L.A.M.B.

NEW YORK
If you want to know how Gwen Stefani maintains her youthful enthusiasm, not to mention her girlish figure, try chatting with her for half an hour. But take your vitamins first.

"I'm just going to keep talking until you ask another question," Stephani chirps, plopping onto a sofa in MTV's green room. No Doubt's 35-year-old, cellulite-free lead singer has described herself as having been a chubby teenager, but her breathless energy suggests the metabolism of a hummingbird.

"I actually have thought of myself as, like, lazy," Stefani says. "Like, I love sleeping and eating and watching TV. But once I find something that I'm passionate about, I get this crazy drive. Because you hear the clock ticking, and you're like, 'Omigod, I want to do all these things, and I have to hurry up because I'm going to die soon."

Certainly, Stefani's schedule in recent years would challenge the most determined multitasker. Since No Doubt's last studio album, Rock Steady, was released in late 2001, she has toured extensively, gotten married -- to fellow rocker Gavin Rossdale, frontman for the British group Bush -- and acted opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Martin Scorcese's The Aviator, opening Dec. 17, in shich Stefani plays '30s starlet Jean Harlow. Late last year, she also launched her own fashion line, called L.A.M.B., and acronym for "Love Angel Music Baby." Read More...