Lady Gaga welcomes first child with fiancé Michael Polansky

Pop star Lady Gaga has welcomed her first child with fiancé Michael Polansky. The 40-year-old Grammy winner and Polansky are now parents to their first baby together.

Motherhood has long been something Gaga has spoken openly about. In a 2019 YouTube video, she discussed her plans for the following decade and said she hoped to have children alongside pursuing more acting roles.

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“I want to do more movies, I want to have babies,” she said at the time.

She reiterated her desire to start a family in a 2020 interview with InStyle, saying she was excited about having children and looked forward to becoming a mother. Gaga also joked about the maternal nickname “Mother Monster”, which her fans have used for years.

More recently, during a 2025 appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Gaga described motherhood as something she hoped would be her “next starring role”.

“I would like to do many things,” she said while discussing her future plans. “But what I really want is to be a mom. That’s my next starring role, I hope.”

Gaga and Polansky were first linked in 2020 after they were photographed together at a New Year’s Eve party in Las Vegas. They later made their relationship public, including appearances together around the 2020 Super Bowl in Miami.

The couple spent much of the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic together while quarantining. Over the years, they have largely kept their relationship private while supporting each other’s professional and philanthropic work.

Polansky serves as executive director of the Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, while Gaga has been involved in mental health advocacy through her Born This Way Foundation, which she founded in 2012.

In 2021, a source told PEOPLE that the couple had also bonded over their shared interest in charitable work, describing Polansky as “sweet and supportive” and saying the two made a strong team.

Gaga confirmed her engagement to Polansky in 2024. She was heard introducing him as her “fiancé” to then-French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal during the 2024 Paris Olympics in a TikTok video posted by Attal.

The new arrival marks a new chapter for Gaga, who has previously balanced her career in music and film with her advocacy work.