Gwen Stefani: Being a working mum is such hard work

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GWEN Stefani has revealed how hard she finds it to balance her pop career with being the perfect mum.

In an interview with ELLE UK, she said: "Being a mum is hard, I think a lot of working mums feel that way.
"[They want] to have time to be themselves as well but there’s a price to pay.
"Like today, I’m here talking to you and my son is at the beach. It would be super fun to watch his little four-year-old chunky legs running around, you know.”
On the subject of balance between stardom and mumdom, the What You Waiting For? diva added: "It’s not possible. There are always days that somebody suffers."
Gwen, 42, is married to British rocker Gavin Rossdale and the couple have two sons: Kingston, six, and Zuma, four.
The singer has taken a six-year break from music while raising her boys but reunited with band No Doubt for a brand new album, Push and Shove, which is out later this month.
She confesses she has no idea where the six years has gone, saying: "I think the thing that bothers me most is how fast time is going by. To look at my six-year-old. I mean I was just pregnant, I just did that tour...but no, I didn’t."

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Of Push and Shove she says: "[With this record] I just felt I was trying every day to not rush and to not feel pressured, like, 'Oh, it has to come out now because of my age,' or whatever.
"You can’t predict what’s going to happen, you just have to live in the moment."
Gwen, whose debut solo album Love. Angel. Music. Baby. sold four million copies, admits motherhood is her greatest challenge yet.
She said: “When you first have a baby your life doesn’t change. I mean, you have a little less sleep and you drag these cuddly things around you and it’s just amazing. But you still get to be you.
"Once they get to, like, five, six and school and it starts to get, like, ‘Wow, they got real problems. They’re my responsibility...’ Oh my God. That is overwhelming.”
The stunning blonde was rocked in 2004 when a paternity test proved Bush frontman Gavin was the father of model Daisy Lowe, now 23, after a one-night affair with her mum, Pearl Lowe.
Gwen confessed to being "devastated and infuriated" at the discovery. Gavin is Daisy's godfather but has since severed all ties with the Lowe family.
Read the full interview in the October issue of ELLE UK, on sale Wednesday. Also available as a digital edition.