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I struggle with my weight

She’s gone from high school geek to superstar icon, but Gwen still worries about her bod like the rest of us

Gwendolyn Renee Stefani is so cool we get frostbite just from looking at her, but it hasn’t always been this way for the Californian superstar. So how did the school misfit super-size her street cred? She shares her secrets with bliss…

Have you always been a super-trendy musical genius? We bet you were the popular one at school…
Nooo! I wasn’t a cheerleader or in the choir and I didn’t have loads of friends. I thought I could never influence anyone. My whole room was plastered with Marilyn Monroe posters and I always drew myself as a bride when my teachers asked me to draw myself as a grown-up. Read the rest of this article »

Gwen cuts loose

The reigning queen of rock & roll is flying solo for the first time in her career, and life is pretty sweet. It’s also an emotional roller coaster.

The lobby of New York’s Mercer Hotel is a haven of downtown chic - all angular furniture in shades of eggplant, with oblong over-sized lampshades atop carved wooden posts. A wall lined with bookshelves displays volumes on Toulouse Lautrec, Robert Mapplethorpe and Andy Warhol alongside studies of designers Vivienne Ta, and Salvatore Ferragamo and anthologies on modernist architecture. The place is, as Gwen Stefani puts it, “super-frickin’ trendy cool,” the kind of hotel where everybody pretends not to notice when Nicky Hilton saunters past the reception desk. Read the rest of this article »

The Coronation of Gwen Stefani

Blender joins the No Doubt singer’s court to find out about her solo album, movie career and love life. “Everything you could probably think up is true,” she says.

Gwen Stefani is dancing barefoot in her kitchen. One of the tracks she’s just finished for her first solo album is playing on her laptop, and she spinning around saying “I love this song!” while a small posse of assembled staff looks on: her publicist, her graphic designer and her British manservant Pete, who is juicing a lemon and preparing Stefani her light, fragrant lunch. Read the rest of this article »

The first lady of rock

Glamorous Gwen Stefani has become the ultimate music icon with that rare thing - a good reputation. Now, as Jonathon Van Meter discovers, she’s setting her sights on Hollywood. Photographed by Steven Meisel

Gwen Stefani’s house in Los Feliz has a vaguely spooky quality to it. The unease I feel when I pull up in front may simply be the result of my having watched Sunset Boulevard one too many times. Or perhaps the damp January chill has something to do with it. In any case, when the high gates swing open, I walk up the curving, rain-slicked driveway. I am greeted at the heavy wooden door by Stefani’s assistant, Pete, an affable young English fellow who is a childhood friend of Stefani’s husband, Gavin Rossdale. Read the rest of this article »

Rock Ready

Gwen Stefani blows our minds once again. By Peter Davis, Photographs by Richard Phibbs.

It’s Gwen Stefani’s 33rd birthday, and the scene in No Doubt’s dressing room at an auditorium in downtown Los Angeles is cluttered and chaotic. Stefani’s operatic voice booms from the sound check as she belts out the song “Bathwater.” Five large pizza boxes and cases of Coca Cola, Diet Coke and bottled water are stacked near an enormous bouquet of birthday flowers. Drummer Adrian Young’s wife, Nina, strolls by cuddling their toddler son, who has been dressed in a black jumpsuit with skull-and-crossbones buttons. Techies race back and forth, fueled by venti lattes from Starbucks. Read the rest of this article »

No Doubt About Her

It’s Gwen’s world - we just live in it. How everything this rock rebel touches turns platinum. By Lisa Johnson.

After performing live in the Super Bowl in front of an estimated 100 million screaming fans, Gwen Stefani is no longer “just a girl in the world.” The hard-bodied, platinum blonde has combined grunge and glamour to fashion herself into a trendsetting pop icon of “Madonna” proportions. On the verge of launching her own fashion line, the award-winning singer/songwriter is responsible for three platinum albums and sold-out concert tours the world over. But will the savagely cut Amazon who begins her concerts with perfectly posed push-ups and stalks the stage in boxing boots ever be comfortable in her own flawless skin? Many of the hit songs she writes and sings are full of the same insecurities, longing, jealousy, and pain, that the rest of us mere mortals experience. Perhaps her group’s name, No Doubt, is more of a queston than a declaration. Read the rest of this article »

It’s Gwen’s world we just live in it

Ms. Stefani is already a rock rebel, a girl-power icon, and a style star. Now, Lauren Waterman finds, she’s going for blissed-out bride, fashion designer, and silver-screen queen, too. By Lauren Waterman

Back when Gwen Stefani was just a girl, she never imagined for herself the kind of life she has now. Even though she loved Julie Andrews and Emmylou Harris and was, as she says with a perfectly straight face, “very affected by The Muppet Movie,” she never thought she’d be a performer. “I didn’t think I’d have an impact on anyone,” she says. Read the rest of this article »

Hella Great

With a new baby, an impending wedding and a breakthrough hit single - “Hella Good” - it’s no wonder the members of No Doubt are feeling fine in the summertime. By: Cara Lynn Shultz

The members of No Doubt are screaming for their lives. They’ve been electrocuted, blasted with fire, and now they’re plummeting off the side of a 10-story building. At the last minute they’re whisked to safety by… Spider-Man? That’s right. Singer Gwen Stefani, 32, bassist Tony Kanal, 31, and guitarist Tom Dumont, 34, are spending a rare free afternoon at Universal’s Islands of Adventure in Orlando, cramming eight rides - including the virtual reality Amazing Adventures of Spider-Man - into a 90-minute field trip. (Drummer Adrian Young, 32, is off playing golf.) After going on one stomach-churning roller coaster twice, Tom asks the operator, “Don’t you have any Snow White rides?” Everyone laughs, but he’s got a point - they could use a break. Read the rest of this article »

Gwen is queen of cool!

Anyone who says being a rock star is a boys-only deal can kiss Gwen’s butt. After wowing crowds for 14 years, No Doubt’s outrageous star answers ym readers’ burning questions. By Alyssa Vitrano

What the world needs now is more rockstars. Or, to be precise, more rock stars like Gwen Stefani.

Whether she inspires you to max out your girl-power side or just dye your hair hot pink, Gwen has a knack for pushing people to be a little more fabulous. She’s got all-out energy in performances and amazing personal style - who else could start a bindi craze or get braces just for the fun of it?

“Why do the good girls always want the baaaaaad boys?” she purrs to the audience during her performance of “Bathwater” at the My VH1 Awards show, her tight platinum curls, blazing red lips and belly-baring blue sailor suit popping out in the sea of dancers waving gold pom-poms. After the performance, she hops back to her trailer, which is nestled between Creed’s and the Red Hot Chili Peppers’. A fur-coated Macy Gray stops her after performance to say hi. Read the rest of this article »

Gwen in Doubt

What is it about No Doubt diva Gwen Stefani that makes her one of those “I wish she were my best friend” kind of girls? How about her amazing sense of style, killer voice and real-girl hang-ups? Yeah, she may be “just a girl,” but she’s rock’s reigning queen of real. And with her band’s new album, Return of Saturn, you’re guaranteed to get up and groove once again as Gwen goes off on everything from breakups to makeup. By Alexa Joy Sherman.

As No Doubt’s Gwen Stefani sits in her record label’s offices in LA, finishing off a plate of Chinese food, she dispels a major myth (and, no, it’s not that all girls are on a diet): You can’t take those fortune cookies seriously. “All your financial goals will be reached in 10 years,” she says, smiling as she reads from the slip of paper. The message is a little late, considering No Doubt’s last CD, Tragic Kingdom, sold, oh, about 15 million copies. And as Gwen sits there looking like a thrift-shop princess in a big, corduroy overcoat that’s almost the same color as her slightly faded pink-and-platinum ponytail, she tells us that, although she always wanted to be in a band, she hardly expected to be in one this huge. “I never had any goals that big!” she says. “I just wanted to be able to move out of my parents’ house.” Read the rest of this article »