Lady Gaga has taken her penchant for shocking audiences to a new, repulsive level, allowing a woman to vomit all over her while she performed last week at the South by Southwest festival in Austin. Gaga’s set opened with a woman eating barbecued sausages in a provocative manner while a fishnet-clad Gaga sang her song “Swine.” Gaga was then joined by performance artist Millie Brown, who chugged a bottle of green liquid, stuck her fingers down her throat, and vomited green goo all over the pop star. Gaga defended the performance as “art,” but was criticized on Twitter by Disney star Demi Lovato. “As if we didn’t have enough people glamorizing eating disorders already,” tweeted Lovato, who has struggled with bulimia. “Bottom line, it’s not ‘cool’ or ‘artsy’ at all.”
Less than a year after announcing she’d had a preventive double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie has revealed she plans to get another operation to reduce her cancer risk. Jolie made the difficult decision to have her breasts removed after finding out that she carries the BRCA1 gene, which gave her an 87 percent chance of developing breast cancer. The gene also increases the actress’s risk of developing ovarian cancer, and since Jolie’s mother died of ovarian cancer, the actress has indicated in the past she will probably also have her ovaries removed. Jolie told Entertainment Weekly this week that “there’s still another surgery to have,” without specifying what it will be. “I’ll get advice from all these wonderful people who I’ve been talking to, to get through that next stage.”
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