Posted on 10/13/2005 9:53:30 AM PDT by lainie
Madonna is a worldwide pop icon, once notorious for her desire to shock.
But as she nears 50, she has become a puritanical parent who is a disciplinarian with her children, nine-year-old Lola and Rocco, four.
Madonna, married to film director Guy Ritchie, says she has banned television and punishes her daughter's messiness by confiscating her clothes.
"I'm a disciplinarian. Guy's the spoiler," she says in an interview with Harpers & Queen magazine.
"When Daddy gets home, they're going to get chocolate. I'm more practical; I worry about their teeth and make sure they're getting their schoolwork done. I'm very schedlotuled, I make lists."
The woman who made her name as a mass media idol, continues: "My kids don't watch TV. We have televisions but they're not hooked up to anything but movies.
"TV is trash. I was raised without it. We don't have magazines or newspapers in the house either."
Ritchie, who directed Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, treats the children to pizza and bike rides. "Guy is into doing wild stuff outside, taking them out on bikes," she says.
"He's good cop, I'm bad cop. The kids watch movies every Sunday, so if they're naughty, they get their movie taken away. If they're a little naughty, then no stories before bed."
But 47- year- old Madonna is strictest of all about Lourdes's clothes.
"My daughter has a problem picking things up in her room, so if you leave your clothes on the floor, they're gone when you come home," she explains.
Bad behaviour is repaid by chores. "Lola has to earn all her clothes back by being tidy, making her bed, hanging up her clothes," she says.
As for the family diet: "It's whole grains, eating things by season, staying away from food that's been bioengineered in some way.
"[Our cook] prepares food like sushi or salmon. And vegetables. We don't eat any dairy here."
The singer also reveals how her social life is virtually non-existent. The daily routine means getting up at 7.30am, seeing the children off to school, a morning in the office, lunchtime exercising, then more work in the afternoon. Dinner is at 9.30pm, after Ritchie comes home.
"We eat late, we go to bed late, I get up early," she says. "I don't see a of my girlfriends. When you have a husband, two kids and a job, you don't go out that much." Madonna, who has a new single, Hung Up, out on 14 November, also talks about her love for London.
"I never thought I'd settle," she says. "I quite disliked the place for a while. When I was just starting out, the press was terrible to me. Then I met my husband. I realised that, if I didn't live here, I wouldn't get to see him very much. I feel freer here."
The full interview appears in the November issue of Harpers & Queen, on sale now.
She made a lot of money tearing down the morals of other people's children.
You mean she doesn't let her daughter dress up like a crack whore? But I thought that was the new "pop" culture we were all supposed to embrace...
Madonna revealed her new ambition is to write a children's TV series for young girls, a companion to her children's books which are based on Kabbalah.
"My ultimate goal is to have a TV series, and each episode would be about girls finding themselves in challenging situations," she explained.
yet...."TV is trash..."
And look at what a moral gal she turned out to be.
Madge aka "Esther" is starting to look quite silly dancing around in Cone-bras.
Absolutely. And no apologies for it, either.
The slut peddled smut, made 300,000,000, and now is a stay at home, strict mom...........I think I'm gonna puke.
Oh, so it's okay if she tries to screw up everybody's children but hers need protecting. Typical Hollyweird hypocrite.
That's what's funny. She's right, TV is trash. But it's people like her who made it that way. I suppose I'm talking about MTV specifically, but the cascade grew momentum with "groundbreakers" such as her, two decades ago.
This woman is a portrait of the conflicted, grown up liberal.
Oh come on. You are being way too judgemental about her. What is it with everyone on FR? So she gets on the stage in front of 50,000 kids and dryhumps fifty guys while wearing her underwear.
Good gosh, it isn't like she was having sex with a donkey...or was she?
You know, there's only one way to describe Madonna: She's full of sh*t.
My, that was an intemperate thing to say. I guess I won't get to watch any moves this Sunday.
Oh, this is too funny. The slut that posed in S/M gear and made millions on sex and perversion now disdains the trash culture that made her rich. Hypocrisy and stupidity obviously go hand in hand with Madonna. She's a near 50 year old whore whose career is OVER!
"Guy is into doing wild stuff outside, taking them out on bikes," she says.
Boy that bike riding is really wild stuff isn't it?
Hard to believe it was over twenty years ago when I was humming "Like A Virgin" while riding my bike to the deli to get some comic books and Charleston Chew.
"Me! Me! Me! I still want to be relevant! I'm going to tell you people how I hate discussing about my lifestyle!"
Hey Madonna, how's the collarbone?
50 GAY guys. Most of her male dancers were Gay.
"Mama Don't Preach"
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