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How Lady Gaga’s Mother and the Head of Her Foundation Spends Sundays

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As for Ms. Germanotta, one of her favorite acts is to pay anonymously for the person behind her at coffee shops. “It’s like being the kindness fairy,” she said. Ms. Germanotta, 67, lives with her husband, Joe Germanotta, 64, in a condo on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Together, they own the nearby Italian restaurant Joanne Trattoria.

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One thing I do religiously is check in with my mom. She’s 93 and lives in West Virginia. [...] Both my daughters are very close with her.

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My kids once asked me, “What’s your favorite day of the week?” I said Sunday, because it was always a true family day at home, doing homework and cooking dinner together. Sometimes that still happens if both my girls are in town. We’ll go shopping at Gourmet Garage or Fairway and cook together, usually something Italian. I call family dinner “safe space,” where you can have healthy conversations about anything, including mental health. My daughter developed issues in middle school, and the dinner table was a wonderful, helpful environment to address them.

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Another thing that can happen on a Sunday, especially this time of year, is work. We’re preparing our own list of 21 things we’re going to do. And I might go visit one of our partner youth organizations in #BeKind21, like the Ali Forney Center, which is a homeless youth center right here on the Upper West Side. One of my favorite things, in terms of what I do, is being with young people. It’s a privilege and a joy to work with them.

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I’m usually tucked in by 10, and I’ll do some more reading or meditation. Somewhere between 10 and 11, I’ll send my girls a good-night text.

 


Full story by Tammy La Gorce: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/03/nyregion/lady-gaga-born-this-way.html

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