Lady Gaga canceled a series of recent shows, purportedly due to “exhaustion,” but a radical diet that’s caused her to lose 20 pounds, may really have been to blame.
In the entertainment industry, “exhaustion” is often a code word for something else. It can mean excessive drug use, or in this case a potential eating disorder.
Lady Gaga recently confessed that she has to diet obsessively to maintain her svelte physique.
“It’s all about starvation! Pop stars don’t eat,” Gaga, 23, said.
Insiders claim the pop star’s handlers have been pressuring her to lose excess flab to look like a chic rock-star.
“She’s already lost about 20 pounds,” an anonymous source recently told tabloids. “She says she is always hungry. She isn’t doing a specific diet. She just isn’t eating.”
The 23-year-old singer shocked fans after she canceled a performance in West Lafayette, Indiana, Thursday (Jan. 14). She complained of dizziness, shortness of breath and an accelerated heartbeat moments before she was set to go on. Her opening acts were already performing.
Paramedics at the Indiana concert said she was suffering from an irregular heartbeat as a result of dehydration and exhaustion.
She announced soon afterward (Jan. 15) that her doctor has recommended taking more time off to recover, and cancelled three more shows.
Gaga recently revealed that she’s 5’7″ but other reports put her height at 5’1″. She says she weighs about 120 pounds, but if the latter height is correct, her weight is probably closer to 100 pounds.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, admitted having a drinking and drug problem during the time she was performing in Lower East Side clubs as an unknown.
In a new biography, she said she did “bags and bags” of cocaine before she became famous.
Why do people continue to try so many unsafe methods of weight loss when there is clearly better alternatives?