Lady Gaga discussed being nude for her new album, Artpop.

The album, which is slated for a Nov. 11 release, will feature Mother Monster in the nude. She also posed naked for for V Magazine's September issue. The issue will feature four different Gaga covers with 16 pages of nude photos.

Gaga spoke candidly about the nude photos, which she sees as art, not as porn. Lady Gaga spoke to Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live: After Show about deciding to trade in her famously crazy outfits for...no outfit.

"I don't find it particularly shocking in the scope of the artistic world," the pop star said of her nudity. "I understand maybe because I'm a public figure it may be considered [shocking] because it's nudity. In Europe, nudity is not nearly as conservative as it is in America.

While some of the difference may be cultural, it was still difficult to present herself without artifice, Lady Gaga said.

"I'm really proud of myself that I could take my clothes off and take my makeup off and just be there, because since I was 11 years old I didn't feel like I could. And you have seen me put on lots of wigs and lots of outfits and lots of theater because I was unable to do that," she added.

The Artpop experience, however, was differerent-she wasn't covering up. "With 'Artpop' I took it all off and I challenged myself to be able to transform in a minimal way. I hope that you can see the nuance in the transformation in the nudity between the different looks that I did on the four different covers," she told Cohen.

Gaga, who underwent hip surgery earlier this year, said she was proud to expose her body and be vulnerable.

"It was emotionally really taxing because I had to look myself in the mirror with no makeup on. I mean, how ... easy is that for you. It's still not easy for me. ... I needed to do that for me. I needed to know that I was willing to risk it all for art ... for fashion ... to prove to myself once and for all that I could look myself in the mirror and be proud of who I am."

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