Did Lady Gaga Get Plastic Surgery?
Everything the Singer-Actress Has Admitted to Over the Years
Lady Gaga is all about constantly reinventing her look, but has it come with any nips and tucks along the way? The singer-actress’ appearance has evolved so much in the years since she burst on the music scene in the mid-aughts, and along the way, she’s shared along the way her confessions about plastic surgery.
Being “born this way” wasn’t easy for the singer — real name Stefani Germanotta — while growing up, as she revealed in a 2010 interview that she was the victim of bullying. “I had a very big nose, very curly brown hair and I was overweight — I got made fun of,” Gaga told Cosmopolitan.
When she was on the verge of breaking big into the music industry, the singer felt pressure to go under the knife. While promoting A Star Is Born in 2018, Gaga revealed, “Before my first single ever came out, it was suggested I get a nose job, but I said, ‘No.’ I love my Italian nose.” She added defiantly, “If people wanted me to look like a sexpot, I would look like the opposite.”
Throughout her career, Gaga has changed up her hair into every possible color and length combination possible. But when it comes to altering her body, she revealed in a 2011 interview that she’d never gone under the knife.
“I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have,” the “Poker Face” singer told Harper’s Bazaar in 2011. She added, “I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.”
Gaga has admitted that she went through a period where she was “really obsessed” with getting facial injections. She dished to Howard Stern in a 2013 interview, “I’m telling you, I wasn’t exactly in the best frame of mind, and I would smoke a bunch of joints and have some drinks and I would be like, ‘Oh, let’s go see my girl’ and we would drive to this strip mall and I would get shot up with a bunch of whatever, Juvederm, and then leave.”
Eventually, a concerned pal of hers pointed out that she was getting hooked on the habit, and this knocked some sense into her. “A photographer friend was like, ‘Gaga, I love you but if you don’t stop injecting s—t in your face, I’m going to just kill you.’”
Scroll down to read Lady Gaga’s quotes about getting plastic surgery.
REFUSING TO BE A ‘SEXPOT’
“If people wanted me to look like a sexpot, I would look like the opposite,” Gaga said about industry pressure to change her appearance. She’s seen here at the start of her career in December 2008 while performing at New York’s Z100 Jingle Ball.
‘NO’ TO A NOSE JOB
“Before my first single ever came out, it was suggested I get a nose job, but I said, ‘No.’ I love my Italian nose,” the singer-actress revealed in a 2018 interview. She’s seen here at the 2010 2010 MTV Europe Music Awards.
GAGA WAS ‘BORN THIS WAY’
“I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have,” the singer revealed in a 2011 interview.
KEEPING THE SAME FACE
In the same interview, Gaga asked, “And how many models and actresses do you see on magazine covers who have brand-new faces and have had plastic surgery, while I myself have never had any plastic surgery? I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.” Gaga’s seen here in her infamous “meat dress” at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
ADMITS TO INJECTABLES
“I’ve never had any work-work done, but I went through a phase when I was smoking pot when I was really obsessed with getting facial injections,” Gaga told Howard Stern during a 2013 interview.
OK WITH FILLERS
“I’m telling you, I wasn’t exactly in the best frame of mind, and I would smoke a bunch of joints and have some drinks and I would be like, ‘Oh, let’s go see my girl’ and we would drive to this strip mall and I would get shot up with a bunch of whatever, Juvederm, and then leave,” she told Howard about her previous love of fillers.
TIME TO STOP
The singer told Howard she finally quit using facial fillers after, “A photographer friend was like, ‘Gaga, I love you but if you don’t stop injecting s—t in your face, I’m going to just kill you’.”
SHOWING HER NATURAL FACE
Gaga recalled to the The LA Times how nervous she was to go without makeup in A Star Is Born. She revealed of actor-director Bradley Cooper, “I remember very, very well, I walked down the stairs from my house before we filmed the screen test for A Star Is Born, and Bradley had a makeup wipe in his hand and he put his hand on my face and he went like this, and there was makeup, but just a little bit and he said, ‘I want no makeup on your face.’”
‘INSECURE’ ABOUT HER LOOKS
Gaga continued about her makeup-free look for the film, “It put me right in the place I needed to be, because when my character talks about how ugly she feels – that was real, I’m so insecure. I like to preach, but I don’t always practice what I preach.”
