Miranda and Blake - One Anniversary, Four Divorces and Five Sets of Twins

In the three years that Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton have been married, according to the tabloids, they've divorced four times and have had five sets of twins. Since pregnancies last nine months, the math makes the twins downright impossible! (45 months worth of pregnant vs. 36 months of marriage and then you have to factor in the time for the four divorces!)

The superstar power couple celebrated their 3rd anniversary this past Wednesday and couldn't be happier - but you would never know it if you read the tabloids!

In reality, Miranda Lambert seems to have it all ... a happy marriage, a wonderful career, two women's western wear stores and soon, she'll add a bead and breakfast to the list. But with the perks comes the downside -- she lives in the spotlight and is subject to tabloid rumors and speculation.

When she talked with Billboard recently, she talked about living life with paparazzi and her life being tabloid fodder.

"I always heard 'no publicity is bad publicity,' and I don't necessarily agree with that. But, if they're talking about you, it's a good thing, especially if you have a record coming out," she explained. But, she added, "It takes some getting used to."

What she's had to get used to has ranged from expecting a baby to being in the process of a divorce. "None of it's true," she said. "All of a sudden this page turned, and it was like overnight we couldn't go to a restaurant. There's people outside waiting, flashing cameras in our face, and I'm going, 'What just happened?' Nobody told me about this. I thought this was only in the magazines I bought at the airport, and now we're in them!"

Blake seems to have a little easier time dealing with life in the tabloid/photog spotlight. "He just shrugs it off. He doesn't care at all. But girls are more sensitive. I'm like, 'But they're telling lies!' So dramatic. Now, it has actually brought us closer, which is probably the opposite of what they're trying to do. We just laugh about it. I think I've had like five sets of twins in the last two years, and we've been divorced four times, and one of us had a $100 million divorce. We both agreed, 'If one of us has $100 million, one of us is killing the other.' It's craziness."

One of the biggest things for Lambert is when a media outlet presents a picture of her that paints a negative image to her young fans. She understands that being in the spotlight makes her a leader and that is a heavy responsibility. When she lost some weight prior to the Academy of Country Music Awards in April, media all over the place was talking about her weight rather than her talent. She worried that her young fans would think that she was OK'ing unhealthy crash dieting or eating disorders. She explained, "I'm super into giving girls - especially younger girls - a positive body image. I'm just a normal-sized girl, the girl you would probably come over and have a beer with if you lived next door right now, and we'd probably be frying chicken. I don't ever want to stray away from that. A lot of female fans come up to me and say, 'Thanks for being normal. You made me feel OK about my size 8.' Or, 'I threw my scale away today thanks to you. You're so confident in who you are.' So whenever they talk about my weight loss and all this crap, that doesn't define me. I'm so much more than my jean size - it's not even about that."

You have to admire her for taking a "be normal" stance and wanting others to see that instead of a diva.

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Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton