Lady Gaga fans were shocked on Friday night to learn that the pop superstar and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, had welcomed their first child together.While few details about the baby are known, it was confirmed that the 40-year-old singer is a new mother when she was spotted cradling a newborn baby in photos obtained by Page Six. But the baby news shouldn’t have been a complete surprise based on Gaga’s behavior in recent months.In addition to steering clear of the stage lately, Gaga has also been steering clear of the spotlight, aside from random run-ins with fans.The performer (real name: Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta) has also been telegraphing her desire to start a family ever since she got engaged to Polansky in April 2024.Now, the Daily Mail takes a look at all the signs heralding the secret arrival of Lady Gaga’s baby. Lady Gaga fans were shocked on Friday night to learn that the pop superstar and her fiancé, Michael Polansky, had welcomed their first child together; seen above in April in NYC But the baby news shouldn’t have been a complete surprise based on Gaga’s behavior in recent months. Now, the Daily Mail takes a look at all the signs heralding the secret arrival of Lady Gaga’s baby; seen above with Polansky in September 2024 in VeniceGaga’s latest tour, The Mayhem Ball, stretched out for more than a year, from its debut on April 11, 2025, at Coachella to its final show on April 13 of this year at Madison Square Garden in New York City.But the singer–songwriter has steered clear of the stage ever since wrapping up her tour, suggesting that she may have been occupied with other matters.Gaga has never been devoted just to high-profile tours, as she had an ongoing and highly lucrative Las Vegas residency that debuted in 2018 and continued on and off until 2024, even as she periodically interrupted it to go on tour.But the end of The Mayhem Ball tour marked an unusual period of silence for Gaga.She also signaled that something had changed with her persona life when she made a mysterious withdrawal from public life.Gaga hasn’t just eschewed high-profile red-carpet events in recent months, but she has only been glimpsed a handful of times in public.One of her last red-carpet events was on April 20 of this year, when she slipped into an elegant little black dress at the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2 at Lincoln Center in Manhattan.It was nearly a month before Gaga made what would be her final public appearance to date on May 14, when she made a splash at the premiere of Apple Music Live: Mayhem Requiem. Gaga has steered clear of the stage ever since wrapping up her tour, suggesting that she may have been occupied with other matters; seen above on May 14 in LA One of her last red-carpet events was on April 20 of this year (above), when she slipped into an elegant little black dress at the premiere of The Devil Wears Prada 2 at Lincoln Center in Manhattan It was nearly a month before Gaga made what would be her final public appearance to date on May 14, when she made a splash at the premiere of Apple Music Live: Mayhem Requiem The event, which was held at The Grove in Los Angeles, marked the debut of a concert documentary recorded at a performance on January 14, 2026, at LA’s Wiltern TheatreThe event, which was held at The Grove in Los Angeles, marked the debut of a concert documentary recorded at a performance on January 14, 2026, at LA’s Wiltern Theatre. Gaga seemed to signal a personal change when she ditched her now-standard blond hair in favor of long raven tresses.At the conclusion of the premiere, Gaga retreated for months to come.One source told the Daily Mail that even her friends had been left out of the loop about her disappearance.’No one has seen her or heard from her in over a month,’ the insider said. ‘Everyone in her circle thinks she eloped with Michael and is on her honeymoon now, trying to make a baby.’ However, sources revealed to the Daily Mail earlier this month that the singer and her fiancé have been lying low in Northern California’s Marin County, where Gaga bought a $10 million home.’There are tons of Lady Gaga sightings all over Marin, and everyone loves her; she has become a local,’ one resident told the Daily Mail.Most of those sightings don’t appear to have become public, except for one run-in in the area with a delighted fan in August who posted a beaming selfie of herself and Gaga to Instagram. Since then, Gaga has avoided high-profile events and has barely been glimpsed in public at all, aside from a fan sighting in August; seen above with Polansky in February 2025 in LA Gaga’s social media presence has also almost dried up. One of only three Instagram posts since her concert film premiere was a ghostly context-free photo of herself (above)In addition to her withdrawal from the performances and public life, Gaga has largely stepped away from social media in recent months.Following a barrage of posts publicizing her Mayhem Ball Tour concert film in May, she went radio silent except for just three Instagram posts.One post on August 21 publicized Gaga’s beauty venture, the skin-health research firm Outer Bio, while her next post on August 25 featured a ghostly, washed-out Polaroid-style photo of Gaga in a white top and long blond hair reaching down to her midriff.She didn’t bother to share any kind of message with the photo, and her last public post arrived on September 3, when she shared a commentary-free makeup tutorial video showing a close-up angle of her applying concealer, contour and lip liner.Absent from Gaga’s social media accounts was any kind of behind-the-scenes look at her personal life or her creative efforts, which had previously been a staple of her accounts.But the most obvious signs pointing toward Gaga’s surprise baby were her multiple comments since she and Polansky got engaged about how much she wanted to start a family.During an appearance in October 2025 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she said motherhood would be her ‘next starring role.”I would like to do many things, yeah, all of these things,’ she said after Colbert asked if she wanted to continue acting in films or performing on Broadway. ‘But, what I really want is to be a mom. That’s my next starring role, I hope.’ But the most obvious signs pointing toward Gaga’s surprise baby were her multiple comments since she and Polansky got engaged about how much she wanted to start a family; seen above with Polansky in London in 2024 During an appearance in October 2025 on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, she said motherhood would be her ‘next starring role’; seen above in April in NYC While speaking to the New York Times in March 2025, Gaga said she was ‘excited to be a mom,’ even though she ‘used to have a lot of apprehension about it’; seen above in September 2024 in LondonWhile speaking to the New York Times in March 2025, Gaga said she was ‘excited to be a mom,’ even though she ‘used to have a lot of apprehension about it.”I’m also kind of at war with myself sometimes as I get ready to, hopefully, become a mom soon,’ she added. ‘Like, today is wonderful, but the whole day has revolved around me. There’s an incredible amount of narcissism in this.’Gaga’s plans for becoming a mother may not end with just one child.’She has only one sister, Natali, and always wanted more siblings. So she wants her children to have many siblings so they can all lean on each other,’ a source told the Daily Mail.So far, there’s no word on when Gaga and Polansky plan to tie the knot, but in March of this year she indicated that they planned to wed ‘soon.’ During an appearance on Bruno Mars’s Romantic Radio TikTok Live, the Poker Face singer said via a recorded message: ‘Me and my fiancé have been traveling all year, but we’re getting married soon. We were hoping you could choose a special song for us.’ In her earlier interview with Stephen Colbert, Gaga couldn’t help but sing her fiancé’s praises.’He’s my best friend in the whole world,’ she said of Polansky, adding that he ’empowered me as a woman in music with a beautiful partner that has my back every day.”He just blew me away from the minute that I met him,’ Gaga continued. ‘He always, I think, really saw me and I think I always really saw him.’Back in October of 2024, the occasional actress told Jimmy Kimmel that she and Polansky were considering an elopement involving ‘just going to a courthouse, just the two of us, and ordering Chinese food.’