Lady Gaga shows off family snaps on Oprah

[Honey]

She is now famous for wearing crazy outfits and performing controversial routines.
But back in the day, Lady Gaga was just a normal little girl with a big dream.
In an interview broadcast on The Oprah Winfrey Show yesterday, Gaga showed off some family snaps which prove she once lived a relatively ordinary existence.

Gaga, born Stefani Germanotta, looks like any other young girl in this family picture

The 23-year-old singer, who shunned her natural brunette hair for platinum locks in a bid to make it in the music business, wore a typically outrageous outfit for her appearance on the U.S. TV show - showing she has no intention of returning to her younger look.
Gaga, who had twisted her hair into pointy spikes, wore a black outfit studded with spikes and, at one point, swung a gold, spiked ball on a chain into the windshield of a taxi on the stage.


The singer brandished a medieval-style mace and chain on the show and was sporting a bizarre porcupine-style hairdo

In one photograph the singer, who has now established herself as a fashion icon, poses with her beloved father Joseph Germanotta.
Gaga said despite her determination to become a successful singer, her dad never understood why she had to cavort on stage in skimpy clothes and change her appearance so dramatically.

Lady Gaga poses with her father Joe in this tender photograph

Gaga also took the opportunity to publicly pledge her support to the victims of the devastating Haiti earthquake.
She told Oprah: 'Haiti is still suffering,. And I was thinking earlier, because I was in New York during 9/11 and I always felt, the level of disaster isn't in the neighbourhood of what is happening in Haiti, but I just remember feeling nobody really understood.
'And I worry that young people don't know enough about what's going on there. I will say today that on the January 24th, the Monster Ball show in New York City, all of the money that I make in ticket sales and merchandise will go to Haiti.
'And on the 24th you can also go onto LadyGaga.com and any merchandise that you buy, the money will go to Haiti.'



The family album photographs show a drastically different person to the one we are used to seeing today

Gaga shows off her musical skills before she changed her look

The ever-busy singer cancelled a show in Indiana on Thursday due to 'exhaustion', and has now cancelled a further three shows.
Speaking about the decision to pull out of the performance Gaga wrote on Twitter: 'I've been crying for hours, I feel like I let my fans down 2nite.
'An hour before the (Indiana) show, I was feeling dizzy and having trouble breathing. Paramedics came to take care of me, and told me my heart-rate was irregular -- a result of exhaustion and dehydration.
'I am so devastated. I have performed with the flu, a cold, strep throat: I would never cancel a show just based on discomfort.'

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[AllieCat]

She looks really pretty in the photo with her dad. Hardly looks like her at all.

[Nova Mist]

WHO magazine (Australia's version of PEOPLE) ran this story this week, with more family photos. She was very pretty before she changed her look, and really still is now, under all the crazy clothes and makeup.

[buttmunch]

I have a theory that when the show is over she pulls off her wig, takes off the stage clothes and putters about unnoticable in public in sweats, with dark hair scraped back into a ponytail.

[darksithbunny]

Love her even more! Go Gaga!

[philbert_wormly]

I hope the best for Lady Gaga because she is a rather young lady who seems to have her act in gear rather well.

I will say today that on the January 24th, the Monster Ball show in New York City, all of the money that I make in ticket sales and merchandise will go to Haiti.
'And on the 24th you can also go onto LadyGaga.com and any merchandise that you buy, the money will go to Haiti.'

Love It!

[Karistiona]

I have a theory that when the show is over she pulls off her wig, takes off the stage clothes and putters about unnoticable in public in sweats, with dark hair scraped back into a ponytail.

I think you might be onto something, perhaps she's discovered the ultimate anti-paparazzi technique. Rob Pattinson take note!

[sluce]

I have a theory that when the show is over she pulls off her wig, takes off the stage clothes and putters about unnoticable in public in sweats, with dark hair scraped back into a ponytail.

A real life Hannah Montana!

[pookie207]

So she really is female?

[WhateverLolaWants]

She looks very pretty without all the yuck.

I may not be a huge fan or her performances, but I think she's a talented musician and seems to have at least some of her priorities in the right place. Really, how many young pop musicians can say that?

She's an attention whore and it bugs the crap out of me, but she admits it pretty openly, so I can cope. None of us are perfect

Team GaGa.

[sharky]

In real life, she's very cool.

[fattymatty]

This love-fest can't last forever. Where's the Gaga hate? Come one! Remember Perez? She "cries for her fans" all the time. She doesn't wear pants on regular outings. I know you're out there!

[rollo]

Can't hate on her. She is a breath of fresh air.

[calcifer]

This love-fest can't last forever. Where's the Gaga hate? Come one! Remember Perez? She "cries for her fans" all the time. She doesn't wear pants on regular outings. I know you're out there!

i'm somewhere in the middle, i think. not hating yet, more indifferent for now. she's just another one in a really long line of boring mainstream popacts. i can't get worked up about that. there were others before her and there are going to be others after her. *shrugs* some of her antics are annoying, though.

[sweetness]

So she really is female?

She sure looks like a girl in those younger pics. Perhaps she is a hermaphrodite, and was raised as female? Or maybe she really is a bio female and uses a fake penis bulge to keep people guessing.

Not a huge fan, but I like some of her music. It's better than most run-of-the-mill pop, and she seems like a nice person.

I have a theory that when the show is over she pulls off her wig, takes off the stage clothes and putters about unnoticable in public in sweats, with dark hair scraped back into a ponytail.

I think you're exactly right.