She's never been conventionally pretty like the typical popstar. In fact I think that's why she was all costumes in the beginning, it worked to her advantage to not make people say who's this ugly popstar

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Question doesn't even make any sense

Yes, of course.

Gaga wasn't exactly pretty, but she still had something in that department. She wouldn't have had a career if she was super overweight.

Are they really real?

They look real, but I can't believe her condition was that awful

This thread

I mean, she's not the most obvious beauty but like most people in life, she knew how to work with what she had. Talent, good/catchy music, and an "acceptable" popstar body took her very far!

All the try-hard comments in here.

Yes. She had been hanging up upside down for 24 hours for that Louvre living art project and went straight to the Versace shoot with no sleep. They also use bare minimum makeup because they use photoshop like crazy.

I can't believe what I just posted but it is true.

Still sleeping

this thread is a huge mess

well I saw a thread with a link including hundreds of them and they are not much different with some pics they posted in here as I remember. If 'real ones' you mean the ones Versace used in their campaign, they are not that real actually.

She'd still have talent to back her up so it wouldn't matter. Same can't be said for a lot of your faves.

They are HEAVILY edited to make her look worse.