Chris Lane and Lauren Bushnell Lane.Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Chris Lane’s bachelor days are long behind him, yet the country star didn’t always see marriage and fatherhood in his future before meeting his wifeLauren Bushnell Lane.
“I never wanted kids,” Lane revealed in an interview withEntertainment Tonighton Thursday. “I honestly never wanted to get married. None of that.”
The “Ain’t Even Met You Yet” singer, 37, and theBacheloralum, 32, tied the knot in October 2019 and are nowparentsto their 7-month-old son Dutton Walker.
Lane explained that becoming a father to Dutton was “truly the best thing in the world.”
“The day he was born, and I haven’t told anybody this, but I cried my eyes out, because I felt like I was praying, just, ‘Lord, thank you so much for not listening to me for all those years that I said I never wanted that,'” he toldET’s Cassie DiLaura. “I wouldn’t have known what I was missing out on.”
Dutton and Chris Lane.Lauren Lane/Instagram
It was starting a relationship with his wife in 2018 that proved to be a game-changer for Lane and made him thefamily manhe is today.
“You meet somebody that makes you want to change your mindset and then makes you want that,” he said.
Lane, who is currently on his Fill Them Boots tour, revealed that he and his wife are hoping to expand their family in the future.
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“I know Lauren wants a little girl eventually, so I want that for her,” he revealed. “I prayed hard for a little boy, and I have that. So, now I want what she wants.”
After welcoming Dutton last year, Laneopened upto PEOPLE about parenthood.
“Watching Lauren be a mom is my favorite thing in the world,” he said at that time.
source: people.com
