Gwen Stefani says she learned that she has this trouble through her sons
The three children of the singer open his eyes to his own dyslexia when they started learning to read.
Look at things through theEyes of your children can extend your perspective. ForGwen StefaniHis sons helped him understand some problems she was fighting earlier in her own life. In an interview withZane Lowe for hisAt home with Series on Apple music (viaPeople),Gwen Stefani said she had discovered she has dyslexia After his sons were starting to learn to read.
"One thing I discovered by having children is thatI have dyslexia, "The singer andThe voiceCoach revealed. "Everyone has things that happen and mine was that. And I feel like a lot of problems I had or even decisions I made for myself from that, because now Children - obviously, all that is genetic have some of these questions. "
According to the Mayo Clinic,dyslexia "is a learning disability which implies a difficulty of reading because of problems of identifying the sounds of speech and learn how they relate to letters and words. This affects the part of the brain that treats the language. The Mayo Clinic also notes that dyslexia tends to run in families and often does not do not diagnose up to adulthood. .
Stefani shares three children - 14 years oldKingston, 12 yearsZumaand 6 yearsApollo-With his ex-husbandRossdale gavin. And she explained in the podcast who, thanks to an increased awareness of the disorder, his children are able to support their reading so that she did not do it.
"Now they get all these benefits," said 51 year old singer. "They have these incredible teachers and schools and they do not need shame on this. They understand that their brain works in a different way. All our brains do, do you know what I mean?"
Read it to find out how the undiagnosed dyslexia of Stefani has affected his life, from school to his time, as a leading singer without any doubt. And for more stars that dealt with this question, here is here8 celebrities you did not know were dyslexic.
The school was not easy for her.
"I was a good girl. I did not do bad business," said Stefani on the podcast. "It was just very difficult for me to operate in this square box of the school that everyone was supposed to be understood. And my brain did not work like that; it still does not do it." She sees the good side of things: "[My brain] works in different ways that are probably a gift that other people can not do." For a famous offspring that really takes after their elders, check25 children of celebrities who look like their parents.
His dyslexia affected his trust.
Stefani talked about the time surrounding his 1995 album of his group no doubtTragic kingdom, which presents songs on his break with the bassist and the co-writer of the groupTony Kanal. She was at a low point and thinks her dyslexia contributed to that - but the performance was something that made her better.
"I wrote that all the recording not even knowing how to write a song and I had literally asked all my life for everyone to be heard," she said. "And then I'm still in the group with Tony, who I was so dependent on, because of my dyslexie probably. I did not know until now. But I think I did not trust in At the time, but when I would write a song or that I would be on stage, he felt just as good and the only thing that suits me well. "
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She suspected she could have dyslexia years ago.
The subject came in a2009 Stefani interview has done withElapseWhen his elder child, Kingston, was only three years old. Stefani said at the time: "The school was really difficult for me. I do not havewant toto fail. I wanted to be smart! But I really dreamed, I like drawing the name of my boyfriend on my notebooks. It was such a catastrophe. It's so sad! It makes me sad when I think about it. I always have nightmares on the tests. "For more second-generation stars, check19 celebrity children on their first red carpet.
These days, she's better than ever.
In the last five years, Stefani has been in a relationship with her Voice Co-star, campaign singer Blake Shelton . Both were engaged this year and it attributes some of his current happiness to their love story. "Life has become so good with respect to a best friend with whom I can be in love and simply share everything with and trusted," said Stefani Lowe of Shelton. "It's just a chapter so different." For more information on the musical couple, check Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton announce a commitment in the most cute way .
