Gwen Stefani is getting actual about her motherhood journey.
In an interview with Nylon Magazine, the “Hollaback Girl” crooner opened up about her battle with insecurities after giving start to her first two sons back-to-back, how her postpartum struggles impacted her profession, and why the start of her third son was “the start of [a series] of miracles” to return.
“Things change when you have two babies,” mentioned Stafani, who welcomed son Kingston in 2006 and son Zuma in 2008 with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. “There was nothing left in me. I had no ideas. I had so much insecurity. I felt like – ‘Help!’”
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Gwen Stefani says she had “so much insecurity” after having her first two kids again to again. (Christopher Polk/Selection by way of Getty Pictures)
On the time, No Doubt had simply wrapped up their “Sweet Escape” tour and had been spending hours within the studio engaged on their subsequent album, “Push and Shove.” The concept of balancing work and motherhood weighed closely on the Grammy Award winner.
“I would be leaving my family. And if I didn’t come home with a song, I’d be like, ‘Oh my God, I’m such a loser – I didn’t have dinner with my family, and I didn’t write a song. I wasted an entire day of my life trying to be in No Doubt again,'” she recalled.
“I look at it now and think, ‘God, what was I doing trying to please everybody?’ Because really, I should have just been with my family. But we did it, and there are some good songs . . . . Don’t remind me. I don’t want to talk about it.”
In 2014, Stefani gave start to her third son, Apollo.
Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani had been married in the summertime of 2021. (Trae Patton/NBC)
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“I went from a difficult time in my life to giving birth to Apollo,” she mentioned. “Getting pregnant with him was really the start of [a series] of miracles. It was almost like a restart to my life – the second chapter.”
No Doubt, who shall be performing collectively for the primary time in almost a decade at Coachella this 12 months, known as it quits in 2015. One 12 months later, Stefani and Rossdale received divorced, and the “Don’t Speak” singer started courting fellow “The Voice” coach Blake Shelton.
Blake Shelton is stepfather to Gwen Stefani’s three sons. (Photograph by Frazer Harrison/Getty Pictures)
“Most things have surprised me in life,” she instructed Nylon. “One of the things I’ve learned is to be present in the moment and try to absorb what’s happening around me instead of looking ahead.”
Since their nuptials, the duo, who tied the knot in 2021, have been on the heart of split rumors.
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“When you’re in love and have truly aligned values, nobody can get to us,” she mentioned. “You can say whatever you want to say about our relationship – I mean, a week ago we were getting divorced again or something. It’s just lies. The truth is the truth, and we know what that is. And so that [negativity] would never penetrate just by me being vulnerable and sharing a song that I didn’t write for anybody else but myself and Blake.”
Gwen Stefani shares three sons with ex-husband Gavin Rossdale. (Photograph by Frazer Harrison/Getty Pictures)
On the finish of the day, Stefani mentioned she’s studying tips on how to steadiness work and residential life however at all times finds herself leaning on the factor that is been most fixed in her life: music.
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“I told this to Blake the other day: ‘You don’t understand – to be a mom and a wife and then write a record?’ Everybody might be like, ‘Why did it take so long?’ Well, OK, I want to see you try to find five seconds to get creative. It’s so hard to squeeze it into the life that I have. And that’s why I think it’s more special than ever. It’s like when someone says, ‘Oh my God, I got to get my hair colored’ or ‘I got to take a bath today’ after just having a baby. That’s what it’s like for me to do music. It’s that selfish – and special.”
