Someone Told Lady Gaga to Get a Nose Job—and She Shut It Down

Lady Gaga is currently doing some amazing things: Not only is she still a pop icon, but she's helming A Star Is Born, which, by all critical accounts and definitely not just judging by the first full song that's been released from the soundtrack is going to be a box office slamdunk. And although we've already discussed just how amazing her interviews for this movie are, there's another entry for that book—and it has to do with a very rude person telling Mama Monster she needed to get a nose job.

She told the Mirror last week that while she was on her own journey to stardom—we're talking right before her first single dropped—someone said she should get a nose job.

“Before my first single ever came out it was suggested I get a nose job, but I said, ‘No.’ I love my Italian nose,” she told the Mirror. "If people wanted me to look like a sexpot, I would look like the opposite."

Gaga was playing by her own rules straight from the beginning, it seems: “If they said, ‘Try dancing and looking this way,’ I would always flip it on its head and do it my way," she added.

She also opened up about her own struggles with insecurity—and about how A Star Is Born contains elements of her own life. Gaga said that at one point, she was playing three shows a night and performed at at least a thousand clubs before she got her big break with 2008's The Fame album.

"I spoke a lot to Bradley about my life, and they integrated part of my life into the movie, but in a very special way. I am forever grateful to him for that,” Gaga told the Mirror. “There were times early on where I wish there had been someone to help nourish me psychologically, to handle the change. When you become famous everything changes; you’re no longer a free being.”

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