Body Acceptance in the Age of the Selfie

Last week, gossip sites went nuts over the news that Lady Gaga had dared to appear in public with a few curves. The pop star was no longer sporting the bone-thin frame that she had in her most popular videos. To hear the tabloids tell it, she had “packed on the pounds.” After calling her fat, the speculation began. She was pregnant. She was stoned. It was all a publicity stunt.

The real story, according to Gaga herself, is that she has suffered from bulimia and anorexia for years. She recently gained 25 pounds, but said, “I don’t really feel bad about it. Even for a second.” She took to her website, a sort of fan social network called LittleMonsters.com, where she posted a series of near-naked photos of herself. She poses with her eyes closed, her arms outstretched, her ass popped toward the camera. There was no fuck-you, no plea to the media to leave her body alone. Just a simple caption: "Bulimia and anorexia since I was 15."

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