Speaking out ... Lady Gaga at Young Women's Conference
LADY Gaga has revealed her battle with bulimia — and how winning it saved her voice.
She told a young women's conference: "It's easier for me to talk about it now because I don't do it anymore. I used to throw up all the time in high school.
"Bulimia made my voice bad so I had to stop. The acid on your vocal cords — 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."
Gaga — real name Stefani Germanotta — recalled how she started making herself ill after eating her dad Joe's favourite meals of pasta and meatballs.
She said: "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'."
Gaga told the Californian conference, hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger's estranged wife Maria Shriver, the eating disorder drove her to the brink of a mental breakdown.
And she blasted magazines and music video makers for tampering with pictures of her.
She added: "Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you, they make you perfect. It's not real life."
Gaga — who has just set up anti-bullying group The Born This Way Foundation — went on: "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."
She declared: "It's really hard. But you've got to talk to somebody about it.
"I'm encouraging you to know what you're worth.
"And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house — nobody is worth more than anybody else."
Via: TheSun
