Things You Might Not Know About Gwen Stefani

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8. Hair Maintenance

Gwen is famous for her platinum locks and, surprisingly, no one has ever seen her with roots. This is because she follows Marilyn Monroe’s example. “Well, I heard she did hers with a Q-tip every 10 days, so I try to follow Marilyn’s rule,” she told Harper’s Bazaar.

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7. Passive

While many of us might believe that Gwen is an extrovert because of her onstage persona, according to her, she is “passive.” “I was never a rebel,” she said.

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6. Roman Catholic

She was raised in a Roman Catholic household and her parents were rather strict. When Gavin Rossdale proposed to Gwen, he got her father’s permission beforehand.

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5. Dreaming Big…or Not

When she was in high school, she dreamed of being a homemaker like her mother. “All I wanted to ever do was get married and have babies, have a house,” she told the Washington Post.

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4. Her Name

Her parents named her after a stewardess in the 1968 novel Airport. Her middle name, Renee, came from The Four Tops’ 1968 cover of The Left Banke’s 1966 song “Walk Away Renee.”

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3. Learning Disability

Gwen had a lot of difficulty at school because of her dyslexia. “School was just really hard for me. I didn’t want to fail. I wanted to be smart! But I was really dreaming, like drawing my boyfriend’s name on my notebooks. It was such a disaster. It’s so sad! It makes me sad when I think about it. I still have nightmares about tests,” she told Elle.

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2. Few Boyfriends

She’s only dated three guys in her entire ife: Tony Kanal, her bandmate from No Doubt; Gavin Rossdale, her former husband; and now Blake Shelton.

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1. Red Lips

She started rocking red lips in high school when her grandmother gave her a crimson lipstick. “I remember sitting in my ghetto, beat-up Honda Prelude and putting on that lipstick in the rearview mirror and being like, ‘Uh-huh, I like that. That’s the sh-t right there.’ I never stopped after that,” she said.

Cate

Cate has a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature and has been the Managing Editor of Fame10 for more than 6 years. Despite having a love for the works of Thomas Hardy, Leo Tolstoy and Lord Byron, she also has an intense fascination with pop culture. When she isn’t writing for Fame10, she’s planning her next big adventure in Southeast Asia.