The pop star who sings of being Born This Way says she battled bulimia in high school.

The New York Post reports Gaga was at “It’s Our Turn,” a conference at the Brentwood School in Los Angeles, last weekend, where she talked with Maria Shriver for half an hour. During a post-interview Q&A, a girl in the audience spoke of her own body image issues and asked the singer why she is so confident, according to the newspaper.

“I used to throw up all the time in high school. So I’m not that confident,” Gaga responded, the Post reports. “I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night. I used to come home and say, ‘Dad, why do you always give us this food? I need to be thin.’ And he’d say, ‘Eat your spaghetti.’ It’s really hard, but . . . you’ve got to talk to somebody about it.”

Gaga, who is known for her outrageous—and often teeny-tiny—costumes, went on to say that she still struggles with her weight, according to the newspaper.

“Every video I’m in, every magazine cover, they stretch you—they make you perfect,” she said. “It’s not real life . . . I’m gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it’s affecting kids your age. And it’s making girls sick.”

Amen to that, sister.

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