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Gwen Stefani was once the rocker chic girl in a polka dot dress and bottom flipped hair crooning “Don’t Speak” in the microphone. Now she is the clothing label-owning mom of two, and a fashion icon covering the January cover girl of Vogue Magazine. 

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The cover features Gwen, not looking a day older than she did in 1996 when she sang the song about bandmate and then-boyfriend of 7 years, Tony Kanal. Now marriages and children later, the band has reunited to make magic all over again. 

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In a very rare occurence, No Dobut let Vogue writer Jonathan Van Meter sit in on one of their rehearsals for an article that reveals much about their dynamic as a band and Gwen as a front (wo)man. 

Check out some of the interview below.

Gwen on her voice beginning to go: 

“It’s not like I have that much control over it,” she says. “It’s what I was given. Sometimes I don’t realize how much I’m straining. I have to be really careful because there’s so much coming up.”

On the dynamic of the group with her in the spotlight: 

“We’re really good at it now. We know that we all play a role. But there was a time when it was confusing. It was messy. The breakup, the new relationship, everyone recognizing me. All of that stuff feels like it’s so far away now; it’s just us as friends, so grateful to be doing what we’re doing still.”

On the moment they decided to reunite: 

I was on tour for my second solo record in 2007, and I was playing Irvine Meadows in Orange County, which is basically where we grew up. I said, ‘Why don’t you guys come onstage as a surprise during the encore?’ The audience was already so on fire because it’s our hometown, and then these guys came out and it was just, like, electric. I’d never felt anything like it before. That was, I think, the moment when we were all like, Arrrgh, let’s do this already.”

Be sure to check out the full interview over at Vogue.com