Here are some photos of Madonna in Paris and Milan over the past few days. I think the dark-haired guy is her bodyguard? But he totally looks like boyfriend material. That’s her type, for the most part. Dark haired, dark-eyed, tall, young, fit men. He even gives me a vintage Carlos Leon vibe. Speaking of Carlos Leon, while Madonna has been promoting her album, she’s been chatting a lot about their daughter Lourdes. I sort of feel for Madonna in one respect: she’s going through some major empty nest drama now that Lourdes is in college. Madonna still has three younger children, but Lola was her girl, her first-born, and Madge misses her like crazy. Anyway, Madonna has been talking about mothering teenagers and what she says to them about drugs and clothes.
What Lola thinks of Madonna’s style: “If no one’s around [Lourdes] will definitely give me the once over and say, ‘Oh, mum, you are not leaving the house like that!’ She did take a picture of my butt sticking out and sent it back to me and said, ‘Mom, really?’ and I said it was a wardrobe malfunction. I swear. She left it at that.”
What she tells her kids about drugs & alcohol: “I just ask my daughter to make wise decisions and to do things in moderation and to try not to mix her alcohol. I am not going to say ‘no, don’t do it’ because that is just absurd. And it is not fair. Yeah, I did it. I am not a big fan of drugs. They just don’t suit me. The handful of times I have tried drugs, many many many many years ago, I just didn’t enjoy it. I wanted it out of me. I started guzzling bottles of water thinking that was going to end it.”
I don’t know, I think Madonna is giving her kids good advice? It’s the Absolutely Fabulous thing – the more wild the parent, the more straight-laced the kid. There’s nothing like your mom giving you permission to get drunk to make it no longer “cool.” I like the mom-advice of “don’t mix your alcohol.” Like the famous nursery rhyme, “Beer before liquor, never sicker.”
In these pics from Paris, I swear Madonna is trying to do the Johnny Depp-ratty-hat thing combined with the Pharrell Williams/Westwood hat trend.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
This is like the abstinence discussion. Your kid will have access to alcohol. Might as well teach them to be responsible about it.
Exactly. I can’t really criticize Madonna about this one.
Yeah, she’d be a fool to think her college-age daughter isn’t drinking. “Be responsible” is good advice.
Yea. This is solid advice.
And Lourdes has addressed this on her own before. She got a lot of her partying out early. Also that she comes off as a bit of a mother to her mother so she has a decent head on her shoulders.
Definitely don’t mix alcohol, when I was 18 it was cider and vodka. God, now I try now mix red and white wine. There’s an old saying don’t mix the grape and grain.
don’t mix drink and drugs either, :-p
Don’t judge. I sometimes mix red & white wine because it’s a more intense buzz than white wine alone. Wine, it’s how classy ladies get wasted.
Oh, Madonna. You’re not like other moms. You’re the cool mom. No, more like the cool aunt. Or actually, older sister. You’re totally like Lourdes’ older sister.
She has said before that her children thought she’s too strict. I don’t think she raised Lola like a sister would. Madonna was a fairly strict mother, as far as manners, grades, like she said take your plates to the kitchen, no laziness. She has a daughter who went away to college in Michigan, where Madonna went, not out in LA partying with the cool rich kids of other celebrities.
When she toured, Lola while in her teens worked in the wardrobe department for the dancers’ outfits, etc., behind the scenes during the tours, not just lounging around day after day. I compare Lola to all the other rich celebrity kids like Paris HIlton, Rob Stewarts’ kids, etc., and think, for all of Madonna’s faults, her kids seem to be her greatest achievement. She hates laziness and said her kids will work and be responsible and not trust fund kids.
Being honest with your kids about the stuff they WILL encounter and saying it’s alright to experiment but do it safely doesn’t make you a try-hard “cool mom”. People can dislike Madonna for a bunch of reasons, but she’s always come off like a very good mother.
LMAO, that’s a lie. Jayna already said most of it, she is super strict. Even Rocco has said so when they were on the Ellen show together. They weren’t even allowed to watch television and she definitely wants them to work hard. She was the strict parent and Ritchie the fun one (back when they were still married). That’s been a pretty consistent fact about her so no, not a ‘cool mom’.
It makes sense, she’s been raised by a tough man with strict values and she has a personality that wants to strive for perfection.
And her children still love her, that much is obvious. If there is anything that she does right, it’s being a mother to be honest.
I would be utterly mortified if Madonna was my mom….
It wouldn’t be rebelling. Madonna isn’t a big drinker. And she never drinks on tour except for a rare occasion. she’s a health fanatic. Never liked drugs. Only tried it a small amount of times. Madonna is a control freak. She is talking to a college age daughter about being responsible when out because she knows her daughter is out at parties and with friends and will drink. She’s having an honest conversation with her. The same will be with the other kids. She’s the last person to condone being a drunk or drug user.
Lourdes is not the rebel either. She is a perfect mix of her parents in the looks department but personality wise, I think she’s more laid-back and comfortable with not being the centre of attention like her father.
Although she’s is artsy, it’s not in the extreme extroverted way like her mother. Rocco is more like his mother. already being on stage and showing off on social media. Even as a little boy (Reinvention documentary, you probably have seen it), he wanted and got the most attention from his mom according to Lourdes and he was pretty wild too. He will be the one to watch when 2-4 years from now.
I think it’s good advice. I tell my kids “I don’t really want you to drink, especially when underage, but if you do, I want you to be careful, be responsible, and remember, alcohol poisoning doesn’t look good on anyone.”
Now that you mention him, I believe Carlos Leon was the only thing I really liked about Madonna. And Vogue. But it was the 80’s after all.
I wish my parents had told me that. Would have spared me a lot of time clinging to the toilet bowl throwing up
Not that I worship her or anything, but her kids are probably one of the things I like the most about her, if that makes any sense. And the advice is on point.
I agree. Madonna can be unlikable in ways, but so many things about her children is what I like most. When I read Lourdes was going to her mother’s college, the University of Michigan, and she was sharing a basic dorm room with a roommate, like the other college kids, I thought that was telling.
And seeing Rocco on tour with his mom the last tour, age 14, and he danced in some of the songs, was really a treat. He adores his mom. You can see it. And she said she told him if he wanted to do this that he had to work as hard as the other dancers in rehearsal and professionalism and no getting by slacking off because she was his mom. She was being interviewed by an interviewer she’s known over the years after the show one night. And she was sitting on the floor, chatting, cooling down. Rocco kept coming in there wanting to hang out and listen, and the interviewer said Madonna would make him go brush his teeth and do other things mothers do before he could come sit down. The interviewer said it was sweet the way Rocco wanted to come sit and be with his mom, though, even during an interview.
She teaches her children a strong work ethic, which is important for a celebrity kid, because many are handed too much and expected too little of.
Can I have a link for that interview, I remember it as I saw it but I cannot find it anymore.
edit: found it: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvd0sl_luciano-huck-interview-with-a-madonna-caldeirao-do-huck-globo_music
yeah you can say a lot of things about Madonna, but you can never deny that she works HARD! and if she was my mum I would probably be scared shitless every time I did something wrong, hahah
@Artemis, that’s the interview. I thought he was 14 during the tour. She said in the clip he’s 12 then. Hard to believe he was 12 back then in her show and had such confidence on stage
. I had forgotten they did the interview on the floor in her hotel suite’s bathroom. Rocco was so cute the way he liked hanging out with his mother. I thought it was in Brazil. But the interview was in Miami, in anticipation of her next leg of the tour, South America.
She looked exhausted after her show but very relaxed.
I think she’s done more drugs than she says she has done. I just think she hides and keeps it secret better than other celebs.
I would be much more focused on safety. I think the most important thing is don’t drink and drive. She probably said that, too, but I would put that before don’t mix alcohol, though that’s pretty good advice at any age.
I like Madge’s rejection of the ‘friend, not parent’ thing. Hope she told Lourdes why mixing booze is daft: you get really blœdy sick, and not that it’s awful, wild behaviour!
Dig the hat, hope she gets her man. 🙂
My mom wasn’t wild (okay maybe a little bit) and she gave me the same advice. And “call for a ride if you need one. I won’t yell at you.” Golly, I have to say I think I like Lourdes –she must have a handful to deal with her Madge-mum.
I don’t see what’s wrong with the advise.
I haven’t been the biggest fan of Madonna in the past few years. I do like quite a few of her new songs because they are personal ballads. But this recent interview with Pitchfork is the most likable and very thoughtful and insightful Madonna I’ve read in years and the most relaxed and open, not stuffy also. There was a softness to her in this interview that you don’t see often from her anymore, at least I didn’t in any of the W.E. or MDNA interviews. She was actually delightful in this interview. I enjoyed her reflecting back on her beginning years in New York in the early ’80s.
http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/9604-pop-sovereign-a-conversation-with-madonna/
That bodyguard is HOT!!!!
“The handful of times I have tried drugs, many many many many years ago, I just didn’t enjoy it.”
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.