50 Things You Probably Didn't Know about Lady Gaga

Ever since she first came on the scene with her big bow in Poker Face in 2008, Lady Gaga and surprised and wowed us with her outfits and music videos - but one things remains constant - her talent. Here are 50 interesting facts about Lady Gaga.

1. Lady Gaga’s real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta.
   
2. Lady Gaga's name was inspired by the Queen song, 'Radio Gaga'.
   
3. Her main nicknames are Gagaloo, Loopy, Mother Monster, Rabbit Teeth and Little Mermaid.
   
4. Her favourite colours are black and lavender.
   
5. Lady Gaga’s favourite cartoon character is Bugs Bunny.
   
6. She learnt to play the piano by ear at age 4 and started composing original ballads when she was 13.
   
7. She was a huge of My Little Pony toys when she was growing up. “I was obsessed with the idea of a creature that was born with something magical that made them the misfit in the world of the stallion,” she said.
   
8. Lady Gaga graduated from Convent of the Sacred Heart high school in New York City. It’s the same school that Nicky and Paris Hilton attended. It is also the school that appears in the TV show Gossip Girl (in which Gaga made a cameo).
9. In high school, Lady Gaga had the lead role as Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls' and Philia in 'A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum'.
   
10. Her father, Joe Germanotta, pioneered the installation of wireless internet access in hotels when he started the company ‘Guest WiFi’ in 2002.
    
11. Her favorite film director is Martin Scorsese.
    
12. She admitted that her first sexual experience was terrible. “I didn’t lost my virginity until I was 17. But I have to say even then I wasn’t ready and it was an absolutely terrible experience.”
    
13. Lady Gaga once appeared on the MTV reality show Boiling Points in 2005.
14. Lady Gaga was once cited by Chicago cops for indecent exposure for wearing hot pants in public.
    
15. She used to be part of a duo with performance artist Lady Stardust. They were called ‘Lady Gaga And The Starlight Revenue’.
16. She dropped out of New York University when she was 19 to pursue her music career, 'I thought I could teach myself about art better than the school could,' she tells Elle magazine.
    
17. She signed a record deal with Interscope Records on her 20th birthday.
    
18. During her early days at Intercope, she co-wrote songs for The Pussycat Dolls, Fergie and New Kids On The Block. She recently wrote two tracks for Jennifer Lopez’s new album ‘Love?’
    
19. Her natural hair color is brown.
    
20. What made her dye her hair blonde? She was once confused for Amy Winehouse during an interview so she dyed her hair dark blonde. 'I want to be known for my own look,' she told People magazine. She’s definitely achieved that.
    
21. Gaga also said in an interview that her hair was falling out due to over-dying it. “I need a chemical haircut because my blonde hair is falling out,” she told People magazine. Perhaps that’s why she’s turned to wigs?
    
22. Gaga appeared on a 2008 episode of The Hills. Just before her appearance, her cat-suit zipper broke adn it was fixed by ‘stars’ Whitney Port and Lauren Conrad.
    
23. The infamous meat dress she wore to the 2010 VMA’s was cheap. Peter Cacioppo, a butcher at Ottomanelli Brothers on New York’s Upper East Side, analysed the outfit and said: "There are no expensive cuts here, no real steaks. The best you’ve got is the flank steak on top of her head.”
    
24. The meat dress weighed about 50 lbs.
25. Lady Gaga often carries a purple teacup and saucer in public. 'I drank tea with my mom, [so teacups] make me feel at home,' she told People magazine.
    
26. The Fame Monster was the best-selling album of 2010 worldwide.
    
27. Lady Gaga studied with Christina Aguilera’s vocal coach.
    
28. She’s 5' 1" (1.55 m) tall.
    
29. Lady Gaga admits she smokes weed when writing music.
    
30. She loves to cook and says she is good at cooking Italian food.
    
31. Her track ‘Telephone’ was initially written for Britney Spears and it was supposed to be a track on her ‘Circus’ album, but it was dropped.
    
32. The diner used in the video for ‘Telephone’ is the same diner that appears in popular cop show NCIS.
    
33. Gaga made her catwalk debut at designer Nicola Formichetti’s Mugler fashion show in Paris in 2011.
    
34. Lady Gaga said she believes that Britney Spears is the Queen of Pop.
    
35. Her favorite book is Letters to a Young Poet, by Rainer Maria Rilke.
36. Her favorite drink is Jameson Whiskey on the Rocks
37. Her sister Natali Germanotta, who is a fashion designer and has made some of her craziest outfits, made a cameo in the ‘Telephone’ promo as a fellow prison inmate.
    
38. She loves her fans. She once sent out for $1000 worth of Papa John’s pizza for her fans when she saw a number of them waiting for her outside a record shop where she was doing a signing.
    
39. According to her PR aide Adrian, Lady Gaga won't leave her room without full-makeup.
    
40. Lady Gaga has 14 tattoos to date. The tattoo on her inner left arm is a quote from her favourite philosopher Rainer Maria Rilke and translates into: "In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spears its roots the answer and ask yourself; must I write?”
    
41. She has said that she overcomes feeling vulnerable by giving herself pep talks. “When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24 year old girl. Then I say, ’Bitch, you’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today’,” she told Rolling Stone.
42. Her favorite T.V. character is Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker, for "Sex and The City").
    
43. Her favourite song on ‘The Fame’ was ‘Paparazzi’ and her favourite from ‘The Fame Monster’ was ‘Speechless’.
44. She was bullied at school. When she made the cover of Vogue, she Tweeted: “They used to call me ‘rabbit teeth’ in school and now I’m a real live VOGUE BEAUTY QUEEN."
    
45. She’s a fan of Bruce Springsteen. “I’m actually really obsessed with Bruce Springsteen,” she said. “My father used to play a lot of Bruce Springsteen records when I was a kid and he was blue collar American.”
    
46. Gaga uses Great Danes in her videos (they can be seen in the promos for ‘Paparazzi’, ‘Pokerface’, ‘Love Game’, ’Eh, Eh’, ‘Telephone’, ’Bad Romance’ and ‘Alejandro’).
    
47. If her story were ever to be made into a movie, she said she would love Marisa Tomei to play her. ”I am such a Marisa Tomei fan, all my friends call me ‘Marisa’ when I get angry because my New York accent just flies out of my body.”
    
48. She wrote the song “ Born This Way” in 10 minutes. “And it was a completely magical song. After I wrote it the gates just opened… it was like an immaculate conception.
49. She lives by the motto “ Life is a performance”.
    
50. What’s the best advice she said she’s ever been given? "If you don't have shadows, you're not standing in the light."
    

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