Gwen Stefani discusses her baby lust with RS
I was reading my Rolling Stone last week and Gwen had a bit to say about how badly she wants a baby. I pulled out some interesting tidbits and quotes:
Gwen admits that her first single, "What You Waiting For?," chronicles her intense baby lust — the "tick-tock" refrain of the chorus, she says, was inspired in part by the sound of her biological clock.
The interviewer says that Gwen’s "desire to have children is a continual theme" in their interview," whether she’s talking about how she never planned on being a pop star–"Before that, all I ever did was, like, look at Tony and pray that God would let me have a baby with him"–or the joy of marrying Gavin Rossdale–"It’s such a beautiful, magical feeling, I can’t explain it. It’s like having a baby. I can imagine what it might be like. But that love I’ve never experienced" –or her plans for the future –"I don’t know what I’m going to do, but I’ve always wanted to do the family thing".
Gwen worries about the conflicts of career and family, although most women don’t have to stress about the demands of dressing as fairy-tale characters in music videos! "At a certain point I’m going to want to have a family," Stefani says, "and I’m not going to have time to be running around the world doing this shit and being greedy the way I have been. I can always write songs. But can I always wear an Alice in Wonderland costume? I probably shouldn’t. I can at home. I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. It would be totally messed up!"
