Miranda Lambert’s Steamy Pics in Celebration of 4th Wedding Anniversary
It all comes out in the wash, indeed.
When Miranda Lambert headed over to Good Morning America’s New York studio to promote the Pistol Annies album, Interstate Gospel, on November 2, 2018, she figured it would be a pretty routine promotional appearance: Sound check, hair and makeup, perform with bandmates Ashley Monroe and Angaleena Presley, leave.
And all of that happened. But Lambert also met a cute cop who was on security detail that day, thanks to a little impromptu matchmaking within her inner circle.
“My girlfriends, the Annies, saw him and knew I might be ready to hang out with someone,” Lambert told the New York Times a year later of how she and husband Brendan McLoughlin first got together. “They invited him to our show behind my back. They plucked him for me. My security guy Tom, he was in on it too. He said to me, ‘He’s here. And he’s pretty.’
Lambert added, “Now the Pistol Annies have three husbands, two ex-husbands, three children, a stepson and 23 animals. We’ve done a lot in nine years!”
Add to that a pile of accolades, including Lambert’s 2023 People’s Choice Country and CMA Awards nominations, and the math continues to look most promising.
“It’s like some kinda Hallmark movie or something,” the 40-year-old told CBS News in 2022. “Like, this redneck from Texas meets this, like, beautiful NYPD officer on the street in New York. But it actually happened that way.”
And of course, she didn’t have designs on settling down so soon when she met McLoughlin, another round of relationship drama barely behind her at the time. But it didn’t take long for the country music superstar to determine that he was the guy for her.
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“When I turned 30, I started to take life in a new direction and really start to understand myself a little better,” Lambert reflected to People in 2022. “And going through hard things obviously makes you get to know yourself better. When you get broken down pretty good, you look at the mirror and you go, ‘I have to spend some time with me, learn who I am and what I want.’ I got to a really good place with myself. Then I met my husband.”
They married in Davidson County, Tenn., on January 26, 2019, keeping their honeymoon period to themselves until Lambert revealed on February 16 that she’d gotten hitched, her Instagram announcement introducing the “love of my life” to the world just as they were photographed together out and about in New York. (Lambert was sporting a diamond on that finger, so there would have been questions.)
At some point between “I’m Miranda” and “I do,” the three-time Grammy winner made her mother’s famous meatloaf recipe for McLoughlin,