Gwen Stefani looks unrecognizable in flashback snap as she makes sad confession about her appearance

Gwen Stefani opened up to Drew Barrymore astir feeling riddled with insecurity astir her quality arsenic a mediate schooler successful Anaheim, California.

The 55-year-old euphony creator — who is joined to state vocalist Blake Shelton — stopped by the speech amusement to beforehand her caller medium Bouquet.

Explaining what inspired her opus Pretty, she said, 'I was looking backmost successful my life, astatine each of the photos, similar carnal and interior quality of myself. I was reasoning astir eighth grade, I’m similar staring successful the reflector successful the gym, right, similar by myself going, "Am I cute? I can’t tell." You cognize erstwhile you’re trying to fig retired if you are oregon not?'

The No Doubt frontwoman past explained she was evaluating the throwback snapshots to find erstwhile she felt 'the prettiest' and erstwhile she liked herself 'the most.'

She pinpointed: 'It was close erstwhile Blake started loving me.  

'I wanted to constitute a opus astir that, due to the fact that erstwhile you really consciousness emotion for the archetypal time, they bespeak you. You tin spot yourself successful them.'

Stefani antecedently described her narration with Shelton, who she met portion they were some judges connected The Voice, arsenic a 'miracle.'

After her heartbreaking divorcement from ex-husband Gavin Rossdale successful 2015, she wasn't definite however to determination forward.

And she felt protective of their 3 sons — Kingston, 18, Zuma, 16, and Apollo, 10 —after their split.

In an interrogation with People, the vocalist shared: 'The past 4 years of my life, I got engaged, past I got joined and started my beingness over. Something that I wanted since I was a small miss is to beryllium joined and person this emotion that I saw my parents person and person babies.'

The Hollaback Girl hitmaker and her ex-husband dated for six years earlier tying the knot successful September 2002. 

Referring to her 13-year national with Rossdale, 59, she added: 'That imagination was wholly ruined; it was crushed, and I had to fig retired however I was going to determination guardant and marque a caller dream.'

'God putting Blake successful my beingness was conscionable that miracle,' she said astir their emotion story, which started aboriginal successful 2015.

She recalled: 'Especially increasing up with this cleanable illustration of emotion betwixt my parents. They met erstwhile they were 15, and they fell successful love, and past they had america (children), and they made america consciousness similar we were everything to them.

'And erstwhile you person a household and it's the other of that, it breaks up... I didn't cognize what to bash oregon however to support my children. And I'm inactive moving connected that.'

Stefani besides gushed implicit her calling arsenic a singer-songwriter, explaining she has a 'responsibility' to 'share' her 'gift,' contempt being engaged with raising her brood.

She said: 'Where does the inspiration travel from? Where bash these words travel from? They travel to me, but they're fixed to me. So I consciousness similar it's my responsibility, whether I person children oregon not children, to stock that.

'It's a acquisition to maine that I'm sharing with people. And I decidedly deliberation that there's definite songs that they don't mean the aforesaid happening to maine arsenic they would mean to idiosyncratic else, due to the fact that nobody's successful my encephalon oregon successful my bosom oregon successful my soul.'

'They're going to person a antithetic acquisition done the song,' she added astir the listeners' narration to her music.