Meet Lady Gaga, the albino carpet python celebrity whose retirement reveals what “aging gracefully” means for snakes.

But unlike her human namesake, she has never released an album, worn a meat dress or demanded a nude life-size doll with pink fluffy pubic hair. She is, after all, an 18-year-old albino carpet python.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Australian woman woke up in the middle of the night to discover a massive carpet python curled up on her. Rachel Bloor assumed ...

CANBERRA: When an Australian woman woke up from her sleep in the middle of the night with a weight on her body, she thought it was one of her pet dogs. To her shock, it was a 2.5m python. Brisbane ...

"Oh baby. Don’t move. There is like a 2.5-meter python on you." An Australian woman woke up in the middle of the night to discover a massive carpet python coiled across her chest after the snake ...

An Australian woman experienced a spooky midnight encounter when an eight-foot (2.5-meter) carpet python crawled into her bedroom and curled up on her stomach and chest. Brisbane resident Rachel Bloor ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rachel Bloor remained remarkably composed as she told her husband to remove their labradoodle and Dalmatian dogs while she did a ...

Rachel Bloor quickly realised the weight on her chest was not her labradoodle Nick Squires is The Telegraph’s Rome correspondent, covering Italy, the Vatican, Greece and the Balkans. He has reported ...

"I thought if my Dalmatian realises that there's a snake there... it's gonna be carnage," she told the BBC. A woman in Australia recently woke up in the worst way imaginable. Brisbane resident Rachel ...