Gwen Stefani thinks that her career and family life are so often in competition with each other, and she has so many projects going on, it can be difficult to find a balance. Gwen says that she tried to make a plan for herself years ago, but it has always been changing and sometimes things happen at once which can make dealing with everything so much harder – she admits that it’s a daily challenge:
”Well, you don’t plan for it to all happen at one time. Like, 10 years ago, I said, ‘Oh I want to start a clothing line so I can do something creative, for when I have my kids and I can be home and I won’t really be doing music.’ And then here we are! We’re doing like everything at once and I’m like, ‘Oh no!’ It’s super hard. Every day is a challenge and I don’t know, like, it doesn’t work most days but some days you get up and it’s all good.”
Gwen found her pregnancies and her tours all happened at one important part of her life, and it was a struggle to deal with everything happening in one go as she balanced new motherhood with writing new material, recording songs and heading out on tour, even while pregnant:
”I had gotten pregnant [with Kingston], went on tour pregnant, and then had the baby and went on tour. It was crazy. ‘I nursed the first baby for like 14 months on tour while doing shows, and then the month I got home I got pregnant with Zuma and that was the month No Doubt were gonna get together to start to write the record, I was just a bit dictated…”
