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Never-Before-Seen Images From Lady Gaga’s First Real Photo Shoot

Before she was Lady Gaga, Stefani Germannotta was just a 19-year-old waitress in the West Village. And that’s where she met photographer Malgorzata Saniewska, who shot Gaga’s first real photo shoot as a performer.

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Saniewska shared the images from the 2005 shoot, which have never been seen before this week, with CNN. She says she didn’t know Gaga very well — Saniewska was a bartender in the restaurant where the singer worked as a teenager — but that she remembers her being “the nicest girl ever.” So when she offered Gaga the opportunity to sit in front of her camera, they packed everything up and headed to her parents’ uptown home, where the singer put on high heels and draped herself over the family’s baby grand piano.

“The house was empty, it was just the two of us,” Saniewska said. “I knew she was a singer, so our focus was her and her very first piano. We just hung out in her parents’ living room, and the piano was right by the window.”

The girl in the photos is a far cry from the costumed entertainment behemoth we know and love today, but it’s cool to take a look back at what she was like right before she made it big. You can see a few of our favorite photos from Saniewska’s shoot below, and you’ll find the entire set here on CNN.



[CNN]



  • http://twitter.com/Darr247 Darr Darr

    She looks like she was a little… fleshier… when she was 19.

    I wonder if the owner of that baby grand knew she was gonna be putting her stilettos on it.

    Those blinds would do a better job of blocking heat from the afternoon sun if they were on the OUTside of the windows, in my opinion.

  • Anonymous

    Don’t put new wine into old bottles

  • Jeremy Collado

    If you would read the article you would know this was her own piano in her parent’s living room in the Upper East Side. 

    Also, I’m looking at the background. Nice spacious home, she has a terrace, she lives on the Upper East Side. And they own on a steinway piano! And she says she isn’t rich……SURE!!!!

  • http://twitter.com/TraktorPutra putra

    aku tak bisa menemanimu malam ini…

  • brunettes rock

    She looks so good with dark hair,,, she should keep it,,, too bad some people are so obsessed with blonde; be  yourself; your always touting that… :)

  • Anonymous

    She said she went blonde because when she was trying to get her career off the ground people kept mistaking her for Amy Winehouse.

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