Stefani Joanne Germanotta, best known by her stage name Lady GaGa, is one unique lady with a funky, flashy, independent personality that will not stop until achieving world domination with her music.

The 22 year-old has written songs for Britney Spears and The Pussycat Dolls before she decided she wanted to be in the spotlight too. So GaGa got a complete makeover: from an innocent confident brunette (view photo below) to a blonde bombshell and now she is set to become the most audacious fashion icon of this era.

Here are some highlights from Lady GaGa’s Fabulous Magazine interview:

On her natural success: “Some people are just born stars,” she says in her upmarket New York drawl. “You either have it or you haven’t, and I was definitely born one. Even as a kid I always had eyes on me, like bees on honey. I was always outrageous and I was always very smart.”

On being comfortable in her sexy body: “I have a strong sense of my own sexuality. I love the naked human body and I have huge body confidence,” she says. “I was working in strip clubs when I was 18. Girls from my background weren’t meant to turn into someone like me. I come from a wealthy Italian family, went to a good school [she was at the same super-rich Manhattan Catholic girls’ school – Convent Of The Sacred Heart – as Paris Hilton]. You’re meant to live with Mom and Dad until they die. I went against all I was brought up to be; I moved out of home, wouldn’t take any help from my parents [her internet entrepreneur dad and his business partner wife] and supported myself with waitressing jobs and stripping. My act was pretty wild. I’d wear black leather and dance to Black Sabbath, Guns N’ Roses and Faith No More. Very rock ’n’ roll.”

On the only love of her life, music: “My music’s never going to roll over in bed one morning and tell me it doesn’t love me anymore. I have a problem with rejection.

On becoming such a huge star: “I don’t do this for the money,” she says, “I don’t want to buy a flash car. I just want to put everything into my music and art. I’m going to get bigger and bigger.”

[images: Fabulous]