Lady Gaga Reveals She Had Bulimia in High School: Good or Bad for Her Fans?
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2012/02/10 14:00:00
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Lady Gaga tends to be refreshingly open about her struggles as a teen. But we have to wonder if her latest disclosure will help or hurt her impressionable young fans. The pop superstar attended a young women's conference last Saturday called "It's Our Turn" -- and opened up to Maria Shriver about having had bulimia in the past.
When one student said, "I struggle with body issues, and I know you're so confident in the way you dress. And I am wondering how you deal with such issues?" Gaga responded: "I used to throw up all the time in high school. So I'm not that confident. And maybe it's easier for me to talk about it now because I don't do it anymore," according to The Huffington Post.
Gaga continued: "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.' And he'd say, 'Eat your spaghetti.'"
She also related to the pressure girls feel to be thin -- and blamed some of that on mass media. "Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect," she said. "It's not real life. I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age. And it's making girls sick."
So what made Gaga realize she was jeopardizing herself my making herself sick? "It made my voice bad. So I had to stop," she said. "The acid on your vocal chords -- it's very bad. But for those of you who don't sing, you maybe don't have that excuse until it's too late. It's very dangerous." Will Gaga's openness help or hurt her fans, especially young girls?
When one student said, "I struggle with body issues, and I know you're so confident in the way you dress. And I am wondering how you deal with such issues?" Gaga responded: "I used to throw up all the time in high school. So I'm not that confident. And maybe it's easier for me to talk about it now because I don't do it anymore," according to The Huffington Post.
Gaga continued: "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.' And he'd say, 'Eat your spaghetti.'"
She also related to the pressure girls feel to be thin -- and blamed some of that on mass media. "Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect," she said. "It's not real life. I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age. And it's making girls sick."
So what made Gaga realize she was jeopardizing herself my making herself sick? "It made my voice bad. So I had to stop," she said. "The acid on your vocal chords -- it's very bad. But for those of you who don't sing, you maybe don't have that excuse until it's too late. It's very dangerous." Will Gaga's openness help or hurt her fans, especially young girls?
1) It's pretty irrelevant
2) It's somewhat hard to copy an eating disorder.