Is Lady Gaga gearing up to become Mama Gaga? The groundbreaking artist, whose new album Mayhem was released on Friday, is also known for her brood of French bulldogs, two of which were famously kidnapped in 2021. But though the 38-year-old singer has been the focus of false pregnancy rumors as recently as last June, Lady Gaga (who is known in her non-professional life as Stefani Germanotta) has yet to embark on the creative project known as parenthood. But that might soon change, she says in an interview released today. The admission came during a conversation with the New York Times Magazine's David Marchese, who hosts the publication's The Interview podcast. In an episode that dropped today (the text version of which is also online), Marchese notes that during a pre-interview chat, Gaga “in a wistful way, said, ‘I would love to have kids one day,’" then asked if she had “any apprehension about having kids and still being able to be Lady Gaga.” Which is a question I sure wonder if he asks other people, by which I mean men! Can you imagine an interviewer asking wealth hoarder Elon Musk if he had “any apprehension about having kids and still being able to be Elon Musk"? Or Robert DeNiro, or Alec Baldwin, or any other high-profile man with a sharply defined public image? Me neither! Taylor Swift might have some of the same questions I do about that query, as well as this general conversation. The 35-year-old billionaire artist has also faced invasive speculation about the contents of her uterus since her earliest days of mega-fame, with the scrutiny only increasing as her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce has continued. After Gaga shut her most recent spate of pregnancy rumors down last summer via a post on TikTok, Swift replied in the comments that “Can we all agree that it’s invasive & irresponsible to comment on a woman’s body. Gaga doesn’t owe anyone an explanation & neither does any woman.” (Speaking of Musk, it was just a few months after that that Tesla's most famous investor unsettlingly threatened to impregnate Swift, saying via X—formerly Twitter—“Fine Taylor … you win … I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.”)
