gwen stefani

October is a big month for No Doubt frontwoman Gwen Stefani. She’ll turn 43 on Oct. 3 and she’ll be hot on the heels of the release of ‘Push and Shove,’ No Doubt’s first album in over a decade. She has the blues on the cover of the October issue of ELLE U.K., but that’s just the color motif. Stefani is anything but blue.

Gwen Stefani has made no secret of the fact that while she had fun being a ‘Hollaback Girl’ and releasing two successful solo albums while No Doubt were on an extended break, she didn’t prefer being without her boys in her band. She’s gone on record to say that her solo career will remain in the rear view, and now, she’s compared that period of her professional life to playing a role and pretendin