Gabby Barrett is the rare country artist who keeps photos of her kids offline and owns it. There is a good reason why we never see pictures of her three children — it's likely similar to the reasons Brad Paisley, Keith Urban, Luke Combs and more have done the same to protect their kids' privacy.

Usually fans don't get such a clean explanation.

Perhaps most private is Miranda Lambert. Yep, we said Miranda Lambert, because her husband Brendan has a son who was born just before the couple were married. Little man is going on five years old now, but even paparazzi have struck out trying to get a look at Landon's boyish cheeks.

Related: Country Stars With Famous Family Members

A few defensive stars have relaxed in recent years: Carrie Underwood and Sam Hunt make this list, but both have been a bit more open to allowing fans to see how cute their kids are. That's certainly a hard decision for a celebrity parent — on one hand you're proud, but on the other hand, the last thing you want is for a critical comment (Twitter is truly awful) to get back to your kid.

Maren Morris experienced this in 2020 when she says mom-shaming convinced her to never post pictures of young Hayes online again. A few months later followers got a photo of her with then-husband Ryan Hurd and their child with his face blurred out.

You will find a few pictures of artists' kids below, but not many. We've also linked to a couple of Instagram pictures that offer a peek into the artists' home lives.

Billy Dukes is a Senior Editor and Executive Producer of Video Content at Taste of Country. He specializes in country music interviews, trend analysis and the Secret History of Country Music. Additionally, Billy covers Yellowstone, 1923 and related television shows through the Dutton Rules podcast. To date, he's written more than 13,000 articles for Taste of Country and produced over 3,000 videos for the Taste of Country YouTube channel.

13 Country Stars Whose Kids We Never See

For every country artist that invites the world to see their kids, there is one who would rather you focus on the back of his head. These 13 country artists are quietly (or in one case, not) private when it comes to their kids. That means very few pictures and short responses if asked about them.

Gallery Credit: Billy Dukes

See Country Stars' Kids, Then + Now

They grow up so fast! See how the children of Luke Bryan, Kenny Rogers, Loretta Lynn and more have grown over the years.

Gallery Credit: Carena Liptak

More From WKDQ-FM