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Lady Gaga Says She Suffered From Bulimia As A Teen
Posted on Thu Feb 9, 2012 11:35 AM PDT
Lady Gaga attended the "It's Our Turn" conference at a Los Angeles high school yesterday, and the pop star chatted with host Maria Shriver and dozens of young women about everything from being bullied to her battle with bulimia.
Gaga told the audience, "I used to throw up all the time in high school. So I’m not that confident. I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night. I used to come home and say, ‘Dad, why do you always give us this food? I need to be thin.’ And he’d say, ‘Eat your spaghetti.’ It’s really hard, but you’ve got to talk to somebody about it." Gaga added, "It made my voice bad, so I had to stop. The acid on your vocal chords — it’s very bad."
The Grammy winner continued, "Weight is still a struggle. Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you - they make you perfect. It’s not real life. I’m gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it’s affecting kids your age. And it’s making girls sick."
As for being bullied, Gaga said, "I started having trouble with girls in middle school. I always knew that I wanted to do something very career oriented, and I always wanted to be a musician. That alone set me apart. I had such strong convictions and I was pretty delusional, in the same way that I am now … in wanting to change the world and end bullying in America and do whatever I can to promote peace around the world. It might sound kind of silly coming from someone in red lipstick with a bunch of jewels on my jacket. But that’s just the way I have always been. Being excluded is painful."
Glad she's able to talk about it now!
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i really like Gaga. She is so honest about her life struggles without victimising herself - really refreshing!
Idiot! Just a lot of BS coming out of your copycat mouth. You'r a fraud and you know it!
She's such a liar. She will say and do anything for sympathy. Her classmates have said many times that she wasn't bullied and that she was actually popular. She makes it seem she was a loner, but she had a large group of friends. If you see her on MTV's Melting Point, you can see how b*tchy she was. She also never struggled financially as she claims, her father paid for her apartment and would give her spending money, some which she would spend on dr*gs.
Do GaGa and LiLo share the same hair-stylist?
Anything to stay relevant. Next thing you know she'll be claiming she was born a poor black child...
3,39 ahaha i thought this was a pic of lohan. no joke.
stop aw-ing, lady blahblah.
Why does Madonna hate Lady GaGa?
We believe ya, Lady goo goo gaa gaa! NOT!
A lot of teens experiment with different things. Glad she grew out of them.
Lindsay can only wish she looked this good, or had Gaga's money.
BARF!
She needs to put her nose on a diet.
She looks like something someone puked up still.
Next she will say how she was molested or raped.
This chick jumps on every bandwagon she can find. She clearly has some kind of psychosis, like habitually lying.
FRAUD.
Gory gaga is so FULL OF IT!
Making the world a better place is NOT on gaga's agenda!! Making A LOT OF MONEY and encouraging a generation of LGBTQ YOUTH to HATE THEMSELVES IS GAGA'S GOAL, AND ITS WORKING!!
GORY GAGA HAS DEHUMANIZED AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY!!!! Her fans are killing themselves because, she fills them with self-loathing demons!! And identifying as a "monster" increasing the chances of Gay bullying!!!
Gory gaga's FAKE foundation, like many started by celebrities, is just another way to MAKE MONEY BY EXPLOITING VULNERABLE PEOPLE! MOST celebrity foundations go under, or are discovered to be money making ventures and the founders are usually making A LOT of MONEY$$$ and they dont really help anyone, but themselves!
Just like gaga was sued for STEALING MONEY from Japanese Earthquake Victims, with those paw's for Japan bracelets, that gaga was selling for PROFIT!!!
Gaga will not stop until the world is FILLED WITH HATE AND INTOLERANCE! Look at how she has degraded an entire community and stirred up the HATE against LGBTQ People!!!
GAY BULLYING IS AT AN ALL TIME HIGH THANKS TO GAGA!!!!
Gory gaga has created a dark depressing world, full off hateful bullying, and catty beyotches!
Ive read and observed that her fans are EVIL! They attack ppl on twitter with hate and bullying, and gaga the hypocrite, doesn't tell them to stop. HYPOCRITE!!! Gory gaga gets off on manipulated monsters defending her sick and perverse behaviors, by bullying other's!!!
EVERYTHING gaga does is CALCULATED MANIPULATION, TO ALIENATE and NEGATIVELY CONTROL a large group of people! like david koresh.
GAGA ONLY LOVES MONEY AND POWER, NOT PEOPLE!! GAGA IS A BULLY TO HER OWN FANS. Watch her concert, that is NOT LOVE!!! "gaga IS WORSE THAN NORMAN BATES MOTHER" according to Arts Journal. THATS NOT LOVE!!!
NOTHING ABOUT GAGA EXUDES LOVE AND POSITIVITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GAGA PROMOTES MATERIALISM.
Anyone who defends gaga turns into a HARDCORE HATER!! Ive heard Gay's bash Britney and Madonna for no real reason, other than gaga has infested them with HATE DEMON'S. Gory gaga tweets about karl laggerfalled and next thing you know he is calling Adele "Fat".
GORY GAGA'S ENERGY IS WHERE ALL THE HATE IS COMING FROM, DUH!!!!!!!!!!
Elton and his partner are very MEAN to Madonna after being sucked into gaga's hateful energy.
GORY GAGA'S FANS HATE EVERYBODY BUT HER!!!! AND THAT IS HOW GAGA WANTS IT!!!!!!!
THEY EVEN HATE OTHER LITTLE MONSTER'S & ARE CLICKY AND CRUEL TO EACH OTHER!
ITS SHOCKING TO SEE HOW GORY GAGA BRINGS OUT THE WORST IN EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GAGA WANTS TO KEEP THE WORLD DIVIDED! Thats why the "white race is good" to gaga, but "Black is evil"!!! Just watch born this way
full length!!! Y'all are truly BLIND! Gory gaga is dictator like hitler.
HOW MANY MORE OF HER DEHUMANIZED "MONSTER"-FANS HAVE TO COMMIT SUICIDE, LIKE JUDAS, BEFORE THE WORLD FINALLY "GET'S IT"??
GAGA IS A DETRIMENT TO ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DONT BE A MORBID MONSTER, BE A GOOD PERSON!!! BOYCOTT GORY GAGA AND ALL OF HER FAKENESS!!
@5:53am gaga HAS been "raped and molested" by her own father, that IS VERY OBVIOUS, by gaga's morbid, oversexualized, body dysmorphic, behaviors!! When gaga said her 'dad forced her to eat meat "balls" every day', she didn't mean food!
"Madonna adds that Gaga "seems to have had a challenging upbringing".-US
But gaga will never admit it, cuz she is in love with her own father. He makes her "speechless" according to her own song, when her dad gets her drunk on whiskey and has sex with her and her sister. Her little sister looks more MISERABLE and DEPRESSED than gaga!
Knew a woman who was "raped and molested" by her own father, like gaga she turned into a A VERY MEAN MONSTER, she got addicted to heroin, was a hooker like gaga, and died of AIDS...
gaga reminds me of that woman so much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Instead of getting help, gaga would rather protect her father.
Gaga has admitted her father "disowned her" when she first became famous.
"Disowning" your own children is SUCH A CATHOLIC BEHAVIOR!!!!!! THAT'S NOT LOVE EITHER!!!!
One of my gay friends, has devout catholic parents who practically "disowned" him after he came out, banishing him from their home, to live far away, out of site, out of mind. THATS SO SAD, SO WRONG...AND SO CATHOLIC!!!
DEVOUT CATHOLICS CAN BE REALLY CRUEL TO THEIR OWN FAMILY! They treat their family like shi+ but they go to mass every week, and they love the pope more than Jesus and The Virgin Mary, hypocrites.
ITS APPARENT THAT GAGA HAS NEVER KNOWN LOVE.
THAT IS WHY GAGA DOES NOT CARE FOR, OR TREAT HER FANS, (OR HERSELF) IN A HEALTHY, POSITIVE, APPROPRIATE WAY! --->"being on stage is like having sex with my fans"-lady gaga
PHONY GAGA'S EXPLOITING GAY'S FOR $$$
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GAGA HAS FOUND YET ANOTHER WAY TO EXPLOIT AND PROFIT$$$ FROM THE PAIN AND SUFFERING OF A VULNERABLE COMMUNITY!! WHICH GAGA DOES NOT BELONG TO! SHE IS SOOOOO HETERO!!!!!
Just like gaga's 'paws for Japan bracelet' SCAM, gaga and her mum, will eventually be sued for STEALING money from the foundation!,like gaga was sued for STEALING from earthquake VICTIMS!!!
When gaga was repeatedly asked what SHE would do and what her ideas were, she admitted she gave the same answer to everyone="gaga has NO IDEA'S about how to make the world a better place". gaga said that's harvards job to figure out. If gaga's motives were pure, she would have had better and more caring answer's!!!
I'm glad SMART GAY'S have started to realize what a SCAM ARTIST gaga is!!!!!!!!!!!!
John 12:3-6
"3 Then Mary took about a pint of pure nard, an expensive perfume; she poured it on Jesus’ feet and wiped his feet with her hair. And the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
4 But one of his disciples, JUDAS Iscariot, who was later to BETRAY HIM, objected, 5 “Why wasn’t this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year’s wages.” 6 He did not say this because he cared about the poor but because HE WAS A THIEF; as keeper of the MONEY BAG, he used to HELP HIMSELF to what was put into it."- The Bible
gaga also kept saying Our Gay Civil Rights Movement will "take a REALLY long time at her fauxdation fundraiser".
Actually, gaga is WRONG! There is an intellectual formula to starting a trend and/or epidemic. One rule is that major change happens RAPIDLY!!! Our Gay Rights Movement is at a crucial "tipping point", and gaga has tipped The Movement into a NEGATIVE DIRECTION!!!
gaga has used pop culture to REINFORCE EVERY NEGATIVE STEREOTYPE SOCIETY HAS CREATED ABOUT THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY!!!!
Society has called Homosexuals "MONSTER'S" for centuries and gaga totally reinforces that MISCONCEPTION!!
DONT BUY INTO THAT LABEL=MONSTER!!!! BE HUMAN, BE HAPPY!!!
"Lady Gaga gives 50 percent of her earnings to her father
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
It’s her great paradox: At 25, Lady Gaga may be the most avant-garde performer of the last decade, a self-anointed Queen of the Freaks who reinvents herself with whipsaw rigor, yet she remains very much a nice Catholic girl who is most comfortable with 19-year-old sister Natali, mom Cynthia and dad Joe — who takes an unprecedented 50 percent of her earnings under their LLCs, Team Love Child and Mermaid Music."
"But it’s the 50/50 split between Gaga and her father that’s most unusual. There’s only one other of its kind in the history of the music industry — between Elvis and Col. Tom Parker.
“There’s really no justifiable sense to doing a 50/50 deal with anyone in your career, other than someone you’re partners in a band with,” says Josh Grier, an entertainment lawyer who represents Wilco and Elvis Costello, among others. “Certainly no artist entering a management deal does anything close to that — a commission is usually 15 to 20 percent.”
"That said, it’s quite possible that Lady Gaga, born Stefani Germanotta, believes her father has earned his share of her fortune, even though her success has allowed him to realize a lifelong dream: He now works in the industry, managing aspiring artists. Yet she likely sees this as further evidence of how similar they are; her adoration is unconditional. In January 2010, she told Elle magazine, “I’m married to my dad,” and that September, she told Vanity Fair, “I’m happier than I’ve ever been. I’ve been in my father’s arms for two weeks, wishing [him] a Happy Father’s Day"
"Joe Germanotta grew up in New Jersey, a rock ’n’ roll fanatic who loved Led Zeppelin and Billy Joel and who perhaps overshared with his daughter along the way: “He was having sex with girls under the boardwalk in New Jersey before he went to see Bruce Springsteen,” Gaga said in July. “He saw a lot of himself in me. My first piano teacher was a stripper."
"At the time, Stefani was also performing as a burlesque dancer in downtown nightclubs and working out a more sexually provocative look, often walking down the street in fishnets, spike heels and heavy makeup, mistaken for a hooker or a transsexual, not caring either way. Her father, however, was appalled. Stefani told one friend that her father had reprimanded her for wearing underwear over her tights to a business meeting at Sony: “He said, ‘You look like a f--king slut!"
"As she began making progress, Joe was seemingly swayed by his daughter’s assertion that everything was in service of her art. He’s become so inured to his daughter’s outre costuming that he was recently shot at a party with his arm around Gaga, who was braless in a sheer top, nipples covered with black electrical tape. Perhaps his involvement in the industry accounts for the shift in attitude. Since 2008, Joe Germanotta has worked as a music manager, though none of the acts in his stable has yet to break. His daughter remains his most successful investment."- NY Post site
"Lady Gaga gives 50 percent of her earnings to her father
By MAUREEN CALLAHAN
It’s her great paradox: At 25, Lady Gaga may be the most avant-garde performer of the last decade, a self-anointed Queen of the Freaks who reinvents herself with whipsaw rigor, yet she remains very much a nice Catholic girl who is most comfortable with 19-year-old sister Natali, mom Cynthia and dad Joe — who takes an unprecedented 50 percent of her earnings under their LLCs, Team Love Child and Mermaid Music."
"But it’s the 50/50 split between Gaga and her father that’s most unusual. There’s only one other of its kind in the history of the music industry — between Elvis and Col. Tom Parker.
“There’s really no justifiable sense to doing a 50/50 deal with anyone in your career, other than someone you’re partners in a band with,” says Josh Grier, an entertainment lawyer who represents Wilco and Elvis Costello, among others. “Certainly no artist entering a management deal does anything close to that — a commission is usually 15 to 20 percent.”
"That said, it’s quite possible that Lady Gaga, born Stefani Germanotta, believes her father has earned his share of her fortune, even though her success has allowed him to realize a lifelong dream: He now works in the industry, managing aspiring artists. Yet she likely sees this as further evidence of how similar they are; her adoration is unconditional. In January 2010, she told Elle magazine, “I’m married to my dad,” and that September, she told Vanity Fair, “I’m happier than I’ve ever been. I’ve been in my father’s arms for two weeks, wishing [him] a Happy Father’s Day"
"Joe Germanotta grew up in New Jersey, a rock ’n’ roll fanatic who loved Led Zeppelin and Billy Joel and who perhaps overshared with his daughter along the way: “He was having sex with girls under the boardwalk in New Jersey before he went to see Bruce Springsteen,” Gaga said in July. “He saw a lot of himself in me. My first piano teacher was a stripper."
"At the time, Stefani was also performing as a burlesque dancer in downtown nightclubs and working out a more sexually provocative look, often walking down the street in fishnets, spike heels and heavy makeup, mistaken for a hooker or a transsexual, not caring either way. Her father, however, was appalled. Stefani told one friend that her father had reprimanded her for wearing underwear over her tights to a business meeting at Sony: “He said, ‘You look like a f--king slut!"
"As she began making progress, Joe was seemingly swayed by his daughter’s assertion that everything was in service of her art. He’s become so inured to his daughter’s outre costuming that he was recently shot at a party with his arm around Gaga, who was braless in a sheer top, nipples covered with black electrical tape. Perhaps his involvement in the industry accounts for the shift in attitude. Since 2008, Joe Germanotta has worked as a music manager, though none of the acts in his stable has yet to break. His daughter remains his most successful investment."- NY Post site
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