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" Cosmo: Is No Doubt officially splitting up? Gwen: I thought it would be a good publicity stunt to say that we broke up, but really we&amp;#039;re not. We decide after our album Rock Steady that we were going to take some time apart to pursue other projects. And I really wanted to do a movie. C: You landed the role of Jean Harlow in the upcoming The Aviator. What is your part like? G: IT&amp;#039;S very small. I was only shooting for four or five days, so I&amp;#039;ll barely be onscreen for two minutes, which is so hilarious, because they&amp;#039;re making it sound like I&amp;#039;m the star of the movie. C: Do you want to keep acting? G: I&amp;#039;ve been trying to do films for years. So I&amp;#039;ve decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime. I&amp;#039;m calling it a side project because I don&amp;#039;t want people tot think I&amp;#039;m leaving the band. C: What&amp;#039;s your new solo CD going to be like? G: It&amp;#039;s going to be a fun &amp;#039;80s-inspired retro dance album. C: How&amp;#039;s it coming so far? G: It&amp;#039;s been hard to focus. Coming off the tour and having my first year of being married. I&amp;#039;m kind of lazy. I like to lie around with my husband and watch TV and stuff like that. It takes a lot of selfish time to make music. That&amp;#039;s the reason why the band&amp;#039;s been successful all these years\u2014that&amp;#039;s all we ever did. C: Wasn&amp;#039;t that tough on the band members&amp;#039; relationships? G:All of our girlfriends and boyfriends were always secondary. Tony [the bass player] was my boyfriend for eight years, so that made it easy. Then I met Gavin, and we were both constantly on tour for the last seven years. Gavin and I would only spend like five weeks together at one time in all the years that we went out. It was really hard, but when we&amp;#039;re apart, we get more work done. C: You were the only girl in an all guy band for 17 years. Are you more of a guy&amp;#039;s girl, or do you have a girlie side to you? G: I&amp;#039;m totally a girlie girl. But I definitely can hang out with the guys in the band because we have music in common. They&amp;#039;re like my brothers. C: Was it ever hard though, especially with all the groupies and screaming girls? G: The thing is, they&amp;#039;re not just guys, they&amp;#039;re guys in a band that tons of really cute girls come to see on tour. There have been times when I had to put my foot down and say &amp;quot;You know what? I don&amp;#039;t want to be part of this. This is digusiting,&amp;quot; or whatever. The girls backstage and all that stuff\u2014it can get out of control sometimes. C: What&amp;#039;s it like to be on tour for a year? G: Reality becomes totally skewed, but it&amp;#039;s such an amazing time because you get lost in your own world, and that&amp;#039;s what&amp;#039;s so hard about coming off a tour. All of a sudden you go, Oh my God, I have to have keys. I have to have money in my purse. Someone is not going to do every single thing for me. C: One of the great back stories of No Doubt is that you and Tony remained friends and bandmates after you split. How did you do that? G: I don&amp;#039;t know, but I think it was probably the passion for music. We just loved the band so much, and I guess we knew that it was worth it. But him breaking up with me was the most incredible thng, because before that, I was a very passive person, who was dependent on him for my happiness. I was only 17 when I started seeing him, and I never had any other serious boyfriends before that, so I glamorized the relationship and I was so in love. When he broke up with me, I started writing all these songs, and I found my talent, which was the most empowering thing that has ever happened to me. C: Was it weird for him that you were using the breakp in your songs? G: I think it probably was, but we were always such good friend, and he was happy for me that I was discovering my writing talent. But I&amp;#039;m sure he went through some pan too. And then when I met my husband, it was really hard for him to see me with someone else. C: Do you no use Gavin when you&amp;#039;re writing songs? G: Yeah, I&amp;#039;m definitely inspired by him. He&amp;#039;s the one who get to me and turns on my feelings, and when my feelings are turned on, I can write songs. He&amp;#039;s definitely my muse. C: Are you each other&amp;#039;s biggest fan or worst critic? G: I am totally his biggest fan, but music wise, when we first met, we weren&amp;#039;t into each other&amp;#039;s bands at all. I know he didn&amp;#039;t like No Doubt that much; he liked one song. But he&amp;#039;s grown to like it more. And the rock music he does wasn&amp;#039;t something I was big on. But then I realized how talentd and poetic he is, and he&amp;#039;s such an amazing writer, so now I&amp;#039;m completely a fan of his music. C: Did you legally change your name when you got married? G:Yeah, to Rossdale. I&amp;#039;m traditional, and so is he. We like tradtion here and there. I kept Stefani as my stage name. C: Do you ever struggle to maintain privacy in your relationship? G: I don&amp;#039;t ever feel like I&amp;#039;ve been very secretive about who I am. My songs are basically my diaries. Our relationship is very real, and when we got married, it became even more sacred. But if I start talking about it more, suddenly it&amp;#039;s out there for people to criticize and to have an opinion about, and you know what? No. People don&amp;#039;t get to do that. C: Is it tough for you to deal with critiques? G: I have a heard time reading stuff on my Web site. I&amp;#039;ve actually been considering shutting it down because it&amp;#039;s such a great opportunity for people to bag on you. It feel like the more I&amp;#039;m out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence\u2014that&amp;#039;s what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people. But the criticsm hurts, and it fucks with you. C: It doesn&amp;#039;t seem like you care what people think about what you wear\u2026 G: Ever since I hit puberty, I&amp;#039;ve been really into having my own look. I would buy old men&amp;#039;s pajama bottoms and peg them and wear my monkey boots and my tank tops. I was also really into Hollywood glamour: skinny eyebrows with lots of powder with red-black lips, and tons of mascara. And if you look back, I&amp;#039;ve been doing it since I was 17. C: Why did you decide to start a clothing line? G: My stylist, Andrea, andi were making so many outfits, we decided, Why don&amp;#039;t we do a clothing line together? It&amp;#039;s every girls dream. We were going to do something really small and just sell our stuff at a few boutiques, and then I met this guy who said he wanted to do a clothing line with me and pay for everything. The best part was he said I could do whatever I wanted creatively. I was like, Are you kidding? Okay. C: How did you come to call the line L.A.M.B? G: I had a dog for 16 years, and I called her Lamb because she was like the lamb in &amp;quot;Mary Had a Little Lamb&amp;quot;\u2014she followed me everywhere I went. So then I thought Lamb would be a cool name for my clothing line, because it would be like my dog living on through my clothes. So when we did the bgas with Le Sportsac we decided that L should stand for Love, A for Ange, M for Music, and B for Baby. So there&amp;#039;s a few meanings. C: You are so busy. Do you ever have time to work out? G: I have to work out really, really hard to be as hot as I am. It&amp;#039;s difficult for me. I think I went on my first diet in sixth grade. It&amp;#039;s in my genes to be a be a little bigger and I don&amp;#039;t like that, admittedly. I want girls to know that I work at it\u2014it&amp;#039;s not easy, and it doesn&amp;#039;t come naturally, unfortunately. C: Do you have any bad habits? G: Whenever I go on a diet and get myself incredibly healthy and hot looking, I start to go, Oh, I look cute, let&amp;#039;s have some pizza. And then the whole cycle begins again. C: Are you domestic? G: I&amp;#039;m not, and it&amp;#039;s so embarrassing. I always thought that I was going to be this perfect wife and mom. I fantasized about it for so long, and I&amp;#039;m not very good at cleaning up and doing the homemaker thing. The one thing that makes me feel super lucky about my financial success is that I have a housekeeper. And if that ever got taken away, I would be really, really, really bummed. C: What&amp;#039;s the best perk of being a star? G: You always manage to get super good tables at restaurants. C: Have you ever had a great encounter with a fan? G: I was driving down Hollywood Boulevard one day and I saw this guy wearing an old NO Doubt shirt, so I knew he was a die-hard fan. I rolled down the window, and I yelled to him, &amp;quot;Hey, cool shirt.&amp;quot; He was probably 19. The guy seriously nearly fell over. He totally tripped. It was so cute. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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