Trisha Yearwood explained why she put her career on pause after marrying country music star Garth Brooks.
Trisha Yearwood explained why she put her career on pause after marrying country music star Garth Brooks.
Yearwood chose to focus on her marriage and family, despite her initial success with the 1991 hit, “She’s in Love with the Boy.” Yearwood’s self-titled debut album – which went double platinum – cemented her as one of the leading female country music artists of the 1990s. That all changed for Yearwood in the 2000s.
“When I married Garth and I moved to Oklahoma, I stopped,” Yearwood said at the “In Her Own Words: An Evening with Trisha Yearwood” event, according to People magazine.
“I wasn’t touring 200 days a year anymore,” she explained. “I was a bonus mom to three children, and I was trying to make a marriage work, because I had learned that marriages don’t work if you’re never together.”
She emphasized that being physically present was a deliberate choice to build a strong family life.
“That’s kind of important. You have to be together,” she added. “I made a conscious effort to be there, to go to soccer games and cook dinner.”
Yearwood and Brooks have been married since 2005, and she is a “bonus mom” to his three children: Taylor, August, and Allie, from his marriage to Sandy Mahl.
