Don’t believe everything you see.
Lady Gaga may have been “Born This Way,” but she prefers to be photographed in an enhanced way.
Photographers covering an event last week had to agree to give Lady Gaga final approval before any of their images could be released.
They were told to “Smooth out her jaw line and thin her arm,” and “Smooth out and thin her legs,” according to one insider.
“They are all complaining she’s a control freak,” the event organizer told me.
Kevin Mazur, the Wireimage/Getty photographer who had the exclusive rights to shoot her shows at Roseland, which wrapped up Monday, admits he retouched his images and that Gaga’s management team had final approval.
“It’s like with any other artist I work with, and it’s very minimal because we want to get the photos out there right away,” Mazur told me.
He confessed he would remove, say, a drop of sweat, an errant lock of hair or a shiny patch on Gaga’s forehead.
Mazur raves of the singer: “She caters to the paparazzi like no other artist I’ve ever seen. Lady Gaga goes above and beyond putting on new outfits to make sure the paps have something every day.”
But other photographers, with less access, aren’t quite so happy.
Shutterbugs who were barred from the after-party for Lady Gaga last Friday at BPM on West 42nd Street were incensed that Vanity Fair contributor George Wayne got snapshots any of them would’ve killed for: The pop star tongue-kissing boyfriend Taylor Kinney and pushing her fishnet-clad buttocks in his face.
“Gaga and Taylor’s relationship is clearly not staged — their chemistry is palpable,” Wayne told me. “They could barely keep their hands off each other all night.”
And Gaga worries too much. She has no signs of cellulite.