Why Lady Gaga Is "Terrified of Babies"
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There's one superstar who won't be joining Hollywood's baby boom just yet: Lady Gaga.
"I'm terrified of babies," the singer, 24, says in a new interview with Rolling Stone. "I think, creatively, as a woman, you change once you give birth," she explains. "I'm totally not ready for that."
And the flamboyant star (real name: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) isn't spending too much time between the sheets lately, either. "Sex is certainly not, like a priority at the moment," she quips in her cover story.
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But Gaga admits that one particular lover -- a heavy metal drummer whom she dated just before stardom -- had a huge impact.
"I wouldn't have been as successful without him," she admits of their tempestuous, heartbreaking time together. "I've really never loved anyone like I loved him. Or like I love him. That relationship really shaped me...I sort of resolved that if you can't have the guy of your dreams, there are other ways to give love."
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The "Bad Romance" chanteuse also hints at a much deeper trauma in her past, but demurs on specifics. "You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people who l look up to you so much," she says. "I don't want to be a bad example. I'm not a victim."
Instead, she says vaguely: "There are some things that are so traumatic, I don't even fully remember them. But I will say wholeheartedly that I had the most wonderful mother and father. I was never abused. I didn't have a bad childhood. All of the things I went through were on my own quest for an artistic journey to f--- myself up like [Andy] Warhol and [David] Bowie and Mick [Jagger]."
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But all that squalor and self-destruction is now in the past, she insists. "It petrifies me," she recalls of her hardscrabble days. "When I think about laying in my apartment [in New York] with bug bites from bedbugs and roaches on the floor and no will or interest in doing anything but making music and getting high. So I guess I've come a really long way, and I have my friends to thank for that, and I have God."
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27babies are scared of her lol http://robbiejacksonbabies.blogspot
How can she say she has God when she is so clearly blasphemous?
Don't fret, Gag, as I'm sure most babies would be terrified of YOU!
i hope she gets rid of matthew williams.she doesn't need to keep running back to him.i sure the other guy would take her back.
Odd, me, with something in common with this odd Lady Gaga I am not terrified of babies but I have zero maternal instinct for them. So, it would be nice to have teen or adult kids now but glad I never had kids!!!!!
It's a little funny that she's terrified of babies, but I get where she's coming from. She's really into her career right now, and has no time for relationships or children. Maybe she'll change her mind one day. She's a great entertainer!
To the close-minded, apparently deaf readers of this article: Think back almost 30 years. People were saying some of these same things about Madonna, and now look where she is. Lady Gaga is a very talented and artistic individual. She expresses herself through her music and clothing and in doing so has reached out to many people. Everyone is different and has their own taste in music, it's not fair to trash her or anyone who listens to her. If you don't like it, simply turn the station. Good luck finding a station thats not playing her though----her 15 minutes, clearly, are not up. Those of us who do like her and respect her musical talents and what she has brought to the world would like the haters to zip it and turn the music up!
# June 22, 2010 - 1:36pm J. Taylor Says: Oh she's so sneaky in her put downs of Xtina. Besides hiding behind Perez. How would she know how a woman feels after giving birth? Some woman feel the strongest and most creative after giving life to another human being. ============================ she's still young and has her life ahead of her to have children. I don't think her comments was meant to be towards christina. Lots of young women do not want kids until they are ready.
# June 22, 2010 - 2:42pm t Says: you do change after you have babies - for the better. giving birth and having a child is the most artistic and creative feat of your lifetime and more imporant than her current music. =============== What about women who can't have children? What are you trying to say? And so what if someone does not want kids. That's her prerogative.
# June 22, 2010 - 4:00pm AMEKA Says: ohh and i forgot to mention that she is sooooooooo ugly and her 15 minutes will be up soon ================== She's been around for almost 3 years now. obviously she's past her 15 minutes.
Thanks JC and Jess!
There's nothing wrong with Lady Gaga that a good strong dose of humility wouldn't cure.
@HAL9000 that is so true. Plus Lady Gaga is straight up trash and she cant sing whatsoever nothing about her is interesting and vocals are horrible and just because you have been through break up in your life does not mean that you have had a terrible/horrible life everyone goes through it and she said it herself she has had a great life so she really has no one to blame but herself and there is no reason she should even have an article about her and this is what all celebrities say "ohhhh i have been through a break up so i have had a bad life" shes nothing more than a talentless ho
ohh and i forgot to mention that she is sooooooooo ugly and her 15 minutes will be up soon
Lady Gaga is a HOT MESS and SHE CANT SING she is horrible just because you have been through breakups in your life doesn't mean that you have had a horrible life its all her fought that she was in it in the first place and she clearly admitted it too. she had everything all celebrities are dumb this is what they all say "ohhh Ive been through really bad break ups so i have had the worst life ever please its such a joke.
Gaga has wrote so many hit songs for other artist before she went out on her own to perform. This girl is wonderful and her music is unique! Change is great!
HAL9000 - Can I buy you a drink!? you are right on target with your comment...THANKS! : )
We all believe in what we want to believe even if it's a lie or not. We all feed into that cause if we didn't we wouldn't be here making comments. We can't help it.
Because every woman who has ever given birth (except the ones who don't really care that they had a child) can tell you their view of life changes. Priorities change. Gaga doesn't actually have to give birth to hypothesize. Perhaps all she is trying to say, if she were to be a mother, her career would not be a great priority as it is now.
you do change after you have babies - for the better. giving birth and having a child is the most artistic and creative feat of your lifetime and more imporant than her current music.