14 DAY TRIAL // She’s showing so much of her body even when she steps out for dinner that it would be difficult to think that Lady Gaga doesn’t consider herself the most beautiful woman on the planet. She doesn’t, by the way, but what she has that makes up for it is absolute confidence in herself.
Speaking with the latest issue of Glamour magazine, on whose cover she’s also featured, the pop star says what’s often been thrown in her face by those who don’t like her or her music: she is not beautiful, at least not in a conventional way.
“If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don’t know if I would be the algorithm,” she says, adding almost in the same breath, “I’ve always been OK with that. I’m not a supermodel. That’s not what I do. What I do is music.”
It’s this message that Gaga wants her fans to take from her music and from the way she builds and maintains her persona, the outrageous Gaga, the same one who steps out for errands in pantyhose, veil, wig, and a teacup.
“I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what’s happening on the outside,” the singer tells the magazine.
“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 adds.
Gaga proclaims she’s very confident in herself and that she’s accepted who she is, which is why she no longer feels the need to explain herself to others, whenever they question her choices.