Lady Gaga posts nearly nude pics
By Alan Duke, CNN
September 28, 2012 -- Updated 1135 GMT (1935 HKT)
The singer is in bloom wearing this creation during 2013 London Fashion Week. Here are a few more of Lady Gaga's memorable outfits through the years:
Lady Gaga posts images to her littlemonsters.com blog, saying she was joining the "Body Revolution."
The recent images are not the first of the singer scantily clad. Here, she performs at the Staples Center in Los Angeles wearing a two-piece ensemble in 2010.
Lady Gaga drapes herself in pink on the catwalk at the Philip Treacy fashion show.
At the Lady Gaga "Fame" perfume launch, the artist embraces her futuristic side.
Lady Gaga prepares to kick off the Times Square ball drop at New Year's Eve 2012 in New York City.
The singer shows she was "Born This Way" as she emerges from an egg at the 53rd annual Grammy Awards.
Lady Gaga dons the infamous meat dress at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards.
With pearls scattered among her outfit and face, Lady Gaga attends the Fall 2010 Fashion Week.
Lady Gaga arrives at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards in a hula hoop inspired creation.
While performing in Paris in 2010, Lady Gaga's green and white attire resembled that of a character from the Muppets.
Lady Gaga surprised many at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards as she channeled her foul-mouthed, whisky-drinking, chain-smoking male alter-ago, Jo Calderone.
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
Lady Gaga's outfits through the years
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Lady Gaga tells fans "weight/loss/gain since I was child has tormented me"
- The singer challenges fans to "celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws'"
- Online publications speculate about Gaga's weight gain in recent months
- "My boyfriend prefers me curvier," Lady Gaga writes
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Los Angeles (CNN) -- Lady Gaga struck back at tabloid attacks on her weight, posting photos of herself wearing only a bra and panties on her fan website Tuesday.
The singer's blog, titled "A Body Revolution 2013," invites fans to "be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us," by posting their own photos.
"May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous," Gaga wrote.
Are we really ready to take a look at 'real women'?
Online publications have speculated about Gaga's weight gain in recent months, which she has acknowledged to be about 25 pounds.
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Four photographs posted on her LittleMonsters.com site Tuesday leave no questions about her size and shape, showing her nearly naked from the front, side and rear.
The captions above each photo read: "Bulimia and anorexia since I was 15... But today I join the BODY REVOLUTION.... To Inspire Bravery.... and BREED some ... COMPASSION."
Gaga wrote that her "weight/loss/gain since I was child has tormented me."
"No amount of help has ever healed my pain about it," she wrote. "But YOU have. My boyfriend prefers me curvier, when i eat and am healthy and not so worried about my looks, I'm happy. Happier than I've ever been. i am not going to go on a psycho-spree because of scrutiny. This is who I am. And I am proud at any size. And I love you, and want you to be proud in any form you may take as well."
We asked, you answered: Are we really ready to take a look at 'real women'?
Fans began posting their own stories and images including a woman who wrote about weight gain from lupus, saying she was "very self conscious about my body but today I am inspired to be brave."
"I've had a hard year, I've been torturing myself with being perfect and I felt I couldn't trust anyone around me," another fan wrote. "I cried so much because I felt like I wasn't enough, and I only felt loved by YOU, monster family. I still feel like this a lot of times. People think I'm happy because I always smile, but they have no idea of how much I cry in my room at nights and I feel so lonely."
Gaga warns her fans, whom she calls her "little monsters," not to "look for kindness in critics, go where you know the gold is. Here, in our hearts."
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