Just Stay at Home

Avril Lavigne, the sullen pseudo-punk princess with a penchant for dressing like a boy, has often been told to grow up. So she did - in style. The newly chic singer-turned-model talks to Strawberry Saroyan about marriage, fashion and the importance of not being slutty
In 2002 Avril Lavigne, a 17-year-old from small-town Canada, released the catchy pop-punk anthem 'Complicated', about teen love with the wrong guy, and became, before the year was out, the biggest-selling female singer in America. She seemed to come from nowhere overnight, and might have vanished just as quickly were it not for her tomboy attitude, intoxicating - for fellow teens - slacker/skater style, and talent for churning out hit after hit.