Lady Gaga’s Glamour Magazine Cover Makes Her Feel Ashamed; ‘I Don’t Even Look Like This,’ Says ‘Applause’ Singer About Her Photoshopped Cover

Lady Gaga does not feel that her latest cover for Glamour magazine is worthy of applause. Hailed as one of the magazine's Women of the Year, Gaga was tasked to deliver an acceptance speech. Just like her fellow award recipient Malala Yousafzai, the 'Born This Way' singer used her speech as a tool to voice out her real feelings about the cover.

For the pop icon, her cover photo is unjustifiable because of its excessive usage of Photoshop: "I felt my skin looked too perfect. I felt my hair looked too soft. I do not look like this when I wake up in the morning... I don't even look like this."

She encourages young individuals to defy the impossibly high beauty standards imposed by magazines. She likewise urges magazine houses to stop altering models in an unrealistic way as it sets up a damaging example to readers: "It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers... When the covers change, that's when culture changes." 

During the photo shoot for Lady Gaga's Glamour magazine cover, the 28-year-old singer spontaneously talked about her insecurities and how she described herself as "not conventionally beautiful."

"If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don't know if I would be the algorithm. I've always been okay with that. I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside," says the singer who recently shed tears for the death of her beloved dog, Alice.

Glamour magazine has not yet released an official statement regarding Gaga's comment about their photo editing schemes.