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This photo looks like a scan of a print out though - like it may have been printed in a newsletter or something hence the b&w. We still print in b&w because it's significantly cheaper, let alone in 1994
She went to HS with my cousin let me find out how old she is. *texting my mom* ok so no one answered me but she graduated in 2004. She went to covenant of sacred heart and she was in my cousins graduating class.
My entire life I thought I went to her HS graduation but I found out I went to her brothers HS graduation from Regis, not hers ☹️
Can your cuz confirm if she was bullied relentlessly or nah
I want to believe but I remember at the start of her getting famous she also pretended she wasn’t wealthy and not having her nyc rent paid by her parents. So I kinda doubt the bullying part when she pretended to have a more povo upbringing and life.
My cousin claims that she was never really around, she did her music thing that took up a lot of her time outside of normal high school. She did claim she was known for dating older. She does not believe that’s the bullying claim is the truth. But that’s her POV
Right, iirc she was bullied because she was *~weird~*, but I feel like she was saying that to be relatable. She seems like she was a normal teen, not an outcast.
for some reason in photo #4 i’m seeing a bit of amy winehouse. both beautiful women of course, but i really do love gaga’s ever evolving style. she’s never dull.
To go from 5 to 18 is crazy. She’s so beautiful and didn’t need anything changing IMO. Regardless of that, she has buckets of talent and I enjoy everything she does.
I do think she pulled it back a bit after 18 (from what I remember, not just these pics). I was glad. She's still obviously done a lot of work, but she looks more like herself again.
Looks like nose job, lip filler, jawline shave / reshape (or maybe just chin), cheekbone filler (then dissolved), cheekbone implants, maaaybe buccal fat removal, and fox eye lift, roughly in that order.
I don’t have a great eye and some of those changes could just be makeup / lighting / editing.
*Also possibly an upper bleph as one of her earlier surgeries. She appears to have gotten more visible eyelid real estate.
Yeah you’re totally right - there’s such a huge difference between pics 9 and 10. It becomes much more angular. Her eyes make a major difference too imo.
Yes BUT anytime people come on here with a huge list of procedures that a celebrity has done I side eye it. As a woman in her 30s my entire body has changed **so much** since I was a teen. My boobs and hips have grown, my face looks different (and not just the same but older - different. I’ve grown into it and that comes with changes!) and I just know if I was famous enough for people to give a damn I would be accused of a boob job, or an bbl, or a fox eye lift
…I guess my point is while I’m sure celebrities have gotten a few procedures here and there, the public does not give enough credit to the fact that people’s appearances naturally change a lot as they age.
ok i’ll get off my soap box. maybe I’m naive. maybe everyone is over presumptuous. the truth is probably in the middle somewhere
Every single post about a female celebrity here always always has comments on their face/work done/lack of work done. Aren’t people getting sick of it? I sure am.
Exactly. It’s always “I miss their old face” like be so forreal. I’m sure if everyone had the money to, A LOT of people would be getting work done. She’s 38! Who fucking caresssss. She still looks great.
Right? And no one ever mentions how much your face changes from your 20’s to your 30’s - I look fucking nothing like my 20’s at 35! My jaw is waaaay sharper, my cheekbones more defined, face more angular overall, considerably less cheek fat, etc etc.
Immediately everyone is like oh she looks different across a 38 year timespan so she’s definitely had *IRREVERSIBLE SURGERY LIKE HER JAW SHAVED AND HER BUCCAL FAT SUCKED OUT AND A NEW CHIN*, couldn’t possibly be what happens as you age!
I noticed during her Joanne era, when she was big sad, her face was more structured. She also had lost some weight since the C2C/ARTPOP era. Then again when she was getting ready to film for the joker her face looked like
It did then and shortly a few months after her face returned to a more rounder structure. Either way it’s just so annoying that’s what every single person points out. We get it, y’all.
beyond her music, she really is artistic with her fashion choices- I hated the meat dress at the time but it truly is iconic
it is wild how people tweak + alter their face till they are almost unrecognizable from their OG face... of course everyone should do what makes them happy, but it makes me quite depressed that we're losing such unique beauty in the quest of 'perfect' proportions. there's a lot of beauty in the imperfections, IMO
I totally agree, I’m so conflicted on my official stance on plastic surgery because I’m fully for people doing whatever they want with their bodies. But it’s SO depressing seeing these women all become an amalgamation of instagram face, which I think is a weird alien face in the first place.
The part where I’m VERY irritated with it, is this celebrities saying they didn’t get plastic surgery when they very clearly 10000% did (talking to you, Nicki Minajs sentient ass). It’s insulting to the public for acting like they are that dumb, but so detrimental to young girls who don’t know better yet and DO think it’s real and hate their bodies because they have a human sized ass, or a rounder nose, or thin lips, or a round jaw, etc
If no one has seen this, check out her NYU performance before she made it big. Its tremendous [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM)
https://preview.redd.it/dwsqd5nm1vwc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebed65e3027a7bc0da199bff1d5446d44eb2fa82
This is my absolute favorite look of hers ever.
Truly a chameleon and I know for a fact in 20 years her work will be even more appreciated.
Even now I wish we could experience something as new/fresh as she was back in 08.
How can one woman look like so many other people. It’s giving -
3- every nyc theatre grad headshot I’ve ever seen
4- amy winehouse and maureen ponderosa have a baby
5- the tour rep at your beach hotel they organises night events
6-8 and 14-16- the gaga we know and love
9- outcast member of the royal family.
10- Mel c
11- Donatella Versace
13- Hayley Williams
18- Rita ora
She is undeniably one of the most influential people in the world. She told my little gay ass it was OK to be gay. And I was living in Montana thinking Cher took all the gays to her island.
I don't know why but just swiping through this collage made me well up a little bit. I don't know why but her journey to where she has got to is one of the rare celebrity rises to fame that I just find such a marvelous journey to have lived through and experience in real time. From the highs and the lows, the passion she has with her craft to her quirks, everything about Gaga just warms my heart.
I love her so much. I’m not a big fan of pop music but I love her as a person. And I did love the work she did with the late great Tony Bennett. She has an amazing voice.
I love someone who can pull off avant garde fashion. I wish I could dress like that. She’s great. I also wish I could tell everyone to keep their unique beauty and age is a privilege and every wrinkle is a sign of a life lived….but I don’t get that part about Hollywood.
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The title made me do a double take because it looked like she had passed.
[удалено]
I never saw that JB had passed! Margaritas soon in his memory I guess.
It’s these b&w photos I swear!!! Giving me mini heart attacks :( Edit: spelling
Right!? People the proper way of doing this kind of thing is:1998-Present.
Me too
https://preview.redd.it/7evrc3tbsuwc1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=6b7cc709c962b8cc4b24ed0cbd3a53aa8b1a5ff6 1994, she was 8 years old.
I don’t see why people make these photos black and white. Everything was in color in 1994.
This photo looks like a scan of a print out though - like it may have been printed in a newsletter or something hence the b&w. We still print in b&w because it's significantly cheaper, let alone in 1994
She might be older than her official age.
Could be, but this looks like a first communion photo which typically happens at age 8 in the US.
Mine was on my 9th bday. Tbat birthday party was a blast!
No proof the pic was actually taken in 1994 though?
She went to HS with my cousin let me find out how old she is. *texting my mom* ok so no one answered me but she graduated in 2004. She went to covenant of sacred heart and she was in my cousins graduating class. My entire life I thought I went to her HS graduation but I found out I went to her brothers HS graduation from Regis, not hers ☹️
Can your cuz confirm if she was bullied relentlessly or nah I want to believe but I remember at the start of her getting famous she also pretended she wasn’t wealthy and not having her nyc rent paid by her parents. So I kinda doubt the bullying part when she pretended to have a more povo upbringing and life.
My cousin claims that she was never really around, she did her music thing that took up a lot of her time outside of normal high school. She did claim she was known for dating older. She does not believe that’s the bullying claim is the truth. But that’s her POV
Right, iirc she was bullied because she was *~weird~*, but I feel like she was saying that to be relatable. She seems like she was a normal teen, not an outcast.
She’s two days younger than me, which makes her 38. Don’t know that she looks older than late 30’s.
She could easily look early 40s but I think it's the plastic surgery and perhaps living with chronic pain. She looks great, though!
Lana would’ve told us if she was
There is a little bit of a Natalia Grace vibe to the photo lol
I can see that.
Jesus Christ the black and White picture and the years in the title almost gave me a heart attack.
Right? I had to remind myself that Gaga is not 26 years old lol
It’s hurts me that 1998 was 26 years ago
As someone who was born in 1998, it hurts me also.
It hurts me as someone who graduated from university in 1998.
DONT 4GET https://preview.redd.it/21x2zuwksvwc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d9250293b9b7306919c140092942cb28e0762b13
Wait what’s this about again I remember this somewhat 😭
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUUhYjX-ds&ab\_channel=adriigagaagiilar](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJUUhYjX-ds&ab_channel=adriigagaagiilar)
stefani germanotta you will always be famous!!!!
I wonder what happened to the people who made the Facebook group. Surely, no one knows!
more than famous. forever iconic!
for some reason in photo #4 i’m seeing a bit of amy winehouse. both beautiful women of course, but i really do love gaga’s ever evolving style. she’s never dull.
I think I read somewhere the reason she had blonde hair with bangs in 2008/2009 was to avoid looking too much like Amy Winehouse
https://i.redd.it/dhp8pytp6vwc1.gif I’m seeing Maureen Ponderosa.
YOU WILL CALL HER!!!
https://preview.redd.it/9szrzk04svwc1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=643b0ff6d0b061f7e1d16adc304cb4ec4b8313d5
I totally Charlied, but I’m running with it
She is Bastet
I thought so too!
i was just about to write the same comment 😭 i actually see a lot of amy in that pic
To go from 5 to 18 is crazy. She’s so beautiful and didn’t need anything changing IMO. Regardless of that, she has buckets of talent and I enjoy everything she does.
I do think she pulled it back a bit after 18 (from what I remember, not just these pics). I was glad. She's still obviously done a lot of work, but she looks more like herself again.
Did she get a lot of work done?
I mean, look at her lol.
Looks like nose job, lip filler, jawline shave / reshape (or maybe just chin), cheekbone filler (then dissolved), cheekbone implants, maaaybe buccal fat removal, and fox eye lift, roughly in that order. I don’t have a great eye and some of those changes could just be makeup / lighting / editing. *Also possibly an upper bleph as one of her earlier surgeries. She appears to have gotten more visible eyelid real estate.
The jawline is what stands out the most to me and makes her not look like herself.
Yeah you’re totally right - there’s such a huge difference between pics 9 and 10. It becomes much more angular. Her eyes make a major difference too imo.
I need a bleph so badly bc I have ptosis :( fuckin droopy sleepy eyes.
Yes BUT anytime people come on here with a huge list of procedures that a celebrity has done I side eye it. As a woman in her 30s my entire body has changed **so much** since I was a teen. My boobs and hips have grown, my face looks different (and not just the same but older - different. I’ve grown into it and that comes with changes!) and I just know if I was famous enough for people to give a damn I would be accused of a boob job, or an bbl, or a fox eye lift …I guess my point is while I’m sure celebrities have gotten a few procedures here and there, the public does not give enough credit to the fact that people’s appearances naturally change a lot as they age. ok i’ll get off my soap box. maybe I’m naive. maybe everyone is over presumptuous. the truth is probably in the middle somewhere
Thank you. I'm in my 40s now and don't recognize my own face in a mirror anymore. It's not due to wrinkles, just facial changes as I've gotten older.
I honestly feel like my face has changed so much from my teen years. I’m around Gaga’s age too. So idk.
I knew I’d see this as a top comment. Anyways, what a fucking talented, multifaceted artist!!
Haha, I read this as “multiFACED” at first, which is unfortunate, given your critique.
Every single post about a female celebrity here always always has comments on their face/work done/lack of work done. Aren’t people getting sick of it? I sure am.
Well, I'm getting sick of seeing celebs looking like AI generated robots.
I'm getting tired of seeing the same nose (generally speaking). Visual differences are beautiful!
Preach lol 🙏
Exactly. It’s always “I miss their old face” like be so forreal. I’m sure if everyone had the money to, A LOT of people would be getting work done. She’s 38! Who fucking caresssss. She still looks great.
I remember circa 2008 everyone dragging her for her nose. She can’t win!
Right? And no one ever mentions how much your face changes from your 20’s to your 30’s - I look fucking nothing like my 20’s at 35! My jaw is waaaay sharper, my cheekbones more defined, face more angular overall, considerably less cheek fat, etc etc. Immediately everyone is like oh she looks different across a 38 year timespan so she’s definitely had *IRREVERSIBLE SURGERY LIKE HER JAW SHAVED AND HER BUCCAL FAT SUCKED OUT AND A NEW CHIN*, couldn’t possibly be what happens as you age!
I noticed during her Joanne era, when she was big sad, her face was more structured. She also had lost some weight since the C2C/ARTPOP era. Then again when she was getting ready to film for the joker her face looked like It did then and shortly a few months after her face returned to a more rounder structure. Either way it’s just so annoying that’s what every single person points out. We get it, y’all.
She's so inspiring as an artist 
This video was SO fucking incredible. Lovegame too
She fucking is. I don’t care what anyone says. She’s always been a consummate artist.
I love how she’s such a chameleon, but I really wish the trend of lip filler would go away. Even the lip flips look insane to me.
Agreed I am so over it
The real shame of it is, if you look at her early pics, she had beautiful natural lips
18 is terrifying 
It was a shock. I've never seen that pic. Looks like she had a ponytail lift and it's settled or been reversed since then.
She looks like Lindsay Lohan post Mykonos era in 18
Fillers are the devil
Pic 3 is breathtaking
Easily my favorite pic. That hair color is stunning on her.
Why does it seem like every celebrity has at least one picture of Drake looking like a cornball doing some dumb ass shit in it?!
Cornball 😂😂 I’m gonna use this to describe him from now on, thank you
You gave me a hearth attack, I saw black and white pictures and years in brackets thought the worse
Her brunette hair and all is such a slay.
She just seems like a really cool person.
beyond her music, she really is artistic with her fashion choices- I hated the meat dress at the time but it truly is iconic it is wild how people tweak + alter their face till they are almost unrecognizable from their OG face... of course everyone should do what makes them happy, but it makes me quite depressed that we're losing such unique beauty in the quest of 'perfect' proportions. there's a lot of beauty in the imperfections, IMO
I totally agree, I’m so conflicted on my official stance on plastic surgery because I’m fully for people doing whatever they want with their bodies. But it’s SO depressing seeing these women all become an amalgamation of instagram face, which I think is a weird alien face in the first place. The part where I’m VERY irritated with it, is this celebrities saying they didn’t get plastic surgery when they very clearly 10000% did (talking to you, Nicki Minajs sentient ass). It’s insulting to the public for acting like they are that dumb, but so detrimental to young girls who don’t know better yet and DO think it’s real and hate their bodies because they have a human sized ass, or a rounder nose, or thin lips, or a round jaw, etc
I howled @ Nicki Minaj’s sentient ass
Dark hair definitely suits her better
Brunette is so her color
She looks beautiful with soft curls and brown hair. I love the look.
If no one has seen this, check out her NYU performance before she made it big. Its tremendous [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM51qOpwcIM)
Wow! Thank you for sharing. That got my Monday morning off to the right start!
https://preview.redd.it/dwsqd5nm1vwc1.png?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ebed65e3027a7bc0da199bff1d5446d44eb2fa82 This is my absolute favorite look of hers ever.
This look is iconic
Miss her old face, not a fan of her lips now
The brackets made me think she’d died DUDE you gave me a heart attack
2006: "that's a girl I sat in English 102 with." The very next photo: "oh, the aliens have landed and they're here to party"
such a unique gorgeous face! love her
absolutely no one has had the constant iconic style that she has had absolute fashion queen
I noticed Miss Liz jazzing it up a bit by wearing the same sparkly dress my grandma wore to see Liberace in the 80s.
Let’s not do years in brackets again please
I think she look the best as Stephanie.
Truly a chameleon and I know for a fact in 20 years her work will be even more appreciated. Even now I wish we could experience something as new/fresh as she was back in 08.
It’s so cool that Lady Gaga lived through the years where everything was in black and white. Her old soul!
instagram face claims another victim : (
How can one woman look like so many other people. It’s giving - 3- every nyc theatre grad headshot I’ve ever seen 4- amy winehouse and maureen ponderosa have a baby 5- the tour rep at your beach hotel they organises night events 6-8 and 14-16- the gaga we know and love 9- outcast member of the royal family. 10- Mel c 11- Donatella Versace 13- Hayley Williams 18- Rita ora
I’m really looking forward to seeing her act with Joaquin Phoenix. They’re both so talented 🙌🏻
What happened in 2022? That does not look like her
I wish she’d leave her perfect face alone
I fell so hard for Ally in A Star is Born
STEFANI GERMANOTTA YOU WILL NEVER BE FAMOUS!!!
I love her, but stop it with surgeries.
She looks so pretty with that chocolate brown hair color
She's beautiful and I feel like she has the most Italian face I've ever seen. I can picture the women of Rome looking like her 2000 years ago.
I miss her old face. 2012 Gaga was just...perfection
She looks stunning in every image but God damn her hair in picture 12 is amazing
I really hope she puts less of the costumery on her face .. she has striking facial features, she should let them stand out.
Wow, she's managed to make the ever-so tiny QEII look huge.
Hottest. Hot. Weird. Okay.
She’s such a babe
A true talent and beauty
Drake pre nose job
stefani germanotta will NEVER be famous
She has a certain charisma and charm, love her
Forever the queen of the world to me
Ha! She had a tanned Jersey girl phase. Glad to see she has embraced her fair skin now
She is undeniably one of the most influential people in the world. She told my little gay ass it was OK to be gay. And I was living in Montana thinking Cher took all the gays to her island.
What a talented, brilliant, incredible, amazing, show stopping, spectacular, never the same, totally unique artist.
She was so pretty. What happened?
I don't know why but just swiping through this collage made me well up a little bit. I don't know why but her journey to where she has got to is one of the rare celebrity rises to fame that I just find such a marvelous journey to have lived through and experience in real time. From the highs and the lows, the passion she has with her craft to her quirks, everything about Gaga just warms my heart.
Pictures 10 & 11 are some of her most underrated looks. She is absolutely stunning
Love her
Pic with the Lexus took me out
I just want to hear her introduce herself as Stefani lol idk why its so weird to think about 😂
i find her so incredibly beautiful
So italian looking i love it
I thinks she’s beautiful
I LOVE her look in pic 16. It’s so FUCKING COOL.
She's giving Mel C vibes with the brunette hair.
🎶 Italian girrrrrrrrls 🎶 (swoon)
Gotta hand it to her, she made "Trying way too damn hard" an artform.
What happened after 2008 ? 2012 look is good too.
I love her so much. I’m not a big fan of pop music but I love her as a person. And I did love the work she did with the late great Tony Bennett. She has an amazing voice.
She has so many bangers that defined my childhood!
I guess she found a way to become famous!
She looks so much like Amy Winehouse in slide 4
Loveee her and with all the fame she got I still feel like she’s underrated sometimes (at least her voice is)
She has always been so stunning
Um are we sure 18 is Gaga? It looks like an ai generated pic Madonna would put on her instagram so she can pretend that’s what she actually looks like
She gave us the best foundation and concealer, hands down. Gaga didn’t have to give us haus labs, but she did, because she cares for us.
She is so beautiful. Photo 3 is stunning. That must be a Juilliard headshot.
My cousin went to the all girls catholic high school with her in NY. She showed me a pic of her from the yearbook before
As a teen she looks like Allison Brie
Absolutely beautiful woman.
Why does the 2022 pic look nothing like her? Digging the Joker vibes of 24
Ahhhh her original face was beautiful
My mama told me when I was hatched Act like a superstar Save your allowance, buy a bubble dress And someday you will go far
What is going on in pic 9
Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous.
Picture 3 is such a beautiful picture
11 is her best look I won’t accept alternative beliefs.
For God sake I’ve got to start reading titles before looking at pictures I thought these were old pics of someone’s hot mom😂
12 is giving Cher. I love it!
😭😭😭😭
Omg. That 2004 headshot.
I love someone who can pull off avant garde fashion. I wish I could dress like that. She’s great. I also wish I could tell everyone to keep their unique beauty and age is a privilege and every wrinkle is a sign of a life lived….but I don’t get that part about Hollywood.
This is Jo Calderone erasure! Lol
Picture 12 though 😍
She’s giving off a real Veruca Salt vibe in that first picture for me 🤣
I'm bummed that she's more known for her blonde hair because I think she looks gorgeous as a brunette
Bjorks swan dress walked so gagas meat dress could run
Number 3 is so gorgeous , like classic 90s beauty.
Idk if we’re ever getting another album. She’s so into acting now. I have hope. But not a lot.
I feel like in pic six she kinda looks like sporty spice. ❤️
Call me a hater or jelly but I just don’t fucking see it at all in any of them there photos
How do you not have the meat dress
Omg she's beautiful in the first couple photos, pre-fame.
Paws UP!!!!
She was hot man, shouldn't have messed with her face
2008- Poker Face looks the best!
I thought she died omg y’all need to stop with these dates
What about Gary Gaga?
She looks VERY Italian!
It seems like at least 6-7 different women
Early pics are giving Amy Fisher
She’s gorgeous
Tate mcrae really resembles Gaga in her younger pictures, both so stunning
Her original face was so stunning and youthful. She’s still pretty but it’s sad seeing people lose their unique beauty
Love her
Baby gaga, I can’t 🥹