Gwen Stefani for US Elle Magazine July 2009

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Pop and Rock singer and mom Gwen Stefani is on the July 2009 Music Issue of Elle magazine, which is on stands June 15.

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She wears Louis Vuitton on the cover. The shoot was made in April.

The 39-year-old rocker singer tells in the interview about getting back together with her band No Doubt, plus she opens about her challenges with being a mother of two.

She is not only a singer, she is a designer, model and songwriter.

You can see pics from photoshoot here >>

Here are some highlights from interview:

About being a mother:

It’s one thing when you have an infant, but when you have this two-or three-year-old going, ‘Mommy, what’s the deal?’ it’s harder. Kingston’s whole thing is, ‘I need, I need.’ He is insane right now. We’re just hoping for the best and that he’s not going to turn out to be a freak, but we’ll see.”

About celebrity:

Obviously, I’m not anything more than I am. I’m just, like, totally normal. The fact that any of this has happened, that we’re sitting here at the Beverly Hills Hotel just gets me going, like, What?”

About leaving No Doubt:

Everybody’s making it like there’s all this new tension, you know, like I stepped away from the band and now they’re jealous of me, and look, maybe there is a little bit of that.”

About how her priorities changed from band to family:

I wasn’t even married. Now I’m a wife and a mother of two. It’s a really different role. I always referred to No Doubt as a marriage, because that’s what it’s like to be together for so long and go through what we’ve been through. I can’t really have that relationship with them anymore. My priorities are always going to be my husband and my family now. That’s a huge, huge thing.”

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