Singer, songwriter, designer. Born on October 3, 1969, in Anaheim, California. After rising to stardom as the lead singer of No Doubt, Gwen Stefani has become a popular and powerful figure in the world of music and fashion.Learning to sew from her mother, Stefani developed an interest in fashion early on. Her love of music was influenced by her older brother Eric who played a lot of recordings by such ska revival bands as Madness. With friend John Spence as the lead singer, Eric started the group No Doubt, - www.biography.com

Artsy high school senior Stefani dreams of being a homemaker like her mother, but when older brother Eric forms a band, No Doubt, with fellow Dairy Queen workers, she agrees to join as second vocalist. In December 1987, the band's lead singer, John Spence, takes his own life at age 18. At her brother's urging, Stefani takes over lead vocals. "All I wanted to ever do was get married and have babies, have a house," she tells the Washington Post a decade later. "So it's weird that I'm in a rock group." - www.people.com

--> WHAT SHE'S UP TO She's already a rocker who made 'girl power' cool and founder and designer of a rock chic fashion line, but she's also apparently the coolest mom ever. In between taking her boys (Kingston and Zuma) to the park Gwen let Kingston play Harajuku girl for the day before he walked out of a salon with a rainbow of painted finger nails and toes--to go with his mohawk of course. And this is all before meeting up with the whole fam to go to a Yo Gabba Gabba concert.  - www.popeater.com