All About Little Big Town’s Kimberly Schlapman’s Husband and Kids

Little Big Town is more than a band. It’s a family. The supergroup of four, hosted by Little Big Town’s Christmas at the Opry on NBC, have been together through life’s ups and downs, including the personal hardships faced by singer Kimberly Schlapman. Here you can read all about Schlapman’s journey and the happy ending she finally found.

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Kimberly Schlapman grew up in Georgia

Schlapman was born in Cornelia, Georgia in 1969 and moved to Alabama to study, where she met future bandmate Karen Fairchild. The women moved to Nashville together to pursue their singing careers, and Little Big Town was formed in 1998.

Kimberly Schlapman found love again after her first husband died

Her first husband, Steven Roads, died of a heart attack in 2005. Afterward, “I didn’t plan on falling in love at all,” Schlapman told The boot in 2013. “My husband now and I were just really good friends, and after my late husband died, all my friends called me all the time. I was just checking up on me. (Stephen Schlapman) was just an old friend. We had known each other. others for about six years and he started calling me like everyone else did, but he started calling me more than everyone else did.

“I was shocked; I remember when I first realized I had feelings, I was just like, ‘OK, this is so weird. What is this? I haven’t felt this in a long, long time,'” Schlapman added. “But eventually I allowed myself and it’s been the most beautiful gift of my life. It pulled me out of the deepest hole I’ve ever been in and healed me.” The couple married in 2006.

Kimberly Schlapman’s children

“In my previous marriage I had tried so hard to have a baby, so there was already, I won’t say skepticism, but I was already pretty sure that I wouldn’t be able to conceive.” Schlapman revealed to People of her lifelong dream of motherhood. “When we got pregnant on our honeymoon, it was just the most incredible gift. I think my first husband, who was in heaven, I think he asked God, ‘Let’s give her what she always wanted as a wedding present.’ “

Daisy Pearl Schlapman arrived in July 2007 and grew up begging for a sibling. But after a miscarriage, both artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization were unsuccessful, so the Schlapmans looked into adoption. Dolly Grace officially joined the family in 2017.

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“The instant we held her, she was ours. I secretly feared that my love for an adopted child would not be the same for my biological child; I could not understand how that love could feel the same way,” wrote Schlapman in an essay for People. “But I’m telling you, when I held that baby in my arms, there was no difference at all from the child I birthed from my own womb to this child that came from another person’s womb.”

How Schlapmans makes it work

“My husband is amazing. He has given me the foundation to live out my dreams,” she revealed Country Living. “His life kind of revolves around my schedule and everything that happens with me and unfortunately he takes a back seat.”

“His support for me, it’s a bit opposite of what the old social expectations were, where the man goes to work and the mother stays at home. I am the one who runs the business, and it is he who is often Mr. mother and takes care of everything,” she added. “I can’t praise him enough for what he has done for me and our family.” They built theirs “forever home” in South Carolina.

Clock Little Big Town’s Christmas at the Opry on NBC Monday, December 16 at 8 PM ET/PT.