{"id":2436069,"date":"2026-05-28T22:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2436069"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:02:11","slug":"inside-adrienne-bailon-and-israel-houghtons-faithful-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/inside-adrienne-bailon-and-israel-houghtons-faithful-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Adrienne Bailon and Israel Houghton\u2019s Faithful Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Adrienne Bailon<\/span><\/a><\/strong> reflects on her love story with husband Israel Houghton<\/strong>, faith is at the foundation of their relationship.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love that saying, \u2018A couple that prays together, stays together,\u2019 but bigger than that, I think it\u2019s holding ourselves accountable to someone bigger than each other,\u201d Bailon, 42, exclusively shared with Us Weekly<\/i>. \u201cI\u2019m not just kind to my husband because he\u2019s a nice guy. No, I give him grace. I try to give him the grace that God gives me. I think that believing in something great or bigger than us has really helped us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailon and Houghton, 55, were close pals before they turned their friendship into something more.<\/p>\n

When asked if faith was always an important trait in a potential partner, Bailon said that it \u201cdefinitely was a priority that I did not keep a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cAlthough I always wanted that. I don\u2019t think I ever had that until my husband,\u201d she shared. \u201cTo have that, I think, just made the world of a difference. I think that there\u2019s something really beautiful about being able to find hope together, especially in all the things that we\u2019ve been through, including infertility and having someone who just constantly was there. Lifting me up in that way really meant so much to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Married since November 2016<\/a>, Bailon and Houghton are raising their son, Ever James, whom they welcomed via surrogate<\/span><\/a> in August 2022. Although their only child is 3 years old, both mom and dad are trying to share thoughtful glimpses of their faith with their growing boy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think our biggest thing was teaching him faith vs. fear, having someone that believed in God on a faith-based, not a fear-based situation where it\u2019s like, \u2018Well, God is going to punish you if you don\u2019t do this. God doesn\u2019t like it when you do that,\u2019 Bailon explained. \u201cInstead, we\u2019re teaching him that he has the greatest champion in heaven who\u2019s cheering him on, who wants great things for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

She continued, \u201cHe\u2019s madly in love with us, and He loves us, and He\u2019s rooting for us, and that we pray to Him. Even just as a young kid, he tells me about all the great superheroes that he loves. And I\u2019m like, \u2018But you know the greatest superhero? Jesus.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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