Lady GaGa Says She Was Bulemic
February 10, 2012 5:47 AM Lady Gaga talked her battle with overcoming bulimia at a recent conference for young women this past week. Gaga urged girls to stop dieting and making themselves sick.
She said, “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. 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.’ It’s really hard, but you’ve got to talk to somebody about it. Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. 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.”
Lady Gaga said that she eventually overcame her eating disorder because it was affecting her career. 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.”
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