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Thomas Rhett Thanks His ‘Angel’ For Taking Care Of Him

Thomas Rhett hasn’t been feeling very well over the past week. And as he shared on Instagram in a sweet video, his wife Lauren came to the rescue giving up…

Thomas Rhett Thanks His 'Angel' For Taking Care Of Him
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Thomas Rhett hasn't been feeling very well over the past week. And as he shared on Instagram in a sweet video, his wife Lauren came to the rescue giving up her own plans to take care of him.

Thomas posted the video on Instagram thanking her, saying, "I just wanted to hop on here and give a huge shoutout to my beautiful wife. I got really sick this week; stomach virus, I guess, is going around, and it freakin' waxed me and my wife had a beach trip planned the day that I got sick, and she canceled that trip and stayed here and absolutely took care of me and our four kids like she was a superhero." He added, "I never met Jesus in person, but what I witnessed these last few days was the patience of Jesus exhibited through a human being and that human being, being my wife. She is an angel, like legit."

Rhett closed with, "Anyway, I love you, babe, thank you for taking such good care of me and our family. You are incredible."

Many fans responded to the post, including one who wrote, "Awh bless ya man! You and Lauren are literal goals." Another fan commented, "You know what the best part of this was? That you recognized it and told her. Keep it up! L O V E." One more fan said, "Y'all are the most beautiful couple, and I adore your love. Absolute angels and kind humans all around."

Thomas recently performed with pop star Katy Perry at the CMA Awards, where they sang their duet "What We Started." As we reported in October, he did not think that Perry would do the duet with him. "I honestly didn't think that Katy was going to do anything with it, much less like it. And I remember the next day Allison said, 'Katy's in.' And I was like, 'This is nuts.' And she called me on the phone, and I was walkin' in my kitchen. I remember my wife was in there, and the kids were in there. I was like, 'No big deal; I'm just talkin' to Katy Perry about something. I'll be done in a minute.' And it was so surreal talking to someone who, I don't know, when I was like 16, 17 years old, Katy's music was everybody's anthem, everybody's jam, and everybody's got a favorite Katy Perry song."

Thomas Rhett and his wife Lauren have four daughters who are all under kindergarten age, and according to Thomas, the couple is going to hit "pause" on having more kids for now.

He told CMT recently, “I think Lauren and I were really honest with each other and were like, ’Let’s take a pause for four or five years and kind of get the hang of what this is going to look like.'”

Rhett did say that the couple's oldest daughter Willie Gray, who is six and was adopted, talks about adoption all the time. He offered, “Adoption is 100 percent on our brains in the next four to five years. We would love to do that. It’s been put on our hearts very heavily to do that again; we just don’t know when.”

Thomas also said not too long ago that he wants a big family, but added, “We’ll see what happens.”

We take a look at the many red carpet photos the couple has taken over the years and note how many of them show a pregnant Lauren.

2013 ACM Awards

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Thomas Rhett (R) and Lauren Akins arrive at the 48th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on April 7, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2017 CMT Music Awards - Arrivals

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Thomas Rhett and wife Lauren Akins attend the 2017 CMT Music Awards at the Music City Center on June 7, 2017 in Nashville, Tennessee.


2016 CMT Music Awards - Arrivals

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Thomas Rhett and wife Lauren Gregory attends the 2016 CMT Music awards at the Bridgestone Arena on June 8, 2016 in Nashville, Tennessee.


2016 Billboard Music Awards - Arrivals

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Thomas Rhett (L) and Lauren Gregory Akins attend the 2016 Billboard Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena on May 22, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada.


2019 American Music Awards - Red Carpet

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Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins attend the 2019 American Music Awards at Microsoft Theater on November 24, 2019 in Los Angeles, California.


2018 Roc Nation THE BRUNCH - Red Carpet

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Lauren Akins and Thomas Rhett attend Roc Nation THE BRUNCH at One World Observatory on January 27, 2018 in New York City.


2019 CMT Artists of the Year - Arrivals

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Honoree Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins attend the 2019 CMT Artists of the Year at Schermerhorn Symphony Center on October 16, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.


The 54th Annual CMA Awards - Arrivals

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Thomas Rhett and Lauren Akins attend the 54th annual CMA Awards at the Music City Center on November 11, 2020 in Nashville, Tennessee.


60th Annual GRAMMY Awards - Arrivals

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Lauren Akins (L) and reecording artist Thomas Rhett attend the 60th Annual GRAMMY Awards at Madison Square Garden on January 28, 2018 in New York City.


The 53rd Annual CMA Awards - Arrivals

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Willa Gray Akins, Thomas Rhett, Ada James Akins and Lauren Akins attend the 53rd annual CMA Awards at the Music City Center on November 13, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee.