So there’s a new Lady Gaga biography called Poker Face: The Rise and Rise of Lady Gaga. That’s all well and good, but in the book, Gaga’s old tour manager, David Ciemny, makes some pretty worrisome statements about the singer’s health. According to him, Lady Gaga has a habit of alternating between binging junk food and not eating altogether, and her eating habits put her in the hospital six times in 2009 alone.
I believe it, but mostly just because I tend to believe everything I hear about Lady Gaga. If I was at the mall and some preteen in skinny jeans jumped out of the Hot Topic and told me that Lady Gaga was downtown, naked and riding around on a tiger, I’d be all “shut up, kid,” but a decent part of me would be like “I can see it.” It just seems like she’s been trying so hard for the past year or so to make the world believe that she’s unique, a special kind of artist that the world’s never seen before, and the argument can definitely be made that at the root of all that is a girl who just really wants to be special and adored.
At the end of the day, if you love her or hate her, it’s clear that the girl’s got problems, and I’m just saying that I wouldn’t be surprised if this was one of them.
She wasn’t in the hospital because of her eating habits. She was there because of exhaustion. She did have a slight eating disorder when she was in college though, which is shown in her new video “Marry the Night”.