Lady Gaga Admits To Bulimia: ‘I Used To Throw Up All The Time’

by Julia Rubin | 10:21 am, February 9th, 2012

We suffered through many a high school assembly back in our day. (And by suffered through, we mean skipped.) But that was probably because people like Lady Gaga weren’t often popping in to talk to the student body.

LA’s Brentwood School held an awesome-sounding conference for young women last weekend. “It’s Our Turn” was organized by a group of senior girls and featured Maria Shriver (whose children attend Brentwood) and Mary J. Blige, as well as surprise guest Lady Gaga. The pop star spoke to the crowd — which numbered in the hundreds — about bullying and the problems she faced as a high schooler. She also admitted to a teenage bout with bulimia:

“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.”

Gaga explained she stopped making herself throw up because “it made my voice bad”: ”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.”

[HuffPost]

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