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 - Gwen attended Loara High School in Anaheim, California.

 - The first entire song Gwen wrote, lyrics and music, was Simple Kind Of Life.

 - During the writing/recording of Return Of Saturn, Tom gave Gwen guitar lessons.

 - Gwen has never had any official singing lessons, but Brad (Nowell, from Sublime) did give her some help around '94 or so.

 - When Gwen was a teenager and in love with Sting, she finally met him and he was an asshole to her.

 

 - Gwen's first semi-boyfriend was a guy who looked heaps like Robert Smith (from The Cure, who she loved)

 - Gwen has no tattos - she had her nose pierced once, but took it out because everyone thought she was picking her nose when she played with it

 - Gwen married Gavin three times. First time in London, then back in a church in LA, and then at Jimmy Iovine's mansion in LA (he is the head of Interscope).

 - Gwen is Catholic

 - Gwen's first public performance was at her Loara High School talent show, where she sang the Selecter's "On My Radio" wearing a dress her mom made her like Maria from "Sound of Music".

 

 - Gwen says she always dreamed of working at Disneyland and singing at the Disneyland hotel.

 - Gwen has always wanted to get married and have a family - she said that in elementary school when the teacher asked what she wanted to be when she grew up she always drew a bride.

 - Gwen's fave song off Rock Steady is Rock Steady.

 - Gavin proposed to Gwen on New Year's Day of 2002.

 - Gwen is slightly dyslexic (has trouble learning)

 

 - When Gwen was a kid she was overweight that she had to go on a diet on doctors order. She had to lose at least ten pounds - so she joined her local swim team.

 - Gwen's dog Maegan died aged 14 (a couple of years ago).

 - Gwen got the idea of wearing a bindi from Tony's Mum

 - Gwen's parents were in a band called The Innertubes

 - None of the guys wanted Gwen to go out with Gavin at first because they thought he was bad news for her.

 

 - Gwen turned 30 in 1999, when they were writing and recording Return Of Saturn. She was going through alot, and it takes Saturn 30 years to orbit the sun, hence the title of the album.

 - Gwen's natural hair colour is brown.

 - Gwen's first kiss was with a guy named Bradley while on holiday, she said it was gross because she could feel his braces.

 - Gwen used to do ballet

 - The first thing Gavin said to Gwen when they met was "You're gorgeous."

 

 - When Gwen was 5 years old, she peed on the floor in ballet class because she was too nervous to ask to be excused to the bathroom.

 - Gavin buys a lot of Gwen's clothes. "He has good taste, that boy," she said in an interview. Gavin also, as many of you know, made Gwen give away those awesome yellow bondage pants she wore early on in the TK tour. She regrets giving them away now.

 - Gwen once made out with the keyboard player from Fishbone, who got angry when Gwen wouldn't take it further: "He tried to take advantage of the situation and I was not about to, and he got really mad."

 - Gwen also has a nephew, Jill's son (born sometime last year)
 
 - Gwen's fave colours are mustard yellow, sea foam green, and pink
 - Gwen was born in St Jude's hospital
 - Her natural hair colour is light brown
 - Her first concert was Emmylou Harris
 - Gwen remembers she was at a Radiohead concert once and was standing in the front row with tears running continuously down her face because the music was so beautiful
 
 - The priest who married Gwen and Gavin in London was Gavin's religious studies teacher
 - "In high school I didn't have loads of friends"
 - "Don't shave, don't shower, don't care. Be really stinky and wear the same clothes every day. I think what makes a man sexy is not being self-aware. That's what's really cute to me."
 - "Our record-company guys introduced us (Gwen and Gavin). And I just remember looking up at him, because he is very tall, and going, Wow. He looked so familiar to me; in his eyes, there was something about him. I said something like, "You've got gorgeous eyes," and I never say stuff like that. It was really cheesy, but it just came out. I don't know what he said to me right then, he was just being cool, but that night he told me I was gorgeous. I thought that was pretty great." (On Gavin)
 - "I was chubby... I wanted to get skinny. I'd wear things that covered up what I didn't like about myself, like baggy pajama pants because I liked the old-men prints."
 
  - The yellow jacket that Gwen wore in the Teen Vogue shoot that said "where did my lamb go?" on the back was only a sample for the LAMB line, it was never sold.
 - "I remember having to ask my dad for money every time. I remember John SPence having a plastic bag full of pennies and counting them out every week. Remember we used to pay two dollars for a mic? We'd be like, 'Do we really have to get two mics? We could share.'"
 - "I remember sitting there watching tv and he'd be like, 'hey Gwen come sing this' and I'd be like 'dude im trying to watch tv'." (on Eric making her sing)
 - "I'll be walking through a club thinking, I'm so fat today, or, why am I wearing so much makeup? And then this girl comes up and says, 'You're so beautiful. Can I have your autograph?' And it's like: If you only knew what's going thru my head right now! Thanks for coming up and saving me from, like, slaughtering myself."
 - "Yesterday I looked in the mirror and I thought, 'God, I look so old today. I look so tired.' So I just put on tons of make-up and screamed up and down the hall to try to get myself worked up and then I went out there and the audience was so intense there's just no way you couldn't feed off that. These kids were just on fire. They looked like a bunch of Rice Krispies!"
 
 - "Man I’m so hungry my stomach lining is digesting itself."
 - "I never wanted to go for the cute boys. Why would you wanna have a boyfriend who is cuter than you?"
 - "It's kinda weird when I'm in the store buying tampons and somebody takes a picture."
 - "Fashion is an extension of your personality, and I've always been obsessed. 
I've always wanted to have something different than everybody else."
 - "Tony offered to leave the band because he loved me so much,
but I wouldn't let him."  Did you offer to leave the band? (laughs) " Fuck No!!"

 - "My niece and I look pretty much the same in a bathing suit top."
 - "Tony is my favorite person outside Gavin.  Tony's my creative partner and my friend.  He's someone I can always depend on and I know cares about me and wouldn't try to do anything to hurt me."
 - "I think it's really hard for Gavin to have a girlfriend that's never there for him.  The band takes up everything."
 - "My job is to make him feel good."
 - "I started working out again before we went on tour (the Singles tour). By the end i was so buff i thought i was a man!"
 
 - Gwen's backyeard is decorated with signs reading 'Gwen Drive' and 'Gavin Way'
 - "Getting married was very romantic.  Just the little things, like being on the same passport.  I changed my name--I still have my stage name, of course.  You feel like you're one and you're working toward the same thing together."
 - "My parents were very strict.  I had to wear white underwear until I finished high school."
 - "I know that there are a lot of children in this world that can't wait until they get adopted, but having a baby conceived by me and my husband, that is ideal."
 - "Gavin's going to make the most incredible dad."

 - "The Annie soundtrack - I used to listen to it every night before I went to sleep.  I loved that movie."
 - "Before high school I didn't have any interest in boys.  Neither did they have any for me."
 - "Platinum Blonde is my fantasy hair color, because I was always obsessed with Jean Harlow and Marilyn Monroe.  I have to bleach it about once a month."
 - "I never cut my hair because it always just breaks off, and I haven't seen my real hair color since 9th grade."
 - Gwen auditioned for a part in Fight Club
 
 - While Gwen was jogging in France she got lost and forgot what the name of her hotel was, so she rang her parents in America to ask them what her hotel name was.
 - Gwen bought the Los Feliz house for $1.4million in 1998 after the Tragic Kingdom Tour, I think Gavin bought the Primrose Hill house in '97/'98.
 - When Gwen inducted The Police into the Hall of Fame they specifically chose her to do it and she wrote the speech herself
 - Gwen was on the soccer and swim team in high school
 - Gwen and Tony both got ear infections from the freezing cold water in the Hella Good video shoot
 - Gwen bought her brother Todd and his wife a house, and also bought her sister Jill a car
 
 - Gwen was a bridesmaid in Adrian's, Tom's and Todd's weddings
 - Gwen had a childhood cat named Snoopy Boops
 - Gwen was given her dog Maegan on her 17th birthday
 - The pink on Gwen's wedding dress was hand painted, and the whole dress took 7 months to make

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