Garth Brooks' Daughters Grew Up To Be Gorgeous

Garth Brooks' daughters grew up about as far away from stardom as can be, despite having celebrity parents. Brooks' youngest daughter told the Children of Song podcast that the girls felt they had a normal childhood compared to other children.

To be sure, Taylor, August, and Allie enjoyed the undivided attention of Brooks for most of their lives, as noted by People. They grew up away from the spotlight with a mix of discipline and fun, and, by their father's example, they were encouraged to put family first.

Brooks told People his daughters were "the greatest joy and the greatest heartache" he'll ever have. Now the Brooks girls are all making their mark and spreading joy to others in their own unique ways. And, as is clear by looking at them and learning of their lives, Garth Brooks' daughters have grown up to be absolutely gorgeous. Here's what you need to know about them.

Garth Brooks took an early retirement from the music industry at the height of his career in 2001 and pretty much started over after his divorce from Sandy Mahl. He made his daughters his ultimate priority. "I just said goodbye to music, got divorced, moved back to Oklahoma and left Nashville," the star told Us Weekly.

Living with all three daughters in a one-bathroom bunkhouse on his ranch, Brooks realized that he didn't actually know that much about them. But the dedicated father was prepared to dig in and find out everything, and there was nothing that could top the experience, he told People. He packed school lunches, supervised chores, and literally became a soccer dad to his three "tomboys" who played soccer and softball and ran track and field.

Brooks would later say on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, "I think if everybody was allowed that luxury [of stopping everything to be with family], I think 99 percent of us parents would take it." Clearly Brooks is one of a few stars who chose family over fame.

Garth Brooks wasn't the only one who made a vow to Trisha Yearwood when the couple wed in 2005. All three of Garth Brooks' daughters also donned white dresses and "wed" Yearwood that day, as he explained on The Kelly Clarkson Show. "They exchanged rings and said vows to each other, because I told them, 'If something happens to me, you've got to take care of the queen; you've got to take care of Miss Yearwood.'"

Brooks asking his daughters to look after his second wife if anything happened to him might have been a tense conversation, but, by the time the lovebirds were ready to get married, it seemed Yearwood had become a natural part of the family. Youngest daughter Allie had a response that was about as casual as could be: "We've got your back, bra strap!"

As Yearwood had no children of her own, the Brooks girls decided the best thing was to marry her, too. And each year, as Yearwood told Rachael Ray, the family still hosts a group anniversary together.

Growing up with their dad home every day, Garth Brooks' daughters couldn't really have had the stereotypical celebrity parent experience. In fact, Brooks spent his time just taking care of his girls and being part of the community. "The dads across the soccer field looked at me as a dad just like them," the famous singer told People. 

Daughter Allie said he didn't sing around the house and stopped attending most events for the duration of the girls' childhoods. So when Brooks gifted her a guitar for her pre-teen birthday, she just "stared at it for a couple of years," she told Children of Song. "Every time my dad would try and teach me, I would scream at him and tell him that he didn't know what he was talking about."

Instead, the girls' life with Brooks was about family first. The girls even all had to share one bedroom! "Every night, man, they hate it," Brooks laughed on The View. "And every night you hear them in there and they're cackling and laughing." Despite wealth and notoriety, his basic rules helped keep them humble.

"I think especially for girls and women it's a real confidence builder," said Trisha Yearwood to Taste of Country. Garth Brooks and Yearwood have a history of working with Habitat for Humanity, but the couple made hands-on homebuilding a fun family activity in October 2019. Two of Garth Brooks' daughters, Taylor and Allie (via Country Fancast), took an active role in the Habitat for Humanity Carter Work Project.

While the girls hadn't been old enough to work on previous Habitat for Humanity builds, Brooks told Taste of Country that they had prepared for the work, getting their feet wet with not-so-small construction projects on the family property. He taught them to bend rebar, transport concrete, and even construct a bridge! "They come out here now and they just pick up hammers and go to work," Brooks beamed, taking pride in the girls giving back and working with their hands.

It had to have felt good for the young ladies to make such a difference with family by their side. "We built with love and we are so proud," Allie said on Instagram. "Thank you @habitatforhumanity for an experience I will feel in my heart (and my body) for a long, long time."

There is little information known about Garth Brooks' daughter Taylor Mayne Pearl Brooks as she is a private person, but her father did share in his A&E documentary that his firstborn "is quiet courage" and "will trade her life for someone she doesn't know."

That selflessness may have contributed to her decision to attend school at Nashville's Vanderbilt University after graduating from Oklahoma State. She studied history at Oklahoma from 2010 to 2016, according to Country Fancast, and her sister August's Facebook page announced that she graduated with a Masters Degree in Theology from Vanderbilt on May 18, 2020.

With Taylor all grown up and chasing her own dreams, we expect her graduate school studies made her father proud as he was instrumental in forming her early faith. "You can introduce them to the Lord, teach them manners, teach them to believe in themselves, but the truth is, they're going to be who they're going to be," he told People.

Committing to family first and halting everything to raise his girls was "the greatest thing that ever happened" to Garth Brooks, as he told The View. And we're sure he hopes his daughters feel the same way. He told Closer Weekly that he was completely in love with his daughters to the point that he "worshipped" them. "They can see it in my face when they see me or surprise me somewhere," said the star, who admitted his daughters had him "wrapped."

Now that the girls are older and have gone off to college and have started to build their own families, we're sure Brooks and his girls look forward to shared times, though he admitted to Entertainment Tonight that getting them all together only happens now about three days a year. "Father's Day, my birthday, and Christmas" are just about the only days that the whole family comes together "around one table" anymore, he lamented.

It's probably because Garth Brooks' daughters tend to live private lives, but the country music star likely wasn't the only one surprised to see his ex-wife and all three girls speaking out about his life and career in a two-night A&E special Garth Brooks: The Road I'm On. The special featured exclusive dialogues with country music colleagues and the people closest to the star — his family.

"The blessing is they're going to get to the truth. The curse is they're going to get to the truth," Brooks told Fox News. He said it was interesting to get his daughters' perspectives, and he learned a lot, though he didn't know the girls were being interviewed and "never thought they ever would" sit down in front of the camera.

For his part, documentary director Al Syzmanski said he came away from the project with a new level of respect for Brooks, but it sounds like he was equally as impressed with the Brooks girls. He told Multichannel News, "They are un-frickin-believable." We think so, too.