Lady Gaga predicted what she would be like as a mom nearly one year before reportedly welcoming her first baby.
“Disappear? I don’t think so. But look, I think music will be a part of our child’s life,” Gaga, 40, said on a July 2025 episode of The Howard Stern Show when asked whether she planned to take a step back from the spotlight after becoming a parent. “I also have to see what it’s like and what our kid needs, you know?”
Gaga has been engaged to Michael Polansky since 2024. News broke on Friday, September 11, that Gaga and Polansky, 42, quietly welcomed baby No. 1. (The couple has not publicly confirmed the news. Us reached out for comment at the time.)
While speaking with host Howard Stern, Gaga speculated on how her priorities would likely shift if and when she became a first-time parent.
“I just really want them to have a very safe and happy childhood, so you’re not wrong that that will become my No. 1 priority,” she added during her radio appearance after Stern, 72, guessed the pop star would go “all-in” on family duties. “You’re actually right on the money with that.”
Gaga was first romantically linked to Polansky in 2019 after the pair were introduced by her mother. (Gaga’s mom, Cynthia Germanotta, first met Polansky at a charity event.)
“I had never met anyone like Michael. He’s so smart and so kind. And his life and my life are very different,” Gaga told Vogue in September 2024. “He’s a very private guy and he’s not with me for any other reason than that we are right for each other. I think what I want my fans to know is that I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy.”
She continued at the time, “I feel like the last time they heard from me — in this way — was Chromatica, and that album was about an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health. I was in a really dark place. I struggled for, like, many years before that. But everything started to change.”
According to Gaga, Polansky “wasn’t afraid to truly hold my hand” and get to know her on “a very deep level.”
“I didn’t know much about her and honestly wasn’t sure what to expect,” he recalled to the outlet. “I was struck immediately by her warmth and openness — she was so genuinely curious about what my life was like growing up in Minnesota.”
