Lady Gaga 'Planning Tattoo Tribute To Dad'

Lady Gaga's ninth tattoo will be very close to her heart - as it will be a tribute to her dad.

The singer confirmed that she will be heading to a tattoo parlour this week, in order to to show her father - who recently had open heart surgery - how much he means to her.

"I'm gonna get a tattoo for him this week; I'm gonna get a heart that says 'Dad' in it," she told Yahoo!

But her touched father seemed more concerned with his daughter running out of room with the new inking:

"I told him I was gonna get it and he got all teary-eyed and he said, 'Well, you're running out of real estate, so don't get it too big'."

Lady Gaga also admitted she funded her pop's heart surgery with many she earned from her album sales.