Madonna fainted twice while performing in Bulgaria on Saturday. It seems kind of inevitable given her grueling tour schedule and, ahem – age. She’s massively fit, but she also reportedly adheres to a strict diet, one that sometimes hovers around a starvation-level 800 calories a day if her scheming personal trainer is to be believed. There have also been stories that she doesn’t eat meat or dairy products. That level of exercise coupled with not eating has got to take a toll. The Sun has a video of one of the incidents, and Madonna clearly faints for a moment while dancing to Holiday, and one of her backup dancers holds her up and revives her. She then goes right on with the show:
IT’S no secret MADONNA has a fitness regime that would make a Royal Marine weep.
But after collapsing on stage TWICE during Saturday’s Sticky & Sweet show in Sofia, Bulgaria, it might be time to take her foot off the gas.
Madge lost consciousness singing Holiday and had to be held up by a dancer.
Then, as she left the stage during Spanish Lesson, she passed out and fell over.
A source said: “Madge was really worried backstage. She had to sit down for a longer break than usual between songs.
“She refused to end the show or take a break after the Holiday dizzy spell. It turns out she’s suffering from exhaustion. She is anaemic.
“She was advised to postpone the last two shows in Israel for a few days, but logistics and stubborness stopped her. She’ll do them then take some rest.”
While in Bulgaria she took a dip with her tour dancers.
She is also pictured in the video for her new single Celebration, with daughter LOURDES.
No prizes for spotting the huge dig at her ex GUY RITCHIE – as she cops off with her new fella JESUS LUZ.
[From The Sun]
Maybe a big steak or some liver and onions would help Madonna keep her strength up, but I doubt she’ll ever injest something of such calorific proportions. This is a woman who once said “I would never get fat” as if gaining some weight would be the worst scenario she could ever imagine. There are much worse things than a little flab, and I would count health that’s so poor that you can’t get out of bed among them. Madonna is not my favorite person, but I wish her well and hope she recovers. She needs some rest and maybe this will be a wake up call for her to slow down the tour schedule and take some time off. It’s not like she needs the money from touring, but I get the impression that she has trouble coping without something intense and demanding to drive her. Take care of yourself Madonna, you don’t need to keep pushing it to the limit.
Madonna is shown performing in Russia on 8/2/09. Credit: WENN.com
can’t stand her
Is giving the finger to the crowd her standard concert move? Wow, how shocking. I’d much rather see KISS perform, honestly. Or Kelly Clarkson. Madonna has become a deluded caricature of her former self. Boring performer, boring character, boring ol’ Madonna. Pfft.
Of course she passed out. Shes a 150 years old STILL trying in some pathetic way to be 22.
I saw her back in the early 1990’s. She lip sync’d through the entire show, she was allegedly exhausted and sick and her performance even back then boardered on an old lady. I would have rathered she had cancelled than to have given a sub par performance and not even sing at all.
Don’t know what my point was exactly, but she sucked and I can’t imagine people still wanting to see her when she sucked 20 years ago.
Madge is a complete Narcissist, and her kids and the child boyfriend are all participants in her “Look at me!” parade.
I’m so sick and tired of Vadge, but I WILL say this: she’s a trooper, that’s fo’ sho’. Now, can she get lost already?
OMG that is so wrong. something is really creepy about that video and Madonna!
@ Amy – well said. I agree with you.
She’s NOT (however much she would like to be) 22 years old anymore and she should calm her ass down now.
My granny had dizzy spells just before she passed away and she was pretty healthy too …
My days of following and loving Madonna are pretty much over, but I hope she’s ok.
She looks old. She’s only fooling herself.
Even in terms of pure vanity, at a certain age (40s to 50s) even slim women benefit from a little fat to fill out the wrinkles on the face & hands and to soften the line of the legs (SJP, I love you, but this goes for you, too).
This whole current look for Madonna seems so desperate and a reversion from the evolution she had started with previous albums like “Music” and “Ray of Light” where she seemed to be focusing on (admittedly vague) spirituality and an aura of wisdom.
Reverting back to disco booty-shaking now is so obviously two-steps-back from that interesting evolution that it can’t be read as anything but mid-life desperation. I mean, good for her for still being able to do that gruelling tour schedule and gyrating (with the occasional faint), but what’s the point? But oh well, if people will pay money to see Britney lip-sync, I guess they’ll pay to see when Madonna will break a calcium-absorption-challenged limb.
She looks damn good for her age but is clearly pushing too hard. I’ve seen Flea, while in his early 30’s, pass out during a show. He sucked down some oxygen at the side of the stage and kept on playing. Dehydration, deficient in calories, exhaustion, all that can do that to anyone at any level of fitness or any age. I really do wonder if she’s taking human growth hormone or some version of it as an elixir of youth. That’s got to mess with your endocrine system. Look what it’s done to her arms.
I think she is holding up her first fingers, not her middle fingers. She is a driven woman. Too bad she doesn’t drive herself into a lake somewhere and drown. The world has had enough of this self-centred, egotistical, weirdo.
Probably just overdid it. If you don’t eat for a while and then you are in a warm and noisy environment, you can get dizzy and faint. It’s happened to me a couple of times. Nothing to do with age! She just needs to rest for a day.
Madonna should take her children and go live quitely somewhere. Lets watch her daughter grow up to be a young refine lady.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Wow, that actually is pretty scary. Love her or hate her, I wouldn’t like to know she is ill or something.
Hope it was ANYTHING except a pregnancy.
Hmm.. I saw the video and didn’t see her faint or anything, she just leaned at one point (when another performer took center stage) on a dancer but didn’t fall or anything. Went right back to business. That being said she’s surely exhausted and not eating properly. It catches up with you, eventually.
madge was alot of fun in the 80s, with her little belly and her black rubber bracelets. she needs to put on some weight and stop taking herself so seriously.
Did anyone actually watch the video? She didn’t pass out. It truly, truly seemed part of the show. Look at the dancers’ faces. They’re not upset, they’re not concerned. That one guy lifts her arm and it flops down and then she “revives”. It seems very much like choreography.
Don’t know if she passed out (and don’t care) but I would assume just by looking at her that she is undernourished. I don’t know anyone who is in good health whose arms and face look like that. Maybe is she was younger her strict diet (if she has one) would not show so much on her face but she looks ill.
It looks like it was part of the dance.. intentional..very intentional.
Biggie Shortie,,,I will never be tired of vadge. However I am tired of Madge.
Wow, can I laugh at this? Is it appropriate? cuz that shit was hilarious… maybe she didn’t faint, maybe granny had to take a quick nap..?
She has aged so ungracefully, it’s kind of sad to watch. Makes me wonder if I’ll end up acting just as pathetic at her age and then I start to preemptively hate myself.
Also, I don’t know what sort of dance routine imitates the state of fainting… but if there is one, I’m sure Madonna would be the first to attempt it. And I’m pretty sure she is giving people the middle finger… which really makes me wants to breaka them off and shove them up her ass… :/
I wonder if she has exercise bullimia. She hardly eats and she pushes her body to the limits with her strict training regime (just look at those arms, there’s something unhealthy about them). It’s not out of the realms of possibility, in my opinion. If this were the case, her trainer is clearly an enabler.
What was she passing out? Condoms?
Im so sick of the narrow mindedness of our culture these days. Reading all these comments about how she should just die and retire is pathetic. This woman has worked her ass off and still looks incredible and is still selling #1 records and concerts all over the world. She obviously needs to take a break and relax but who are we to tell the women to stay at home and retire.
None of us could do a fraction of what she has done. She faints for 3 seconds and the world is all over this shit…its fucking ridiculous.
Looking at the pics I don’t know whether to be scared or impressed. Which has pretty much been the case for her entire career…..