Lady Gaga reflects on motherhood and plans for daughter Rose

Lady Gaga reflects on motherhood and plans for daughter Rose Lady Gaga and fiancé Michael Polansky are settling into parenthood with daughter Rose Bean Polansky, born via surrogate on June 9 in Los Angeles, while maintaining an unusually tight level of privacy around the pregnancy and birth. According to sources, Gaga managed to keep the news from reaching even her closest inner circle, with one insider telling Page Six, "Nearly nobody knew," and describing her confidantes as similarly caught off guard when the news eventually became public in September. Sources say the couple deliberately stepped back from work during the summer to focus entirely on their daughter, a decision consistent with comments Gaga made in an October 2025 interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, before Rose's birth, when she spoke about prioritising motherhood above her other professional ambitions. "I would like to do many things. All of those possibilities are open. But what I really want is to be a mother. That's my next starring role, I hope," she said at the time. A source told PEOPLE that Gaga was ready to slow down after wrapping her Mayhem tour in April, wanting genuine time away from the spotlight to enjoy early parenthood. Rose's name carries personal significance tied to two pieces of Gaga's musical history, Rose nods to her cover of La Vie en Rose from 2018's A Star Is Born, later commemorated in a large rose tattoo down her spine, while Bean is believed to reference activist and singer Carl Bean, whose 1977 recording I Was Born This Way influenced Gaga's own Born This Way. Gaga, 40, and Polansky, 42, first went public with their relationship in 2020 and got engaged in 2024, Polansky also co-produced Gaga's 2025 album Mayhem and received songwriting credit on several of its tracks. The couple has continued largely avoiding public commentary on the birth itself, with sources describing their approach to raising Rose as centered on preserving as much normalcy and privacy as possible amid Gaga's fame.