'Other pop stars who have had plastic surgery are harmful and promote insecurity... but my horns are just artistic' says Lady Gaga
By Daily Mail ReporterLast updated at 5:38 PM on 13th April 2011
She may have taken to wearing prosthetic horns on her face and shoulders of late, but Lady Gaga has insisted that she will never succumb to plastic surgery.
In a new interview, the 25-year-old called cosmetic procedures 'harmful' because they promote insecurity.
Speaking in the May issue of U.S. Harper's Bazaar, she revealed: 'I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have.
'Other pop stars who have had plastic surgery are harmful and promote insecurity... but my horns are just artistic' says Lady Gaga in this month's U.S. Harper's Bazaar
'I think promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification.'
She continued: 'And how many models and actresses do you see on magazine covers who have brand-new faces and have had plastic surgery, while I myself have never had any plastic surgery?
'I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.'
Gaga is defending her recent taste for the sharp, protruding 'bones' that she has been sporting of late.
'Not prosthetics': She discusses her latest look in the new issue of Harper's Bazaar, which she says are her 'bones' that 'come out when I'm inspired'
'They come out when I'm inspired.
'They've always been inside of me, but I have been waiting for the right time to reveal to the universe who I truly am.'
'I had all these number-one records, and I had sold all these albums, and it was sort of this turning point: "Am I going to try and embrace Hollywood and assimilate to that culture?"' she said.
'I put my toe in that water, and it was a Kegel-exercise vaginal reaction where I clenched and had to retract immediately.
'I ran furiously back to New York, to my old apartment, and I hung out with my friends, and I went to the same bars.'
Bizarrely, Gaga also believes that the late designer Alexander McQueen is living on through her music.
'I think he planned the whole thing: Right after he died, I wrote Born This Way,' the singer says.
'I think he's up in heaven with fashion strings in his hands, marionetting away, planning this whole thing.'
She uses her record label's decision to release the new single on the one year anniversary of McQueen's death as further evidence of her claim.
'When I heard that, I knew he planned the whole damn thing. I didn't even write the f****** song. He did!'
The full feature appears in the May issue of US Harper's Bazaar, on newsstands April 26.