Lady Gaga's daughter Rose Bean, born June 9 via surrogate, makes her first public appearance

For roughly three months, Lady Gaga kept one of the biggest secrets of her life: she had become a mother. That ended when paparazzi caught the 40-year-old stepping off a private jet in Los Angeles on Sunday, her infant daughter tucked against her chest and shielded beneath a trench coat, fiancé Michael Polansky at her side.

The child's name, birth date, and method of delivery have since emerged through a birth certificate reported by TMZ: Rose Bean Polansky, born at 11:19 p.m. on June 9 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, delivered via surrogate under the care of OB-GYN Robert Katz. Gaga has not publicly confirmed any of these details, and her representative has not responded to press requests.

The tarmac photographs — Gaga in a floral dress and heels beneath her trench coat, platinum hair curled, black sunglasses on — were the first wide-circulation images of the baby. Wearing a black hoodie, gray shorts, sneakers and a baseball cap, Polansky, 42, kept his look casual. Staff were seen carrying a car seat and one of Gaga's French bulldogs from the jet to a waiting SUV, according to the Times of India.

The Los Angeles arrival came days after Page Six published earlier photos of Gaga in a far more low-key look — pajama pants, baby in a front sling — during a stroll somewhere in Northern California. Those images first broke the news of the baby's existence. Since Gaga's Mayhem Ball world tour wrapped in April, the couple has largely retreated to a home in Marin County reported to be worth $10 million, with locals telling the Daily Mail and the San Francisco Standard that they have been spotted regularly at restaurants and coffee shops in Mill Valley and Larkspur.

The baby is a few months old and she has been a mom for a while, she just kept the baby news quiet.— Unnamed source

She has been in full nesting mode and has never been happier in her life because being a mother was a very large goal, even more than becoming a successful musician.— Unnamed source

The road to parenthood was not straightforward, according to Page Six. The outlet reported that Gaga and Polansky began trying to have a child together in 2024 — the same year he proposed — but that Gaga faced significant health difficulties along the way.

[She's] had a hard road to travel physically. There have been moments of giddiness and moments of despair. It has been so sad. It's a real tale of hard times, both physical and emotional, en route to this happy ending. She's had severe hip issues and a heap of other physical ailments, alongside everything she puts her body through when performing.— Unnamed source

Gaga has previously spoken openly about living with fibromyalgia, a condition that causes severe chronic pain and exhaustion, according to the Mercury News.

The name Rose Bean carries apparent significance. A large rose tattooed down Gaga's spine — gotten to mark her performance of 'La Vie en Rose' in the 2018 film 'A Star Is Born' — may explain the first name, according to the Mercury News. As for Bean, the Mercury News suggests it could be a nod to Carl Bean, the late singer, activist and founding prelate of the Unity Fellowship Church Movement, a liberal Protestant denomination in Los Angeles that served Black LGBTQ people and others who were marginalized. Carl Bean's 1977 recording of the gay anthem 'I Was Born This Way' is noted by the Mercury News as an inspiration for Gaga's 2011 song and album of the same name.

Gaga had been publicly candid about wanting children. In October, she told The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, 'What I really want is to be a mom. That's my next starring role.' A March 2025 New York Times interview found her saying she was 'excited to be a mom' even though she had previously carried 'a lot of apprehension about it,' and she described feeling 'at war' with herself as she weighed the prospect of parenthood.

Sources told the Times of India that Gaga is rarely apart from the baby, spending much of her time in the nursery and singing lullabies she has already written for the child. Both Gaga and Polansky reportedly took time off work following the birth. Even so, a source told the outlet that music remains inevitable for Gaga, noting she 'can never not make music' because her mind is constantly filled with songs.

Gaga and Polansky met in December 2019 at a birthday party for tech entrepreneur Sean Parker and went public with their relationship in early 2020. According to the Times of India, Polansky popped the question in April 2024 while the two were reportedly out rock climbing. In the weeks before the baby news broke, some friends had reportedly speculated the couple's absence from public life meant they may have eloped — a rumor that has not been confirmed.

Why it matters — The emergence of a birth certificate — and the first photographs of the baby — closes a months-long information vacuum around one of music's most-followed figures, revealing details about her family that she had chosen not to share.

Reported by pagesix.com, timesofindia.indiatimes.com, mercurynews.com, people.com