The rocker talks life in Oklahoma and the challenges of touring with kids.
"When I was young, I'd walk home from school and see my mom in her shorts doing her gardening, and my dad would be cutting the trees and make me pick up the branches. I'd be like, 'I'm having a tree at my house,'" she tells the mag."When we get to Oklahoma, we're constantly working — and it's a different kind of work.
-- her priorities lie with her children. Stefani shares three sons with her ex-husband: 17-year-old Kingston, 15-year-old Zuma, and 9-year-old Apollo. "I took Kingston on a world tour [when he was nine months old]. I would have to nurse him, then get onstage, come off, and he would twirl my ponytail," she says."That's when things got really hard for me emotionally. That time is so precious, and you don't want to miss anything." "When my kids were teenagers, I really wanted to make sure that I was home for them," she reveals."And here we are.
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