Faith Hill seemingly has it all.
The powerhouse couple has taken the music industry by storm, and they regularly collaborate together.
Here is the untold truth of Faith Hill that even her biggest fans probably don’t know.
“I have a great family: salt of the earth, hardworking,” she toldBillboard(viaE!
Hill finally found her birth mother, a professional painter, when she was in her 20s.
The experience of meeting someone biologically related to her changed her life.
“The first time I met her I just stared at her,” she toldPeople.
“I’d never seen anybody that looked anything like me.
It was the awe of seeing someone you came from.
It fills something.”
According to her ex-husband, Daniel Hill, finding her birth mother also led to their divorce.
“After that, her world turned upside down,” he said.
“I was part of her old world, and she had to let that world go.”
Faith Hill is very close to her family
Faith Hill and her adoptive family are incredibly close.
Her father, Ted, was a factory worker with a fourth grade education.
Her mom, Edna, was a bank teller.
According toBiography, Hill also has two older brothers.
“They were strong, the hardest-working people I’ve ever known,” Hill toldPeopleof her parents.
“Mom financially stretched a dollar into 10.
That’s impressive.”
Hill said that her childhood was “pretty amazing” and “really stable” onLarry King Live.
Hill started singing in church when she was just 3 or 4 years old.
“I stood up on the pew and sang along,” she toldThe Washington Post.
That was me."
In her teens, Hill joined the Steele Family gospel quartet and toured churches all over the region.
She explained, “They showed their excitement like I wanted to show mine.”
As noted byPeople, there were no survivors.
I wasn’t a great background singer and I didn’t get the part."
Before she fell for McGraw, though, she was engaged to record producer Scott Hendricks.
Hill and McGraw met when she was on tour with him as his opening act in 1996.
While she was in a relationship and McGraw had recently broken off an engagement, sparks flew.
Hill made it clear that she didn’t end things with Hendricks because of McGraw, though.
“It obviously wasn’t a rock-solid situation or it wouldn’t have ended,” she toldPeople.
“There wouldn’t have been someone else who could walk into my life.
Tim is not the reason I left.”
Hill also pushed back against people who gossiped about her supposedly leaving her fiance for another man.
“I wasn’t about to let Tim slip through my hands,” she said.
I have to be happy too."
Fortunately, Hill and McGraw would go on to marry, making Hill one of severalsingers with gorgeous husbands.
Hill said that their marriage “is deeper than most things.”
“It’s not all bliss, but commitment is whatloveis about,” said Hill.
Becoming a mom gave Faith Hill more confidence
Having kids inevitably changes your life.
In an interview withTaste of Country, McGraw talked about what a wonderful mother his wife is.
The country star likes to live an ordinary life when it’s possible.
Her home life is pretty laid back.
“We are not the most exciting people in the world,” she admitted toNew Beauty.
Far more important to Hill than going out is family time.
“I think it’s really tough on her sometimes.”
To her, it’s all about inner beauty and about living your life to the fullest.
“People can see both of those things on your face.”
“A lot of that has to do with time,” she said.
In an interview withRedbook, she was asked if she has an alter ego similar toBeyonce’s Sasha Fierce.
She said that she does, referring to it as “a double life.”
Hill explained that, in her everyday life, she’s just a typical mom.
When it comes time to perform, though, everything is different.
Hill compared the transformation she goes through when performing to “putting on a different persona.”
“Something happens,” she said.
“I need to step back from that everyday Faith and be the dress-up girl.”
Stepping into another character isn’t just about helping Hill perform, though.
Being on stage is also a liberating experience for the singer.
“It’s a matter of getting lost in the music and the moment,” she said.
“It’s like therapy.
It’s a freeing of the soul.”
That doesn’t mean she isn’t always on the lookout for that perfect role, though.
I just related to Arletta."
“I honestly don’t pay attention to it,” she toldNew Beauty.
Part of Hill’s acceptance of growing older is motivated by her kids.
“It’s not a message I want them to have.”
Instead, Hill wants her daughters to see life including getting older as “a blessing.”
Not being afraid of getting older, however, doesn’t mean that Hill isn’t looking after herself.
In 2009, Hill toldRedbookthat she had started a new beauty routine with the focus on being healthy.
Instead, Hill said she became more “conscious of what I put into my body.”
“Sometimes they go way too far,” she toldCMT News.
“I’ve actually asked them to cut back.
The last several things we’ve done, we said, “Don’t do so much.'
Sometimes when it’s so much, it doesn’t even look real.
It looks bad.”
Hill revealed that she started protesting heavy edits after she realized adimplehad been removed from one of her photos.
Even when they’re busy on tour together, they find time to go out on dates.
For the couple, it’s all about the little things.
“For our 20th wedding anniversary, we stayed home, in our pajamas and watched TV.
We loved it.”
“Our personal life and our work together are two very separate things,” Hill toldChatelaine.
