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MADONNA
No, really. Seriously, it’s her. Normal clothes, normal hair, no crotch flash, no veiny arms waving at you. I know, it freaked me out too.
(Madonna)
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No WAY! Freaky….
Very nice and perfect for a woman her age! But lets see it before it’s photoshopped. Crows feet, wrinkles, sags, grey roots and blotchy menopausal skin and all.
So true. If we all had make up artists like hers and were photoshopped in every picture, we’d look that good!
I’m thinking this is an older pic, so it’s not actually of a woman her (current) age. I may be wrong, but it seems like it’s older
I think it’s from about 2001.
Yeah now Madonna has 4 $5 Footlongs from Subway for arms.
And we wonder why women have self esteem issues.
She totally dyed her roots black, you know those roots would be grey.
LOL
WIN!
Really, who came up with “showing roots = cool?” You look retarded, and it shatters the illusion that you are, in fact, a platinum blonde. Of course, real blondes don’t usually have pitch-black eyebrows either, but hey, what do I know?
Not much, apparently. A friend of mine always got accused of dyeing her hair, but she didn’t. She had light blonde hair in front, medium golden blonde hair over most of her head, dark roots–nearly black, particularly at the back of her head. It was natural. She also had very dark eyebrows.
However, I agree that the purposeful showing-roots-thing is pretty stupid.
Well, I have a response to that : Shakira
So many women got looking super-ugly since that.
Is it just me or is some of her hair stuck to her lips? D:
Yeah, some of her hair flew in front of her mouth in that image. Odd that they didn’t photoshop it out…
This is a picture of the woman who would become Madonna. Back when she had a first and last name and lived in Michigan. She must be between 17 and 20 in this picture.
nonono. You’ve clearly either never seen pictures of her young or haven’t seen very many pictures of her now.
That was definitely taken within the last decade or so. It’s just been photoshopped very well.
what freaks me out is that Madonna is older than my mother is….and I’m 27 yrs old…..
What freaks me out is that Madonna is a year older than me.. and I’m still probably older than your mother.
Clean up your room!
What does not freak me out is I’m 2 years older than her, look better and have had no plastic surgery! Thank you Mom for excelent genes!
Just lots and lots of plastic surgery….
Come on, she’s the eighth wonder of the world, #1 top earning concert tour last year- 100 million plus. I hesitate to call her either a great singer or dancer, but she has an unsurpassed talent for self promotion.
Self-promotion isn’t a talent
it’s just a very annoying trick
Yeah, she may not have the freaky arms, but what about those inch-long roots?!
wrong, her natural hair color is brown
Jesus H. Keerist, people are harsh!
She turns a whole 51 in August, and you people are dissecting her and talking about those parts as if she’s in her 80s. More importantly, I think the implication is that she should never, ever, ever show much skin in public anymore, because she’s not taut and 18 (even though she’s in fantastic shape, for anyone of ANY age), and further, perhaps, shouldn’t be performing anymore. Yet, performers like the Rolling Stones can drag their sorry, withered carcasses onstage year-after-year, Mick still tries to shake his ass, and people don’t dissect their body parts–nearly as much, anyway. Except for Keith Richards, but people have been slagging on him for nearly 40 years, because he’s always looked sickly and withered–alcohol and heroin just aren’t beauty treatments. Madonna, at least, takes care of herself.
I’m not her age, but I am over 40, so I’m going to get there. I just hope you idiots *thoroughly enjoy* the loss of your youth when it comes! The first realization that your skin is looser on your frame than it used to be, the wrinkles that appear out of nowhere, the shock when it finally hits that you can in no way compete with a 20-year-old, either in romance or on the playing field. Yeah, I hope your words find you then. Maybe they’ll be flung at you by an insensitive 20-something, who doesn’t yet have a clue how quickly those years pass.
Well said, Naoyusimi.
TY. And here I thought I was going to be flamed beyond all recognition.
:-/
Yeah, but to be fair, Mick Jagger doesn’t wear a thong on stage and then unabashedly flaunt his barely-covered man-bits whether you want to see them or not.
You didn’t see Mick onstage in the 80s . . . (j/k) . . . and he’s about 15 years older than Madonna.
To be completely fair, are you SURE you’ve seen Madonna onstage in a thong–lately? I’ve seen a sexy photo-shoot, and some live pics from the stage, but haven’t seen her in a thong. Onstage photos from here always focus on something no one can possibly help, like her upper arms–are “we” going to insist her upper arms be covered? What are we, fundie Mormons or something?
Or, a shot of her inner thigh, due to an onstage bodysuit and a misguided choreographer/photographer (both misguided? Or is one more at fault than the other? I dunno.) . . . those are not “barely covered woman-bits” . . . you’d see that at any beach (plus more).
Ahh, I get it now. If Britney or J’Lo dance about in a leotard then they’re skanky ho’s and should stop influencing young girls, but if MADONNA does it, then, well, good on her ’cause she looks so good for her age.
Society has some wonderful double standards.
I don’t believe I ever said that . . . nope, re-examining my comments, I feel utterly confident that I never called Britney or J’Lo dancing “skanky hos”. I think there are lots of worse influences out there, than Britney or J’Lo. Detrimental ideas persist in our culture, through much more pernicious methods than singer-dancers, whom I feel are no different than Ann-Margaret or Cyd Charisse, only for our time.
What do you have against leotards? Dancers have worn them forever. Do you think ballet dancers are “skanky hos” because they’re wearing leotards, and sometimes not too much else?
“Society” doesn’t have double standards . . . different people have different opinions on things.
http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/celebrity-pictures-madonna-grandma-liquor.jpg
I’m sorry, but you can’t blame anyone for this but her.
OK, so that’s a “skanky” pose . . . poor choreography, for certain. And, since Madonna has been a choreographer—-fine, I’ll blame her. Not for all of society’s ills, mind you, but for a stupid onstage pose.
hAs for picking apart her body, however, I’m blaming the little kiddies, who are too used to the airbrushing in advertising and Playboy to know what a REAL body does, even when it’s 20 years old. If I was wearing a bodysuit & posing like that, even when I was in the best shape of my life, at 19 or 20, you might find my flesh fold at the inner thigh. OMG! Horrendous . . . people aren’t Barbie dolls! Reality is so sucky.
I still say she’s in fantastic shape. She can do what she wants. 20 years ago (at probably the same age), Cher did her sheer bodysuit with a thong up the back onstage. This outfit is nowhere NEAR as revealing.
As for “raiding a 13-year-old’s closet”, no you probably won’t. I don’t see Madonna doing that either, in photos I’ve seen of her on the street. Onstage, however, a performer’s dress should not be held to the same standards as regular streetwear.
Don’t even try to compare this sorry bitch to the Stones
The Stones are MUSICIANS, that requires know how, skill and dedication. This hack has based her career on her body and her looks and being a provocative cow. So now, yes, people are disecting her because what made her famous has now faded away and all we see is a wannabe, irrelevant, piece of garbage.
Whatever. Don’t bring me to the point of defending her music career, ’cause I’ve never been a big fan . . . a song or two here and there, but a “fan”? No.
As for the comparison, I hope you have the brains enough to realize that I wasn’t comparing their MUSIC, but the attitudes people take in whether or not they talk about a performers BODY. HELLLOOOOOOOO? Anybody in there with reading comprehension?
She didn’t make her career entirely on her body or her looks–that’s garbage. Your statement is as irrelevant as you accuse her of being.
Touche Atomus…
I’m not having a shot when I get older. I’m going to start acting older, rather than rampaging the closet of my 13 year old daughter! LOL No one’s making fun of her for being old, everyone’s making fun of her for not realizing that.
And I beg to differ about your concept of “taking care of oneself”. I’m sorry, but your veins aren’t supposed to start poping out everywhere on your body if you’re taking PROPER care of yourself.
My bad, I meant I’m not going to have a SHOCK when I get older.
“I meant I’m not going to have a SHOCK when I get older.”
Oh, you probably will . . . you have no idea HOW you’ll react, really. It doesn’t just arrive one day, with a big sign, to let you know . . . it’s slow, surreptitious, and subtle. That’s how it can be a surprise, or a shock.
“I’m sorry, but your veins aren’t supposed to start poping [sic] out everywhere on your body if you’re taking PROPER care of yourself.”
You have a very limited idea of aging, and how individual, how different human bodies can be! I see it all the time, the reactions of the body to different conditions. Come on! There are very thin women who have cellulite. There are very heavy women who have ripple-free, smooth, enviable skin–guess what? That’s mostly genetic.
OK, here’s an example: An avid runner I know, in fantastic shape and very health-conscious, has the worst varicose veins, and pain in her legs from them.
Body builders often have veins which are very visible. The muscle-building exercise–muscle fibers which need a rich blood flow–contributes to this, as does low body fat, which makes them more visible.
Madonna reportedly does yoga, but I think she does some weight training, too. Add to that a low body fat percentage, et voila!
Out of curiosity, what do you think she’s doing to make her veins pop out? Shooting heroin?
No, we all get that a low body fat / bodybuilding thing makes your veins stick out.
It’s just that it’s not attractive – not on overly muscled body builders, not on in-their-20’s, fit athletes, not on middle aged try-hards. It’s a sign that you’ve over worked your body, taken it past healthy to a place that the rest of us really don’t want to look at.
Hey, I’m (almost) Madonna’s age, so I’m not coming down on her for trying to stay young. Aging sucks. But there’s silly stuff that you forgive the young for (like making their bodies do dumb stuff) because they’re young , and there’s recognising when it starts to look a bit sad.
After the mutton dressing up as lamb stage comes the one who takes it further and ends up looking like a pork chop. If you’ll excuse the meat analogy.
I basically agree with everything you’ve said, except this:
“It’s a sign that you’ve over worked your body, taken it past healthy . . . ”
Just because the veins of low-body fat athletes are not considered “attractive”, does not mean it’s unhealthy.
I see runners all the time who have bodies which I would never want in a million years, because I hate that scrawny body type. I suppose they’re quite healthy, but give me some flesh, any day.
I couldn’t help but read all of Naoyusimi’s posts in a “LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!” voice.
Dang! Ouch.
That’s nearly enough to make me retract everything . . .
OK, not entirely, but for about 3 seconds, there . . .
Seriously, I’m not that big a “fan”. It’s more the little-kiddie-attitude that I sensed in the first few posts, that indicated to me they thought anybody over 40 needed to wrap themselves in burkas and stop performing, before they dry up and blow away.
R.I.P. Michael Jackson
I’m 2 years older than Madonna and look better than her. I would not wear the clothes she wears. There is such a thing as looking your best and she does not do that when she wears clothes more suited to a woman years younger than herself. And, it is unfair they don’t pick on men like women but that does not make it right for Madonna to dress poorly.
I’ve never seen her “dress poorly”. I don’t think such a phrase even applies to stage costumes. You think she wears the stuff offstage that she wears onstage?
She does try. Point is, she needs to dress her age
Not to bring anyone down or anything.
Carry on making fun . . . because that’s what is done here.
Thank you, Naoyusimi, for the only sensible comments on this photo I’ve read here.
I’m not a fan either but I do get annoyed at pettiness and “petite bourgeoisie” narrow-mindedness. What’s wrong with you people, hammering on: “I’m her age but I look better” and “She should dress her age”?! Have you heard of personal style? Do middle-aged people HAVE to dress like complete bores because of an outdated concept of “propriety”? What if that doesn’t suit their personality and lifestyle? Ye gods, save me from middle-class “decency”!
Looks shopped to me…
Gee, I was going to say, “Hey, she looks great!” but it seems most of you are sure the photo has been heavily “photoshopped.” Well, it probably has and this photo is likely a few years old too. Still, for a woman just over 50 she’s in great shape. Something for us normal people to shoot for when we reach that age.
She actually looks pretty!
much better.
OMG is that wot she looks like
wow. she is actually pretty
she looks…. Good lol I didn’t know it was possible.