Lady Gaga shops with her friend Dada and his baby in South Gate, California. Is Gaga showing off her maternal side?

In an exclusive cover story in the February issue of IN New York magazine, a 23-year-old diva explains how Stefani Joanne Germanotta became Lady Gaga.

With all her recent accolades and rise to pop superstardom, the young musical sensation admits she wasn’t always so popular. “I was a bit insecure in high school…I used to get made fun of for being too provocative or too eccentric…I didn’t fit in, and I felt like a freak.”

The Manhattan native, who got her name from a hit song by Queen, has come into her own over the past year. Gaga says she was born to perform. “I was always an entertainer…I was a ham as a little girl and I’m a ham today.” But the fame hasn’t gone to her head. “I’m a songwriter, performance artist, daughter and sister, but I’m also an Italian girl from New York.”

For Bob Cannon’s complete article, titled “The World’s Gone Gaga”, visit innewyork.com or pick up a complimentary copy of IN New York beginning February 1—found in-room and at concierge desks of the city’s finest hotels and residential buildings, on New York Water Taxi boats and Amtrak trains and at leading NYC retailers and information centers, including the Bloomingdale’s and Macy’s Visitors Centers, the NYC & Co. Visitor Center, the Times Square Alliance Information Center and the Visitor Information window in Grand Central Terminal.

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Don’t miss Lady Gaga opening up the GRAMMY Awards today @ 8PM on CBS! Gaga is up for 5 awards at the show, including Album of the Year, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Dance Recording & Best Electronic/Dance Album!

Updated the post with over 200 photos and you can download the video below!

Updates:
- GaGa just won 2 Grammy awards already for Best Dance Recording and Best Dance Album!
- GaGa opens the Grammys performing Poker Face/Speechless/Your Song medley with Elton John.
-GaGa loses song of the year to Beyonce

Lady Gaga And Beyonce Knowles on set of the music video shoot for “Telephone”. Gaga and Beyonce filmed acting, performance and dancing scenes inside a a desert road side diner on the outskirts of LA then the duo filmed scenes inside a truck named the “Pussy Wagon”. The truck is the same one used by Uma Thurman in the film “Kill Bill” and now owned by Quinten Tarintino who loaned it to Lady GaGa for the video shoot. Actor/Model Tyreese was also seen on set during Diner scene. The next day Lady Gaga filmed a female prison shower scene for the video.

We can finally show you the first pictures on set of the ‘Telephone’ music video. On these pictures you can see GaGa’s backup-dancers waiting and taking care of Yoko. On the second picture you can see the director, Jonas Åkerlund (Paparazzi music video) and on the last 2 pictures the shoe table.

More pictures from on set of ‘Telephone’ music video added, where you can actual see GaGa and Beyonce!

Lady Gaga signs a fans copy of the New York Post, then poses with him while wearing Mickey Mouse ear sunglasses outside the Rockefeller Center, NYC.

Lady GaGa arrives to Radio City Music Hall to perform in concert for her Monster Ball Tour. A special thank you to Josh Matteo for sending in his photo from last night!

Check out these 15 new outtakes from the David Venni photoshoot that was shot last year in London. Click on the thumbnails below to view the entire set!

Lady Gaga seen signing autographs for fans and growling in New York City. There is bruising on her legs and what appears to be a burn mark on her left arm.

Lady Gaga arrives at Radio City Music Hall on January 20, 2010 in New York City.