Lady Gaga looks uncharacteristically casual in jeans as she departs Venice with fiancé Michael Polansky after admitting 'finding true love' took away the 'pressure' she felt to wear eccentric looks

Lady Gaga flashed her toned midriff in a black crop top as she linked arms with her fiancé Michael Polansky on her way out of Venice on Friday.

The singer and actor, 38, looks uncharacteristically casual in jeans as she made a smiley departure with Michael, 46.

Gaga, who opened up about Michael's proposal on Thursday, flashed her toned abs in the casual black T-shirt and wore dark blue oversized denim jeans.

The hitmaker and Joaquin Phoenix - who left Venice shortly before Gaga - have been promoting their new film Joker: Folie à Deux at Venice Film Festival.

Gaga and Michael, whose engagement was revealed to the world in July this year, looked smitten as they left the Italian City.

In a recent Vogue interview, Gaga admitting that 'finding true love' has taken away the 'pressure' she felt to wear eccentric looks.

She said: 'I was on the phone with the guy who’s mixing my new project and I was giving him notes and then I noticed that there’s a hole in my pants.

'Back in the day, I would have felt a ton of pressure to be in full glam for you and be prepared to…perform.

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She also gushed over her 'kind' and 'smart' partner, before praising him for 'holding her hand' through difficult times.

She said: 'I had never met anyone like Michael. He’s so smart and so kind. And his life and my life are very different. He’s a very private guy and he’s not with me for any other reason than that we are right for each other.

'But I think what I want my fans to know is that I’m just, like, so happy. I’m healthy. I feel like the last time they heard from me—in this way—was Chromatica, and that album was about an absolutely horrible time for me with my mental health. I was in a really dark place.

Gaga recently revealed that Michael got down on one knee back in April after a day of rock climbing. 

She was first romantically linked the tech entrepreneur linked around New Year's Eve 2019 and later went Instagram official in early 2020, with the couple remaining relatively private about their relationship.

Wedding plans for the couple are underway and their legal plan is being negotiated.

And Gaga - real name Stefani Germanotta - told how it was actually her mother Cynthia who met him first and thought he was perfect for her daughter, telling the singer: 'I think I just met your husband!'

Joaquin and his fiancée Rooney Mara departed from Venice's Marco Polo Airport on Friday with their baby in tow.

The actor, 49, who attended the Joker: Folie à Deux premiere at the Venice Film Festival earlier this week kept close to the rest of his family as they prepared to head home. 

The couple welcomed their second child two months ago - they welcomed their first, a son called River, four months ago. 

The couple met in 2012 and became friends while working on the set of Her.

They began dating four years later.

Meanwhile, the name of their youngest child has not yet been publicly revealed. 

The airport snaps come after the actor attended the premiere of his new Joker film with his sister Rain on Wednesday. 

Attending the event, which took place during the 81st Venice International Film Festival, the siblings stood side-by-side while smiling for photos at Sala Grande. 

Folie à Deux will see Joaquin, 49, reprise his role as Arthur Fleck AKA Joker and is set for release on October 4.

The actor wore a smart black tuxedo with a white shirt, bow tie and a pair of sunglasses for the hotly-anticipated event.

Rain, 51, wore a brown velvet gown and donned stylish oversized shades as she posed with her brother.

The film is the much-anticipated follow-up to 2019's Academy Award-winning Joker, which earned more than $1 billion at the global box office and remains the highest-grossing R-rated film of all time.

The second instalment finds Arthur Fleck institutionalised at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker.

'While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love but also finds the music that's always been inside him,' a press release shared.

The last time that Joaquin played The Joker, Arthur Fleck, he had to drop three and a half stone. He went on a diet of lettuce, asparagus and apples. 

Five years later he has returned to the Oscar-winning role again – and says that he had to lose almost the same amount of weight once more, and is never doing it again.

Speaking at the Venice Film Festival he said: 'I'm not going to talk through specifics of the diet, because I just think nobody wants to hear that.

'But this time, it felt a bit more complicated just because there was so much dance rehearsal that we were doing, which I didn't have last time. 

'It felt a bit more difficult, but it is safe. But you're right, I'm now 49, I probably shouldn't do this again. This is probably it for me.' 

He added: 'I know I was responsible last time for talking about it, but it's difficult to do so. 

'That becomes your obsession because you're working the entire time to get to a certain weight.

'So then you end up talking about it, and then it just sounds like an actor going on and on about how much weight they lost.

'By the end of that run, I was so sick of myself and angry at myself for making such a big deal about that part because you just do what you're ****ing supposed to do. So this time I was like, 'I'm not going to do that'.