NEW YORK: Lady GaGa admits she’s insecure. In a new Glamour magazine interview, the singer opened up about how she feels about herself. “I would say that I am,” she said.
“Maybe it’s from the things I experienced in my past, you know? Being beautiful is not so fun when you’re in a business with all men. Because it can actually get in the way. “So in some ways, the outfits-these creations are because I don’t want to face the reality of what people want from a female pop star.
Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off.
But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.”
She then talked about her real life persona, Stefani Germanotta, and being Gaga.
“I’m both all the time. Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames,” she said. “I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it’s something that’s reserved for only the people who are closest to me.
It’s not because I don’t like my given name; it’s that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is-you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past.”–SP