Lady Gaga struck back at tabloid
attacks on her weight, posting photos of herself wearing only a bra and panties
on her fan website Tuesday.
The singer's blog, titled "A Body Revolution 2013,"
invites fans to "be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as
society tells us," by posting their own photos.
"May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the
heinous," Gaga wrote.
Online publications have speculated about Gaga's
weight gain in recent months, which she has acknowledged to be about 25 pounds.
Four
photographs posted on her LittleMonsters.com site
Tuesday leave no questions about her size and shape, showing her nearly naked
from the front, side and rear.
The captions above each photo read: "Bulimia and anorexia
since I was 15... But today I join the BODY REVOLUTION.... To Inspire
Bravery.... and BREED some ... COMPASSION."
Gaga wrote that her "weight/loss/gain since I was child has
tormented me."
"No amount of help has ever healed my pain about it," she
wrote. "But YOU have. My boyfriend prefers me curvier, when i eat and am
healthy and not so worried about my looks, I'm happy. Happier than I've ever
been. i am not going to go on a psycho-spree because of scrutiny. This is who I
am. And I am proud at any size. And I love you, and want you to be proud in any
form you may take as well."
Fans began posting their own stories and images including a woman
who wrote about weight gain from lupus, saying she was "very self
conscious about my body but today I am inspired to be brave."
"I've had a hard year, I've been torturing myself with being
perfect and I felt I couldn't trust anyone around me," another fan wrote.
"I cried so much because I felt like I wasn't enough, and I only felt
loved by YOU, monster family. I still feel like this a lot of times. People
think I'm happy because I always smile, but they have no idea of how much I cry
in my room at nights and I feel so lonely."
Gaga warns her fans, whom she calls her "little
monsters," not to "look for kindness in critics, go where you know
the gold is. Here, in our hearts."
By Alan Duke, CNN September 26, 2012
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