Across five solo albums, Lady Gaga has yearned and ached for a man worthy of her adoration. Most came and went, including her previous engagements to actor Taylor Kinney in 2015 and talent agent Christian Carino in 2018. But at long last, Gaga seems to have found her Prince Charming in an ultraprivate Harvard graduate. In her latest Vogue profile, the singer spoke dreamily of fiancé Michael Polansky, confirming the pair got engaged in April after some rock climbing. “The missing piece in my life was having real love,” she said of her partner of nearly five years.
According to Gaga and Polansky’s account, they were introduced in 2019 by the singer’s mother, Cynthia Germanotta. Germanotta runs Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation and was introduced to Polansky — a close associate of former Facebook president Sean Parker — through his philanthropic efforts. “My mom met him, and she said to me, ‘I think I just met your husband,’ and I said, ‘I’m not ready to meet my husband!’ I could never have imagined that my mom … found the most perfect person for me?” Gaga remembered. Their first meeting apparently took place at Parker’s 40th birthday, where Stevie Nicks performed and Gaga and Polansky talked for three hours. “I didn’t know much about her and honestly wasn’t sure what to expect,” Polansky said. “I was struck immediately by her warmth and openness — she was so genuinely curious about what my life was like growing up in Minnesota.”
After the initial meet-cute, the two played phone tag for weeks, went on one date, and fell in love just before COVID hit. The couple quarantined at Gaga’s Malibu abode for a year, cementing their relationship as they read together, took walks around the neighborhood, and chatted over coffee. “It was really kind of special,” Gaga said. “I’d been so focused on my career since I was a teenager. And the gift of that time was that I got to completely focus on my relationship. I met this totally supportive, loving human being who wanted to get to know me — outside of Lady Gaga.”
“I had never met anyone like Michael. He’s so smart and so kind. And his life and my life are very different. He’s a very private guy, and he’s not with me for any other reason than that we are right for each other,” she continued. “But I think what I want my fans to know is that I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy … I struggled for, like, many years before that, but everything started to change because I had a real friend who saw the ways in which I was unhappy and why. And he wasn’t afraid to truly hold my hand and get to know me on a very deep level.”
Well, now I’m completely and hopelessly invested in this love story. I hope they have many yacht-bound summers ahead of them. Congratulations to the happy couple!
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