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Lady Gaga has gained some weight. In a recent radio
interview she estimated it was about 25 pounds. She didn’t have to comment on
it but she did. She said her parents recently opened a restaurant and her father
wants her to eat there. Gaga went on to say she loves pizza and pasta and every
time she goes there she gains 5 pounds (what a plug for “Joanne Trattoria”
which happens to be on the Upper West Side).
She has no issue with her fuller figure saying “I really don’t feel bad about it, not even for a second”. Sounds
good right? She loves to eat, supports her parent’s business and isn’t bothered
by putting on a few, or twenty-something, pounds.
Is this the same person who tweeted about doing back-to-back
spin classes with hashtag #popsingersdonteat? In the radio segment she mentioned
that she constantly has to be on such a
strict diet and she’s trying to find
some sort of balance. Let’s be clear, this isn’t the case of a celebrity
gaining 3 pounds and media blowing it out of proportion. This weight gain seems
to have happened in a couple of months (for the record Joanne’s has been opened
for over a year), so it’s been quick, and strikes me as sad coming from the
“born this way” singer whose lyrics advise us “just love yourself and you’re
set.”
Gaga has been open about her love for booze and recently lit
a joint on stage at a show in Amsterdam. She also has a history of bulimia. At
a conference in California she opened up about this “I threw up all the time in high school. 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.” So this struggle is not
new.
Lady Gaga has started an anti-bullying foundation and my
guess is that she wants to put a brave face forward about this. So although
when I asked a friend about the food at Joanne’s and she said, “it’s not
Foodtrainers-friendly” I wouldn’t chalk all of this up to calamari. I am a lady
gaga fan, it’s ironic to think that someone who seemed the epitome of marching
to the beat of her own drum (or piano) is a little beaten down by expectations
when it comes to weight.
When celebrities open up about their weight does it invite more commentary? Do you buy Gaga's explanation about her father's restaurant? Do you think it strange that both as a child and adult she blames her dad for her weight?
