Lady Gaga Reveals Why She Thinks It's 'Fun to Embrace the Challenge of Being a 38-Year-Old Pop Star'

Mar. 15, 2025

Lady Gaga in September 2024.Photo:Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty

Elisabetta A. Villa/Getty

Lady Gagais aging with pride.

In a new interview withBuzzfeed Canadato promote her upcoming filmJoker: Folie à Deux, the Grammy and Oscar winner opened up about why she enjoys being a 38-year-old pop superstar — as well as the difficulties that come along with the position.

Predicting what the next 15 years of her life will look like, Gaga referenced her fiancé,Michael Polansky, as she said, “I am so happy to be in love, and I’m so excited to have a family, so that’s definitely number one. But also, I really believe in the ability to grow as a person.”

“I think that feeling can give everybody hope, and I just want to keep growing, too,” said the “Bad Romance” singer-songwriter. “And also, I’m 38 years old, and it’s kind of fun to embrace the challenge of being a 38-year-old pop star and figuring out who I want to be now and what I want to say because I really love women.”

Gaga then declared, “I really want to be a voice that deserves to be part of our community.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, theA Star Is Bornactress reminisced on writingThe Manifesto of Little Monsters, a text shared with fans in the super deluxe box set version of 2010’sThe Fame Monster.

Lady Gaga in September 2024.Jeff Spicer/Getty Images

Jeff Spicer/Getty Images

At the time, Gaga wrote that she’s “something of a devoted Jester” within the “kingdom” of her fans — and she still connects with the statement today.

“I love being an entertainer — like, truly, in my heart, and I always have, whether I was singing for people eating at a table next to me and my family growing up in a restaurant, or when I made it to a piano recital or made it on my own stage,” she said.

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Lady Gaga in March 2023.Kevin Mazur/Getty

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Joker: Folie à Deuxcomes to theaters Oct. 4.

source: people.com