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Motherhood Quote by Gwen Stefani

"I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella"

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Gwen Stefani’s line lands like a glitter-bomb of sincerity: motherhood imagined not as a quiet retreat from pop life, but as an extension of performance. The intent is sweet - she’s talking about making childhood feel magical - yet the subtext is unmistakably celebrity-coded. If your job has always involved costumes, personas, and turning your body into a canvas, “being Mom” doesn’t replace that; it just gets a new audience.

What makes the quote work is how it collapses fantasy and labor into the same gesture. Dressing as Alice or Cinderella isn’t just playacting; it’s emotional production. It’s the mom-as-worldbuilder fantasy, where childhood wonder is something you can curate the way you curate an image, a set, a brand. That’s both charming and a little anxious: a pre-emptive promise to be unforgettable, to never be ordinary, to keep the spotlight warm even in the domestic sphere.

In context, Stefani came up in an era when pop stardom increasingly blurred into fashion iconography, and she was one of the most self-consciously stylized figures of the early 2000s. So the quote reads like an artist’s instinct to translate love into aesthetics. It also hints at a broader cultural script: modern parenting as experience design. The fairytale costume becomes a symbol of aspirational care - not just raising kids, but staging childhood as a story worth watching.

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Stefani, Gwen. (2026, January 16). I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-thinking-that-when-i-have-children-that-i-93258/

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Stefani, Gwen. "I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-thinking-that-when-i-have-children-that-i-93258/.

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"I was thinking that when I have children, that I should always dress as a character for them, so they think their mom is Alice in Wonderland or Cinderella." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-was-thinking-that-when-i-have-children-that-i-93258/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Gwen Stefani (born October 3, 1969) is a Musician from USA.

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