think about anymore,” he told Access Hollywood. “Even to the small little things when you go, ‘I think I’ll do this,’ the very next thought is always, ‘Well, wait a minute. How’s that going to work?’ Or, ‘What will they think?’ Or, ‘How will that affect a schedule?’”
In order to be a coach on The Voice, Shelton said he had to dedicate a great deal of his time to the job. He wanted more balance in his life.
“There’s no way around it,” he said. “If you’re going to do it and do it right, you have to be 150 percent in. And I just feel like those days are behind me for now. I got a more important job.”
