Madonna tells of sex shame

Daily Mail Showbiz section ^ | 13/06/05 | Clemmie Moodie

[Jenya]

Madonna tells of sex shame

By Clemmie Moodie, Daily Mail

Throughout years of reinvention, she has steadfastly stuck to one mantra - sex sells.

But now, after making a career as a controversial, no-holds-barred sex siren, Madonna has admitted that she pushed her explicit image too far.

At 46, she has spoken out against her early, headline-grabbing years, claiming that they may have misled her legion of young fans.

'Sometimes I was being overtly sexual for the sake of showing off when I didn't need to be. I think I hurt myself,' the singer told the American magazine, Ladies' Home Journal.

'Ultimately none of us wants to be judged, or approved of, or loved because of the way we look, or how sexy we are.

'One minute I was saying believe in yourself and the next minute I was saying just be sexually provocative for the sake of being sexually provocative.

'I was letting it pump up my ego, thinking aren't I great, they're writing about me, my picture's on the cover of every magazine, I'm so fabulous.'

The Like A Virgin singer's admission comes just days after the publication of her fifth children's book, Lotsa De Casha, which she hopes will complete her makeover from raunchy star to demure mother of two.

It is not known whether Madonna's devotion to Kabbalah, a mystical offshoot of Judaism, has anything to do with her newfound bashfulness.

But it seems the queen of pop - who has a 1992 picture book called Sex to her name - has something of a hazy, and indeed short-term, memory.

Just last year she completed her Reinvention tour which, as well as netting her £65million, involved a number of flesh-baring costumes.

And earlier this year Madonna, who married the film director Guy Ritchie in December 2000, fronted a £ 5million advertising campaign for Versace posing as a vampish businesswoman.

But that is tame compared to some of her previous incarnations - such as her 1990 Blonde Ambition tour when she cavorted on stage in a coneshaped bra and fishnet stockings.

[John Will]

Sometimes I wonder how she was able to avoid being smited for blasphmizing the name Maddonna.

[jocon307]

"Sometimes I wonder how she was able to avoid being smited for blasphmizing the name Maddonna."

I believe Maddonna is her actual given name. Her parents were Italian and pretty conservative iirc.

[subterfuge]

Sorry lady. Not buying it.

Just a sound bite to temporarily rehabilitate her image in order to sell some of those fabulous children's books she's written.

Its always been about the money for you MADonna.

[Always Right]

'Sometimes I was being overtly sexual for the sake of showing off when I didn't need to be. I think I hurt myself,' the singer told the American magazine, Ladies' Home Journal.

In other headlines, Bears shit in the woods....but it is nice that she discovered the obvious

[PJ-Comix]

Madonna is a brain dead whore. The father of her first kid was just some drone she picked up in Central Park strictly because she thought he looked kewl on a skateboard. Then after a quick rutting session with Madonna, she disposed of her drone since the dirty deed was done. And now this whore is lecturing the rest of us?

BTW, I know this funny Hasidic guy who sells at the Swap Shop. I asked him what he thought of Madonna taking up the Kabbalah. His reaction was also that he thought Madonna is a brain dead whore. BTW, he also said that whole Kaballah thing is mostly just a scam.

[grellis]

'I was letting it pump up my ego, thinking aren't I great, they're writing about me, my picture's on the cover of every magazine, I'm so fabulous.'

"And people are so busy lloking at my boobies and ass that they don't realize I have no vocal talent."

[brwnsuga]

Tell that to Mary Magdelene. Everybody deserves a second chance, right?