Lady Gaga may have come to fame by singing about bad romances, but her romance with fiancé Michael Polansky is so good that they’ve already discussed building a family together. So often, in fact, that it sounds like she’s already chosen a parenting style. In a new cover interview with ElleUK, the Grammy winner said she and Polansky talk “a lot” about how they want their future kids to “be their own people.”
“It’s such an intense thing for kids coming into the world,” she said. “And they’re told how to think and what to believe in and how to eat … I just kind of want to let my kids find out who they are.”
Whenever the day comes (no, this wasn’t a pregnancy announcement), it sounds like Lady Gaga will be a hands-off, free-range parent who lets her future kids take the wheel. Instead of forcing them to walk in her or Polansky’s [conventionally] successful footsteps, she will support them as they forge their own paths. And, honestly, that sounds pretty fitting for an artist who has always preached individuality. Can you imagine Gaga taking on anything other than a “you were born this way” approach?
It’s a message the A Star Is Born actress will reiterate when her kids come to learn about her career.
“I would want my children to understand that whatever my artistry means to them is totally up to them,” Gaga told the outlet. “I would never actually want to shape it or tell them how to think about me.”
“Maybe other than that I just did my best,” she continued. “And tried to stay true to myself along the way.”
She’ll even hold steady when they start asking about some of her more jaw-dropping moves. (Meat dress, anyone?!) “My kid might one day say, ‘Mom, why do you do these things? I saw a funny video of you dressed up.’ Most certainly that will happen. And you know, maybe it’s okay to say, ‘What do you think?'”
Writer Lotte Jeffs warned Gaga — who has more than a dozen Grammys, an Oscar win, and multiple Emmy nominations to her name — that parenting is humbling. “Kids will bring you down to earth with a thud,” Jeffs writes.
“Oh, I’m ready,” Gaga said.
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