Posted by Richard Head

Thursday February 11, 2010

LADY Gaga used to only wear make-up at bedtime.

The eccentric singer claims she always felt like a “freak” because her school’s strict rules forbade cosmetics, so she used to indulge in her desire to dress up before going to sleep.

“When I was young, I felt like a freak in school — and I had to put my make up on when I got home before I went to bed because I wasn’t allowed to wear make-up in school,” GaGa told WWD.

“When I walked around the corner and saw Boy George in the window of a MAC store, I said, ‘I feel just like that!’ Why is that attitude nowhere else? And RuPaul, and Pamela Anderson.…I said, ‘Gosh, I feel just like that.’

“That’s why I think MAC is so important; they cater to that inside of you that feels like a freak sometimes, that wants to raise your freak flag.”

The Paparazzi star — who is fronting a new campaign for the MAC Aids Fund — has also claimed she used to be incredibly insecure and has only learned to have confidence in herself through the support of her fans.

“I was so insecure for so long and my fans have believed in me so much that I have become this confident woman I want to bring back to them,” she said.

“I try in my own way to be a spokesperson and say, ‘Its OK if you don’t feel like a winner, or you’re a loser’. I wanted to win at the Grammys for my fans because you want to be everything they imagine you to be. “

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