Lady Gaga criticizes her Glamour cover for being 'too perfect'

By Margot Peppers

PUBLISHED: 13:51 EST, 13 November 2013 | UPDATED: 14:57 EST, 13 November 2013

Lady Gaga has hit out at Glamour magazine for depicting her as 'too perfect' on the cover of the December issue.

The 27-year-old singer was at Glamour's annual Women of the Year ceremony on Monday evening when she made the controversial statement against the very magazine giving her an award.

'I felt my skin looked too perfect. I felt my hair looked too soft,' she said of the image, adding: 'I do not look like this when I wake up in the morning.'

On the cover, Lady Gaga - who sometimes shares make-up free selfies on Instagram - does indeed have flawless skin, apparently wearing just subtle blush and light pink lipstick.

Her long blonde hair falls in crimped waves, and she is hunched over in a position that highlights her small waist.

But while the cover photo put her in a flattering light, Lady Gaga said it was misleading, and that Glamour - as well as the magazine industry as a whole - needs to address this persistent problem.

'It is fair to write about the change in your magazines,' she said. 'But what I want to see is the change on your covers. . .When the covers change, that's when culture changes.'

Appealing to her Little Monsters, she urged women to 'fight back against the forces that make them feel like they're not beautiful'.

She then went on to say that should would have liked to see Malala Yousafzai, who was also honored at the event, on the cover instead.

The outspoken singer wore a white suit covered in pearls for the event, with ghostly pale make-up, a frizzy mane of hair and her signature sky-high platform shoes.

Other women honored at the ceremony at New York's Carnegie Hall included Barbra Streisand, Melinda Gate and Hillary Clinton.

This isn't the first time Lady Gaga has been part of a discussion about Photoshopping women on magazine covers.

Eyebrows were raised in 2012 when she appeared on the cover of Vogue's September issue with unrealistic proportions that appeared digitally altered.

The retouching was made all the more obvious when a behind-the-scenes video of the cover shoot was released, showing how she looked in real life before the picture was edited.