Like mom, like son! The Voice star Reba McEntire has shared an lovely image taken of the singer along with her 34-year-old son, displaying simply how a lot her boy takes after his mother.
“I certain really feel so much higher immediately than I did 34 years in the past!” Reba jokingly captioned the image, referencing the hours she was in labor with Shelby, whom she welcomed with ex-husband Narval Blackstock.
“From the primary second I came upon I used to be pregnant, as much as immediately, this youngster is without doubt one of the greatest blessings of my life. Thanks, God, for letting me expertise being a mama. I really like you, Shelby, with all my coronary heart, thoughts and soul.”
As followers flocked to the submit to share their birthday needs with Shelby, Reba’s solely son additionally commented, including a hearty emoji and easily writing; “Love you!!”
“He appears to be like like his Mama. Completely satisfied Birthday,” wrote one fan as one other added: “Completely satisfied Birthday Shelby!! Positively see the resemblance good-looking and exquisite like his mama!!”
“The delivery was a miracle; essentially the most profound non secular expertise I’ve ever had,” Reba wrote of the delivery of Shelby in her autobiography Reba: My Story. “I used to be crying and kissing my child on the identical time.”
“It’s humorous, however as each mom is aware of, what individuals name ‘maternal instincts’ are actual. I knew his cry instinctively,” she recalled. “I’d hear different infants and knew they weren’t Shelby.”
Shelby was born in 1990, a 12 months after her marriage to Narval; they had been collectively for 26 years earlier than they parted methods in 2015. However they’ve remained cordial, and in a candid interview with PEOPLE in 2022, the nation crooner mirrored: “I am very happy with [Shelby]. He is all the time striving to be higher. His daddy did an excellent job too.”
“Shelby is a present from God to me. We’re extremely shut. Earlier than Shelby, I used to be a tad self-centered. However his presence shifted my focus—it grew to become about nurturing, loving, and instructing this glorious life I used to be entrusted with,” she continued.
Sharing particulars of how she raised her son and located time to be a spouse and award-winning singer, Reba mentioned: “I would jet house post-concert, wake Shelby up, take him to highschool, and we might spend high quality time collectively till it was time to hit the street once more. My aim was, and nonetheless is, to be there for Shelby.”
