Lady Gaga arrives for Glamour Magazine's "Women Of The Year" awards event in New York

Lady Gaga criticized the excessive use of Photoshop in touching up photos for magazine covers in her acceptance speech for Glamour Magazine's Women of the Year Award.

In her speech, the 'Applause' singer talked about her appearance in the magazine's December issue, and like fellow awardee Malala Yousafzai, she vows to use her voice to speak about the cover.

"I felt my skin looked too perfect. I felt my hair looked too soft," Gaga said. "I do not look like this when I wake up in the morning... I don't even look like this," referring to her disgruntled hair and pale make-up for the evening.

Gaga further commented overcoming physical insecurities as she urged young people to "fight back against the forces that make them feel like they're not beautiful," and called for the publications themselves to change because the way cover photos like hers are altered has damaging effects on readers.

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

She also expressed her deep admiration towards the 16-year-old Pakistani native, saying before the audience, "If I could forfeit my Glamour cover I would give it to Malala."

Back in her photoshoot for the magazine cover, the avant-garde singer talks about her insecurities, and whether or not she describes herself as beautiful.

"Not conventionally beautiful. If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don't know if I would be the algorithm. I've always been okay with that. I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside."