Lady Gaga has found her happily ever after with fiancé Michael Polansky.
The pair first went public on social media in 2020, when Gaga shared an affectionate picture of her and Polansky.
Then, in September 2024, Gaga revealed that their relationship progressed in an interview with Vogue in which she called her beau her “fiancé.”
The story was published on Sept. 5, a day after Gaga was seen sporting a large rock on her hand while on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival with Polansky.
“The missing piece in my life was having real love,” she told Vogue.
Polansky has had to adapt to life in the spotlight, he shared in a joint January 2025 interview with Elle — and said he’s faced difficulties doing so.
“Accepting that you won’t have the privacy others might have was the hardest part,” he said.
Polanski credited Lady Gaga, whom he calls by her real name, Stefani Germanotta, with helping him.
“Stefani’s comfort with it and patience with me has been amazing. Our relationship is probably a lot like everyone else’s. We just have to figure out how to do some of it in public. That makes it even more important for us to have strong friendships and close family relationships. We find normalcy where we can,” he said.
Read on to learn about Lady Gaga’s fiancé, Michael Polansky.
Michael Polansky is a philanthropist
Polansky has a mind for business and philanthropy. He’s the co-founder and executive director of the Parker Foundation, which aims to turn all cancers into curable diseases.
“We empower our visionary scientists and clinicians to tackle the hardest questions in order to accelerate the next cancer breakthroughs,” a message on the foundation’s website reads about its focus.
The entrepreneur also attended one of the best schools in the U.S. According to his LinkedIn profile, Polansky graduated from Harvard University in 2006 with a degree in applied mathematics and computer science.
Lady Gaga’s mom introduced her to her future husband
After meeting him at a charity event, Lady Gaga’s mom immediately know Polansky was the one for her daughter.
Gaga recalled the story in a September 2024 interview with Vogue
“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?” she said.
The pair spent time together through the COVID-19 lockdown.
“It was really kind of special,” Gaga said of that time. “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.”
Lady Gaga and Michael Polansky went Instagram official in 2020
Gaga and her beau went Instagram official in February 2020 when the singer posted a picture of her sitting on the entrepreneur’s lap.
She captioned the snap, “We had so much fun in Miami. Love to all my little monsters and fans, you’re the best!”
Vogue also noted in a September 2024 cover story on Gaga that the couple has been together for nearly five years.
Lady Gaga once called him ‘the love of (her) life’
Gaga referenced her beau during an April 2020 appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe“ when she was talking about the importance of mental health and how it relates to her Born This Way Foundation.
“With Born This Way Foundation, my mother, Cynthia Germanotta, and our co-founder Maya, who I love so very much, they are working with the love of my life on something for mental health,” she said with a smile during the interview.
According to the organization’s official website, the Born This Way Foundation aims to “build a kinder, braver world” that supports mental wellness in young people.
Michael Polansky has helped Lady Gaga write songs
In their joint interview with Elle, Gaga praised Polansky for helping her “loads” of times.
“You helped write, like, seven songs!” she said.
Polansky also told the magazine that “it’s been one of the most incredible parts of this chapter of my life, to live with and coexist alongside someone making art and being creative in ways that very few people get to experience. I think of myself as really lucky to have been there for it.”
Polanksy said that he’s enjoyed seeing his fiancée work on her upcoming album, “Mayhem.”
“This album was so much fun to watch her make,” he said. “She recorded it right down the street from our house, so we could easily walk back and forth from the studio. I spent a lot of time with her, bringing my laptop to work while she was there. What surprised me most was how fast she is. I couldn’t believe how quickly a song would take shape. Within five minutes, 80 percent of the song would have come from nothing.”
Michael Polansky’s ex once wrote a New York Times op-ed about him and Lady Gaga
In February 2020, Polansky’s ex Lindsay Crouse shocked the world when she wrote an op-ed for The New York Times about her his romance with Lady Gaga.
In the article, the journalist detailed her reaction upon learning that Polansky was now dating Gaga after their seven-year relationship, which “lasted all of college, and then a few years more.”
“How do you compare yourself with Lady Gaga?” she asked her readers. “Instead of thinking, ‘Why not me?’ when I see them together, I think ‘That was me.’”
Crouse’s essay quickly went viral.
Lady Gaga has bonded with his mom
In their Elle interview, the couple shared that they often cook dinner with Polansky’s mom, who lives nearby.
“She and I have built our friendship by sharing our life experiences with each other. It’s about the way we grew up, being a woman in the workplace, what her experience was like and what mine is like, and kind of tracking different generations,” Gaga said.
They’ve shared PDA
On social media, Gaga has shared a number of photos of her and Polansky together. On Valentine’s Day in 2020, she shared a selfie of them and joked about the smooches they shared that night.
She wrote, in part, “Happy Valentine’s Day!! ‘Babe, do I have lipstick all-over me?”
Then, one month after that, she posted a sweet snap of her wrapping her arms around Polansky while he adorably looked over at her.
But Gaga and Polansky’s sweetest PDA moment has to be when they attended President Joe Biden’s inauguration and gave each other a smooch through their face masks.
Fans think Lady Gaga wrote ‘Stupid Love’ about Michael Polansky
A few days before releasing her bop “Stupid Love,” Gaga posted a photo of her and Polansky on an airplane. She captioned the photo with lyrics from her song.
She wrote, “I’ve got a STUPID love💕.”
In the song, Gaga sings about how it feels to be in a happy relationship.
“You make such a gorgeous couple!!!” one person commented on their pic together.
Another said, “Y’all are cute.”
The couple revealed their engagement on the red carpet in September 2024
Gaga spoke with Vogue for her October cover story, which was released on Sept. 5, seemingly confirming she and the philanthropist were engaged.
“I had never met anyone like Michael. He’s so smart and so kind. And his life and my life are very different,” she told the magazine, who described Polansky as her fiancé. “He’s a very private guy and he’s not with me for any other reason than that we are right for each other.”
Gaga added that she wanted her fans to know, “That I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy. I feel like the last time they heard from me — in this way — was ‘Chromatica,’ and that album was about an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health.”
“I was in a really dark place. 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,” she continued. “And he wasn’t afraid to truly hold my hand. And get to know me. On a very deep level.”
Just a day before her interview was released, Gaga and Polansky dressed to the nines as they attended the “Joker: Folie à Deux” premiere during the 81st Venice International Film Festival at Sala Grande on Sept. 4.
The engaged pair appeared to have only eyes for each other as they — both coordinating in black ensembles — posed for photos.
While on the red carpet, the actor’s stunning and large engagement ring was visible on her left hand.
Lady Gage revealed the details of her proposal
During an October appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” Gaga they got engaged after her birthday in late March.
“He proposed to me right after my birthday. So my birthday passed and I was like, ‘Eh, I thought he’d propose, maybe,’” she said with a laugh.
Gaga said they went rock climbing on a trip together, which shocked host Kimmel. He asked if she had always been a rock climber.
“I do now!” Gaga said, before whispering to the studio audience, “I would do anything for love.”
The “Poker Face” singer continued, “He didn’t propose to me at the top. We climbed up to the top and we looked around and we took some photos, and then we went back down. And we were just walking back to the room and talking and he said — actually, it was very Michael to ask me, if he could ask me. He wanted to know if it was OK to propose before he proposed.”
Gaga said she responded, saying, “‘Yes! It’s so OK!’”
When Kimmel gave her a hard time about Polansky not proposing at the top of the mountain, Gaga clapped back, saying, “I think it was smart! It was safe, safe at the bottom.”
“He had the ring in his backpack so it was so super cute. He got into his backpack and pulled it out,” she added, mimicking the motion of unzipping a backpack.
