Lady Gaga book released

Lady Gaga has her first official book in collaboration with fashion photographer Terry Richardson.

The book tells the story of Gaga's relationship with Richardson and is, of course, filled with photographs in true Richardson style – unfiltered and raw.

To celebrate the launch of the book, Gaga has put a clip of her reading the foreword on her official YouTube channel.

"Sometimes it seems as though I have waited my entire life to be photographed by Terry Richardson. With Terry, the relationship extends beyond the photograph, and if you're lucky, he will teach you something truly profound about yourself," she says.

"To say he is a free spirit is a tremendous understatement, and to say that he, or I, make people uncomfortable, is spot on," she muses.

The book is an impressive oversized coffee table book and certainly isn't something that should be put away on a shelf.

See below for Gaga's full reading of the book's foreword: