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by Sarah Nicole Prickett
Madonna in real life? More like death.
Of all Madonna's closet skeletons, it seems the scariest is Madonna herself. Photos released Friday of an exhausted Madge, exiting a Manhattan Kabbalah centre with daughter Lourdes, reveal a sagging skin-and-bones version of the aging superstar. Without makeup or a single ounce of fat, Madge's face looks at once surgically swollen and sunken, her eyes glazed and unfocused, and her body bonier than ever.
The pictures have gossips the world over wondering whether Madonna's roughest year ever-and her fiftieth, no less (the Hard Candy peddler's half-century birthday is August 16)-is finally taking its toll.
She's been plagued for months by rumours of ruined marriages: first her own, to English film director Guy Ritchie, then the failed union of Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and his wife Cynthia. Some reports suggest Madonna brainwashed the baseballer with Kabbalah; others say she bewitched him with more carnal charms, hosting him overnight in her Manhattan lair. Both Madge and A-Rod have repeatedly denied the affair, but last week, a cameraman claimed to have a sex tape of the two, which he'd graciously sell for mere millions. Unfortunately for him, no one wants to see Madonna naked.
Recently, Madge's beloved brother, Christopher Ciccone, published a tell-all book, "Life with My Sister Madonna," that portrayed the blonde icon as bitchy, self-absorbed and materialistic... wait, aren't tell-alls supposed to tell us things we don't already know? The real news is that the Material Girl is whispered to have ghostwritten the memoir herself, but even that's not much of a shocker, coming from the world dominatrix of media manipulation.
Meanwhile, pressure's on for the pop queen to live up to the stratospheric prices of her upcoming, globe-spanning "Sticky & Sweet" concert tour. Given her most recent, er, reinvention, perhaps "Stale & Sour" would be a more fitting title?
Madonna in real life? More like death.
Of all Madonna's closet skeletons, it seems the scariest is Madonna herself. Photos released Friday of an exhausted Madge, exiting a Manhattan Kabbalah centre with daughter Lourdes, reveal a sagging skin-and-bones version of the aging superstar. Without makeup or a single ounce of fat, Madge's face looks at once surgically swollen and sunken, her eyes glazed and unfocused, and her body bonier than ever.
The pictures have gossips the world over wondering whether Madonna's roughest year ever-and her fiftieth, no less (the Hard Candy peddler's half-century birthday is August 16)-is finally taking its toll.
She's been plagued for months by rumours of ruined marriages: first her own, to English film director Guy Ritchie, then the failed union of Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez and his wife Cynthia. Some reports suggest Madonna brainwashed the baseballer with Kabbalah; others say she bewitched him with more carnal charms, hosting him overnight in her Manhattan lair. Both Madge and A-Rod have repeatedly denied the affair, but last week, a cameraman claimed to have a sex tape of the two, which he'd graciously sell for mere millions. Unfortunately for him, no one wants to see Madonna naked.
Recently, Madge's beloved brother, Christopher Ciccone, published a tell-all book, "Life with My Sister Madonna," that portrayed the blonde icon as bitchy, self-absorbed and materialistic... wait, aren't tell-alls supposed to tell us things we don't already know? The real news is that the Material Girl is whispered to have ghostwritten the memoir herself, but even that's not much of a shocker, coming from the world dominatrix of media manipulation.
Meanwhile, pressure's on for the pop queen to live up to the stratospheric prices of her upcoming, globe-spanning "Sticky & Sweet" concert tour. Given her most recent, er, reinvention, perhaps "Stale & Sour" would be a more fitting title?
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I think we get really mortified by pics like these because we're so used to seeing celebs in their "made-up" state, she probably looks much better than the rest of us without make-up and the woman's 50 give her a break and especially given her situation at the moment.
