Monday January 8, 2007
We’ve always been big subscribers of The Gwen. Throughout the whole "Hollaback" phase, Stefani never mailed in any of her performances, always gamely pulling on that majorette outfit and high-kicking her way through every talk show appearance (although her posse of backup midriffs, the Harajuku girls, always felt a little wrong somehow, are we right?).
And, as she noted in "Hollaback Girl," she’ll tell it to your face. In the February issue of Elle, rock n’ roll’s Jean Harlow gives it to you straight, admitting that her marriage to rocker Gavin Rossdale, 41, isn’t perfect, pregnancy sort of sucked, and that she’s a Xerox of Madonna.
On Madonna:
“It’s weird that we have all these similarities. Madonna’s had us over to dinner and stuff. She’s always been very nice to me…I remember telling Madonna I was going to do an 80s dance record and she rolled her eyes, because I think when you’ve lived through it like she did, she’s like ‘Whatever.’ But a lot of my influence came from her early work, like directly, like a Xerox.”
On her middle class upbringing:
“The hotel maid walked by today, and she’s really pretty and she probably comes from Poland. And here I am about to spend a lot of money on room service and I was thinking, I could have been a maid.”
On what her fans say:
“People always say the same things. That I’m smaller than they expected and that I look better in real life. Which is kind of a back-handed compliment.”
On her marriage:
“I mean, of course me and Gavin have problems, sometimes. Everyone does. We’ve been together for over 10 years. This is, like, the real deal.”
On 8-month-old son Kingston:
“He’s pretty rad…Kingston is so chill. He goes with me everywhere, ’cause I’m still nursing. He’s been to every studio in L.A., New York, London. He lives up to his name – total Rasta boy. He gives me real balance. You can go 100 miles an hour, but you have to stop to hang out with him.”
On her difficult pregnancy:
“I thought I was going to be one of those Mother Nature girls. I figured, I’ll just squeeze it out, ’cause I’m really strong and I work out and stuff.
[However] I would be seriously crying before I went onstage. I didn’t know how I was going to get through the tour, putting on nine costume changes on a stage in front of 12,000 people every night. And I didn’t want people to know [I was pregnant]. I didn’t want it to become the Gwen Circus Freak Show – ‘Watch it grow onstage.’”
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Posted by Noelle Hancock at 2:25 pm ET
