Never one to shy away from the headlines, Lady GaGa has posed naked for the latest edition of the Rolling Stone.

The gaudy pink cover, shot by David LaChapelle, features a frizzed hair GaGa almost naked with bubbles covering her nipples and genitalia.

The 23-year-old – real name Stefani Germanotta – said she was jubilant when Rolling Stone editors told her about their idea. She said: "When they told me about it I nearly cried."

Inside the June edition of the magazine, GaGa also poses for another provocative photo where she stands semi-naked in her bubble corset surrounded by a mass of foam-covered bodies.

(by Scott Colothan)