Gwen Stefani

Pop star Gwen Stefani grew up thinking she had no brains, no talent, and would probably be a teenage mother. In a recent interview with Elle magazine, the 39-year-old says that she was very apprehensive about school work, particularly exams, and that she still is sometimes haunted by the fear of those exams.

She told Elle, ?¢‚Ǩ?ìSchool was just really hard for me. I didn?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢t want to fail I wanted to be smart! But I was really dreaming, like drawing my boyfriend?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s name on my notebooks.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

Once she began writing songs, however, her confidence improved. ?¢‚Ǩ?ìI never had any kind of ambitions. I just thought I was going to have babies?¢‚Ǩ¬¶ When I found out that I could write songs, I felt like all of a sudden I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢d found myself.?¢‚Ǩ¬ù

Stefani recently got back together with the other former members of the band No Doubt and has faced rumors that she and the bandmates are having a tough time getting along together. While she said she had a ?¢‚Ǩ?ìheated conversation?¢‚Ǩ¬ù with her ex-boyfriend Tony Kanal (bassist for No Doubt) about No Doubt?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s cover of the song ?¢‚Ǩ?ìStand and Deliver?¢‚Ǩ¬ù by Adam and the Ants, she says that whatever tension there was has since disappeared.