I'd say that applies to all of us.

Shocked that she would allow them to put this out there like that.

superspaceboy said:

Well she's not the only one who has had a bad magazine cover!! Remember this monstrosity from 2004?

i'm not sticking up for madonna...i really could care less about what she looks like or what she does to her face.

but...

the public is fucked up. y'all try to call her out for having plastic surgery done or getting botox or whatever, giving her all sorts of shit for doing that. then, when you see her away from the cameras and lighting and makeup and photoshop, you tear her apart for looking...normal.

it's not just madonna, of course, it's every celebrity. the public wants to feel better about their mundane existence or their own appearance so when a celeb looks great..."oh, she had a lot of work done" and when a celeb looks tore up..."oh, man, look at what she really looks like, damn!"

just an observation.

sassybritches said:

damned if ya do, damned if ya dunt

CandaceS said:

Oh, that photo is so embarrassing. When I first saw it, I remember thinking, 'Is Liza Minnelli pre-op?'

CandaceS said:

Oh, that photo is so embarrassing. When I first saw it, I remember thinking, 'Is Liza Minnelli pre-op?'

i'm not sticking up for madonna...i really could care less about what she looks like or what she does to her face.

but...

the public is fucked up. y'all try to call her out for having plastic surgery done or getting botox or whatever, giving her all sorts of shit for doing that. then, when you see her away from the cameras and lighting and makeup and photoshop, you tear her apart for looking...normal.

it's not just madonna, of course, it's every celebrity. the public wants to feel better about their mundane existence or their own appearance so when a celeb looks great..."oh, she had a lot of work done" and when a celeb looks tore up..."oh, man, look at what she really looks like, damn!"

just an observation.

CandaceS said:

Oh, that photo is so embarrassing. When I first saw it, I remember thinking, 'Is Liza Minnelli pre-op?'

Report: Alex Rodriguez in late-night visits to Madonna's apartment

BY GEORGE RUSH, SEAN EVANS AND TRACY CONNOR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Updated Wednesday, July 2nd 2008, 10:35 AM

Just friends? He went to her concert, she went to his game. Now reports of late-night tete-à-tetes between A-Rod and Madonna have sparked talk they're rounding the bases.

Yankees hunk Alex Rodriguez is reportedly so close to the Material Mom that he visited her Manhattan pad right after his wife, Cynthia, gave birth to their second child.

Madonna, already fending off reports her seven-year marriage to director Guy Ritchie is over, was forced to deny she and the slugger are sharing bedtime stories.

"[They're] just friends," her spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg, told the Daily News yesterday.

Rosenberg insisted that Madonna and Ritchie are not splitting up and scoffed at suggestions that Ritchie's arrival in New York this week was a surprise. "This business about him making a last-ditch attempt to save their marriage is nonsense," Rosenberg said.

In fact, after spending all of Monday rehearsing for her Sticky & Sweet tour, Madonna arranged a late alfresco dinner with her husband on the roof of their building, complete with the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Rosenberg said.

A friend of the couple also claims that Ritchie, 39, has been planning a huge party to mark Madge's 50th birthday in August, the Daily Mail reported.

Still, there's no question A-Rod and Madonna have gotten very chummy - especially since the 32-year-old athlete hired her guru, Guy Oseary, as his manager in December.

That month, he showed up without his wife at the Gramercy Hotel after-party for Ritchie's film "Revolver" and huddled with Madonna, Oseary and others.

At a United Nations benefit in February for Madonna's Raising Malawi charity and UNICEF, Rodriguez was spotted again with the pop superstar.

"This is Alex," she said to her daughter, Lourdes. "He's a baseball player."

"Maybe you can come and see me play sometime," A-Rod offered to the underwhelmed girl.

"She's not that into baseball," explained Madonna.

In April, after Madonna's Hard Candy miniconcert at Roseland, A-Rod seemed to beg forMadonna's attention at a party at The Box, even attempting to dirty-dance with her.

Cynthia, who endured a scandal last year over her hubby's out-of-town outings with a stripper, had given birth to second daughter, Ella, just days before.

Us Weekly magazine reported on its Web site that A-Rod also was a guest at Madonna's apartment in the days after the birth, possibly even the night after.

"All the doormen are talking" about the visits, said a source, who added that the baseballer stays as late as midnight.

If Madonna wants to keep the relationship under wraps, she didn't show it on June 22, when she attended a home game with Oseary - in A-Rod's seats.

Two dozen reporters and photographers were camped outside Madonna's stately Central Park West building as Ritchie left in midmorning with his assistant, apparently to have lunch at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel.

Madonna's ex, personal trainer Carlos Leon, showed up on a bike to whisk their daughter, Lourdes, off to lunch.

Madonna's other two children - Rocco, her son with Ritchie, and David, her adopted son from Malawi - left with caretakers.

Last night, Madonna and Ritchie held hands but said nothing as they returned home from dinner.

At Yankee Stadium, the $275 million third baseman had no comment. His mother-in-law, Evangeline Scurtis, said, "No comment. You can talk to Alex."

One player willing to weigh in was ex-major leaguer Jose Canseco, who has a history with both Rodriguez and Madonna.

In his memoir "Juiced," Canseco devotes a chapter to his brief romance with the singer in 1991. In his followup, "Vindicated," he claimed Rodriguez "was jonesing" for his second wife, Jessica.

Asked about a Rodriguez-Madonna merger yesterday, Canseco sniped, "That's Alex. That's what he does. He goes after people's wives. I guess he's trying to follow in my footsteps now with Madonna."

http://www.nydailynews.co...visit.html

But....for some reason this picture reminded me of one of the characters
on Saturday Night Live or Mad Tv, but don't remember which one.

I think the woman was acting as a little girl.

Maybe if Madonna dressed and acted a bit more "normal" on stage no-one would have a laugh at her expense when she's a little worse for wear. If she had a bit more dignity, like say Meryl Streep for example, no-one would blink an eyelid at any of her crap pics. But instead she's making music videos intentionally having obvious soft lighting to sex it up in a leotard Cher style with a man young enough to be her son, and flashing her saggy fanny flaps in our faces in every magazine at every opportunity.

I would over Madonna! Meryl can sing better live too.

10 years prior to Music

Oh well, now I wouldn't pay $300 to see anyone unless it was a one off once in a lifetime opportunity to see someone spectacular who hardly ever tours. I did pay that once to see Madonna and that was the last time because she is neither.

superspaceboy said:

But....for some reason this picture reminded me of one of the characters
on Saturday Night Live or Mad Tv, but don't remember which one.

I think the woman was acting as a little girl.

Ellie said:

i get what you're saying, but you gotta consider: who's gonna pay $300 to see meryl streep sing "like a virgin"?

Ellie said:

i wouldn't pay that for madge either. i'm just being difficult.

i don't think i paid as much for three days of lollapalooza (including radiohead, nine inch nails, RATM, etc.) as madonna asks for a concert ticket.

Anxiety said:

Is she riding a Mechanical Bull or popping out of a Disco Ball? I might go and see that. Wait..I already did!

i'm not sticking up for madonna...i really could care less about what she looks like or what she does to her face.

but...

the public is fucked up. y'all try to call her out for having plastic surgery done or getting botox or whatever, giving her all sorts of shit for doing that. then, when you see her away from the cameras and lighting and makeup and photoshop, you tear her apart for looking...normal.

it's not just madonna, of course, it's every celebrity. the public wants to feel better about their mundane existence or their own appearance so when a celeb looks great..."oh, she had a lot of work done" and when a celeb looks tore up..."oh, man, look at what she really looks like, damn!"

just an observation.