Here are some photos of Madonna at ‘The Sound of Change Live’ concert at Twickenham Stadium in London last night. The concert was benefiting Chime for Change, which is an organization that helps women and girls all around the world. Chime for Change always sounded like such a wonderful organization for artists and musicians to associate with, and they got a really good turnout at this event. It was all about female empowerment and education for women and feminism. And this is how Madonna looked for that empowering message.
I mean, obviously Madonna has had work done on her face for years now. Remember when she got cheek implants or a “ribbon lift” or whatever it was? She looked awful for the better part of two years or something. And now Madge has gotten more work done. My unprofessional eye says that her puffiness might be a combination of things – lots and lots of fillers for a start. This isn’t Botox necessarily, but I’m sure Madge is getting Restylane injections. And I’m sure they’re budget. I also kind of think she looks like she’s on Steroids or something, like she’s having a reaction to some bad medication, maybe?
The Mail reports that Madonna looked so weird that as soon as she came on stage, Twitter blew up with people complaining about her puffy visage. You know what really offends me though? Madonna is super-rich – she could afford the best doctors, the best cosmetic surgeons, the highest-quality work (like Sharon Stone!), but instead Madonna cheaped out and went budget and now this is her face. Ugh.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Ray of Light was the start of Madge’s downfall, for me. She needs to relax, stop freaking out about being “known” or in the “scene,” and have a happy retirement with occasional diva concerts.
Yes, that was a good album, her last good album.
Confessions was great. One of her best. Critics loved it and it sold really well. The tour was one of her best ever too. Music was also very good. She still took changes but her music contained hints of her old fun popsongs.
I think she last looked good back in 2005-2006. Since then she slipped, music wise and face wise.
I also loved Erotica & Bedtime Stories. I was jogging to Madonna`s music last night–Like A Prayer, Vogue, Erotica. Love her music, actually feel sad for her face. Aging is painful & people are unkind. I am almost 45–I exercise, take vitamins and eat well. I have a twenty year old son, and folks think we are brother & sister..which is flattering. Yet, i feel the aching & stiffness in my bones throughout the day..feeling old. Admire Madonna still, hope she finds a better plastic surgeon.
Yes! Retire already. Then come back in 10 years when your 70 and do a farewell tour. This seemed to work out well for The Rolling Stones. At least Madonna didn’t wear some outfit with her a$$ hanging out like she normally does. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.
Amen to the wearing an outfit with her ass hanging out!
She’s going to need to give it up with those gloves–hands age quicker than anything, so just get a nice manicure, apply some light foundation and deal with it.
Now, she looks her age instead of the fillers making her look younger. Why can’t stars age gracefully? They change their face and bodies and then look like someone else and all that money spent which could help the poor. Wearing gloves like Courtney Cox so they want get spots on their hands until a hand life is invented.
Does she has anything else in her life than her face and body? I feel for her, she even has to cover up her hands, so sad.
It has been invented. All you have to do is inject fillers to fatten up the hands just like her face has been puffed up. I think Joan Rivers has had her hands done.
Confessions was amazing though. One of her best. It was flawless. And Music wasn’t so bad either. I loved it.
Not true, Confessions and Music were also fantastic albums.
And I love her stripped-down electronica folk ballads on American Life, very simple with guitar and so heartfelt. She was so happy and in love with Guy back then and her little boy and Lola.
Nothing Fails – so beautiful
Live on Re-Invention Tour
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQfkY5PZ-es
I’m more offended by that turtleneck than her face…..
Agree post y2k madge is sad. I think she puffed out her face to appear more “youthful” since she started to really look her age and ridiculous these last few years. I’m embarrassed for her. It’s like brit spears shaving head sad madge not able to accept her aging body. Can’t fight nature forever. Nature always wins.
OMG she just looks weird. Her face looks swollen I wouldn’t left the house. Didn’t she think anyone would notice her head was the size of a basketball? Whatever it is she either needs to start forking out the big bucks and get the work done properly or just don’t go out in public again. I prefer the later….
I’m with u DanaG.. Just retire already
She looks like Hilary Clinton in that second pic!
Does she resemble Drea De Matteo here, or is it just me?
Actually, I was going to say Priscilla Presley (post-surgery era). But maybe you’re right wiffie.
My first thought was Debbie Harry but the Drea de Matteo fits.
Portia Di Rossi!
I thought of Priscilla Presley too, because of the “dents” & dimpling of the skin. I wonder if this can be fixed?
It’s puzzling that she doesn’t get first-rate work done, when she can well afford it. I think this is actually making her look older.
Tragic and pathetic !
Yes, and I bet she would have aged nicely. Shame we’ll never know.
Good heavens! That last pic is hilariously epic and wrong. She’s not doing herself any favors with the surgery. She’s moving into scary mask face territory.
I bet it’s not a case of Madonna using cheap doctors. I bet she tells the doctor, “I want this done.” and the expensive doctors say, “No.” So she keeps trying different doctors until someone unscrupulous says, “Yes, I can do that for you.” And then, she looks like this.
Shes gonna deep throat that mike!
Considering how carefully she eats’ doesn’t smoke and avoids the sun her skin would probably look younger than mine (and she has over fifteen years on me) if she hadn’t screwed with it.
Then again they say you get the face you deserve and as she is by all accounts a miserable cow, maybe not.
Looking at these pictures actually makes my eyes water…
I think at this point she’s had so much work done that even a great plastic surgeon can’t do it. She does look very puffy and odd. How empowering.
My guess is that she went to some of the best surgeons but they told her they can’t do what she wants or she will look ridiculous. Being the control freak that she is, Madonna then found a doctor who would let HER be in charge of every little detail and would do whatever she asked. And now we see the results.
+1
+2. I think you’re absolutely right.
You are most likely correct. She chose being a control freak who can’t accept the reality of ageing over good. medical advice. She looks really bizarre.
Yes I think that is the correct idea. Madonna is very cheap EXCEPT when it comes to herself so I think she wanted to direct the surgeons and only the hackers would play ball. She looks gross.
This is pretty much what happens every time. No good plastic surgeon is going to claim that face. They have pride and they care about prestige! But there’s tons of shady ones who take advantage of a person’s body dysmorphia and do whatever the patient wants just for the money. Every time you see someone this freaky it means they’re addicted and could not stop getting things done.
Now that makes sense. Madge went doctor shopping until she found someone willing to do something kinda professionally unethical (do work he/she knew would turn out badly) because the price was right and the client was a legal adult. I’m not a doctor but I’ve been there – you warn the client how it’s going to turn out and they do it anyway.
Agreed. I posted the same thing and then read down further and saw your post.
I read that was exactly what happened to Michael Jackson as well. He went as far as the middle east to find a surgeon who would do his nose job for the whatever times.
I hadn’t considered that and thought she was cheap but I think you nailed it.
She’s not that young anymore and puts her body through a lot! My money is on this being a reaction to medication/health reasons.
Not a Madonna fan but I also think it’s ironic that she’s pretty much d@mned if she does and doesn’t as they say. Earlier this week, gossip sites were gleefully pointing out how ugly and old her hands were when she went glove free. When she covers her hands with gloves people then laugh at her for being vain.
Frankly, I don’t know how women in the entertainment biz do it. If they age naturally and maybe aren’t as lucky in the gene department, they are accused of letting themselves go. If they decide to do something and it’s obvious we laugh at them for deluding themselves into thinking they look better. Maybe it’s not them with the problem. Maybe it’s us?
On a final note. I recently got very sick and was put on a high dose of prednisone. Madonna’s puffy face looks less like fillers and more like the moonface common when you take steroids. Her hands could also be a result of that, as prednisone thins your skin.
Anyway, I just think maybe we need to give people a little break…she’s pretty darn amazing and I hope when I hit 54, I’m in half the physical shape she is!
+1! I also thought prednisone “moonface” immediately.
I agree about steroids. As someone who had Cushings Disease, her face looks eerily familiar.
+1
Me Three
Yes she is damned either way, but she brings it on herself. Acting as she does and throwing fits for media attention makes her a target .
Yeah, I was thinking she looks like she has a mild case of Prednisone moon face.
Yes-Ashley Judd face.
I’m equally baffled by the lace / leather gloves. Is this her 1985 throwback look or is it (along with the turtleneck) a way to cover other signs of aging? Hands and neck often give away our age.
My first thought was that she was covering up her hands because they are a dead give away to her age. What she doesn’t comprehend is that we all know what her real age is…she would be better off leaving her face alone and wear a bee keepers hat than doing all that permanant damage to her poor face…I’d rather look my age, than look like an experiment gone wrong!
A bee keeper’s hat…LOL! Good one.
@ blannie
A beekeeper’s hat could be very stylish if it was done right. And Madonna would be the person who could do it!
Too bad though. She was so brash and fearless in her ’20’s and ’30’s and now she just seems like a Nora Desmond parody. But I had a feeling 10+ years ago that she had too much ego to just retire and let someone else rule the rock world while she watched from the sidelines. Sigh.
Maybe she should bring back those lacy tied headbands she made popular around 1984. She could adjust them so it would pull her face tighter.
She’s been covering her hands for a while!
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/4058596/Madonna-news-Why-is-singer-rarely-spotted-without-her-gloves.html
I was thinking she probably had a peel or some injections done t o her hands at the same time she did the facial crap. You can see the areas that have been filled. Its sitting in areas by her mouth/chin.
Maybe she’s on prednisone?
+10 exactly what I thought
My thoughts too. I think her body may be puffy too. I mean, why else would Madonna be so covered?
She might be puffy as a side effect to surgery..maybe it was too soon after the surgery. Plus how come they heal sop quickly? the paps always follow celebrities but they’re never shown with bandages or coming out of private clinics or hospitals. I think she’ll looke better in a few weeks even if at some point she’ll have to surrender at the thought of aging.. she looks ridicolous with all the diva antics..plus we all know how old she is. she ain’t fooling anyone here….
plus that pic where she looks like ‘eating’ the mic is doing her any favor……
Prednisone was my first thought, too. Her face reminds me of when Ashley Judd’s face looked like that, and I think her rep said prednisone or some other medicine. Both have/had a chubby girl face without actually being chubby.
The thing about prednisone puff is it tends to be lower in the face (hence the term “moon face”). Her puffiness is all in her upper cheeks and eyes, not around her jaw at all so I don’t think it is prednisone. I think something else is going on.
But hey, she’s wearing clothes! Anyone else notice that? Sometime flattering and age-appropriate. So maybe she really is sick.
I thought that lately Madonna’s face had finally started to settle and that it was looking pretty good, though obviously she’s gotten a facelift and a lot of injections.
Looks like maybe she didn’t like her face “settling” and decided to puff it up again. She looks like a deformed marshmallow.
I really don’t think it’s that Madonna goes “budget” with her face work. I have no doubt she goes to so-called “top” plastic surgeons and pays them a ton of money.
But I don’t think she is content with looking like a “beautiful 50 something woman,” like Sharon Stone is. Madonna wants to try to look as young as possible and therefore demands her doctors puff up her face with a ton of filler to try to recapture the full face of a 20 year-old. And the results are not good.
I’ve always thought the best plastic surgery is that where the person is not trying to look younger, necessarily, but like a knock-out version of a person their age. To me, Sharon Stone basically looks her age. But she looks like an absolutely gorgeous woman her age. Her plastic surgery has tried to improve on what she has but without trying to make her look like a 20 year-old.
I think Sharon Stone doesn’t get botox done. She probably gets restylane, which is a laser technique that does something similar but less dangerous. It hurts more because it’s laser, and it’s like your burned your face afterwards, but you don’t inject yourself with questionable poisons to freeze your muscles.
Sharon is a great example of skin care. She looks good because she has a great dermatologist. But you can clearly tell she has all her wrinkles and facial expressions. Demi Moore is another great example.
Sun screen and moisturizer, guys! Skin care is not a myth. Dermatology is scientific. Take good care of your skin and you’ll see results. I use creams since I was 17. Now in my late 20’s I have great skin. Much better than my friends.
I’d agree about Sharon being more an example of skin care with a few minor procedures. Demi Moore isn’t an example of natural anything, though. Both her body and her face have had a lot of work done throughout her career.
If I had their money and the desire to look “fresh”, I’d go to Tom Cruise’s guy. I think he’s in S. America, but he does an amazing job.
Restayne in NOT a laser, It’s a filler. People look great in their 20’s. You have no idea how things change as your hormones will change later in life. None.
A bit of judicious botox can refresh, but a little to much shows and fillers are quickly ruining the best faces in Hollywood.
Taking care of your skin is good, but trust me it’s not everything. No one over 50 is fooling anyone with these procedures. You can’t buy youth. You can tweak it but you’re got to know when to stop.
BTW, even with the pleat front pants, this is the best outfit she’s been seen in lately.
I think genetics are key, bone structure second. Now I am 54 and have relaly good skin, but I have not used many creams, I did fro 40 to 50 use good quality French products. Havent smoked cigarettes much in my life and not since 40 at all. I drink booze, but only beer and a little wine. I have always eaten well and I am a little fat now but was always trim. Constant dieting, unless you are going macrobiotic or something very healthy can be bad for the skin and no one mentions this issue. Oh yeah, and I hate going in the sun, so I never used a sunblock but I stay in the shade mostly. 99% of mainstream cosmetics are harmful chemicals. Read how they work at skin deep organization non profit. Not advertizing as it is non profit.
Restylane is not a laser. It is a filler. As far as lasers there are really invasive ones like the Co2 laser and then ones that only target certain areas of the skin like Fraxel. Madonna looks like filler-mania and/or something else more bizarre that only she is privy to.
Annie, you are in all reality between 10-20 years away from seeing how hormonal changes impact your skin.
And what is it with the posts that bring out this snide quality about looking better than your friends? Always a response or two in these threads. I wouldn’t expect you to be blind, but the bragging, and it for sure IS bragging, is a worse look than having wrinkles or jowls.
Oh, and for the scientifically minded: Restylane is indeed an injection, not a laser-based procedure, and I don’t think comparing the alleged pain of either makes any sense or has anything to do with results.
I agree Annie. My mother preached moisturizer and sunscreen since my teens. I am also addicted to sunglasses! I am 31 an no signs of crows feet yet. Others my age aren’t so lucky.
Sunscreen will prevent you burning but it doesn’t do much to prevent sun related aging. Staying out of the sun most of the time will help more. Not smoking is also a big one. My skin looks more haggard than my sisters’ who is five years older than me. I smoke and love then sun, she doesn’t and it shows.
she wears the gloves because her hands show the signs of aging. bet we never see her without gloves again. HANDS TELL THE STORY OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME
Good point about the gloves. I recently saw a woman who had a very smooth, obviously tweaked but not too horribly, face, and then she lifted her hand to fix her hand, and I almost gasp – it was like some gnarly old claw!
Yes-see Diane Keaton and her gloves.
Seriously, I am pretty certain this makes her look older than natural aging would have.
I don’t know about that but she certainly doesn’t look good.
If she would’ve kept her face natural then people would’ve complained about that.
Well, probably, but you can have a small amount of discreet work that looks more natural than this. You don’t have to go full-on cat woman like she is here.
exactly…have a small amount of work done that may make you look say, 5 years younger than you are….not tons of work that makes you look like Frakenstein’s monster gone wrong…where are the bolts in her neck?
Maybe she did go to the best and this is the best that the best can do?
Yikes. Full-on cat woman.
However, I don’t think it’s budget work. Fillers look terrible when you first get them. You can look like you have bruised bee bites in a pattern where they injected the needles(see the bit on her cheek, that looks like an injection site to me). However, since this is her WHOLE face, one wonders just what she had done. Would any doctor actually put that much in at one time? Maybe she had fat injections? Or a facelift that hasn’t healed yet?
I wish she would lay off with trying to be 20. She is awesome at 50 and doesn’t need to do this to herself.
I hate this so much. I like Madonna for the most part. And damn I wanted her to rock getting older. Look at Stevie, and even Melissa.. gosh Madonna could have been the SHIT. But I just hate that she feels she needs to be in competition with women that she made a way for.
and yes to the poster upthread. Her hands are showing signs of her age and that is why she wears the gloves. Her body is killer and that is all she needed. I hate what she is doing to her face. HATE IT so much.
Women don’t seem to get that we all have a genetic path of aging. Your face was meant to age in a certain way. When you do shit to alter that things get all wonky. And when the filler wear off or whatever they do the face doesn’t know what the hell to do and you see that they actually look older and worst so they have to do something else to counter. It’s like a chess game against your face. But the face is going to win.
Er MAH GAWD! Madonna was beginning to look normal in the last pics I saw of her and now THIS! What the he11! Find Sharon Stone’s doctor please!
Jocelyn, meet Madge. Madge, meet the Bride of Wildenstein. They’ll hit it off for sure, and think they look great!
LORD. Fillers are the worst thing to ever happen to cosmetic surgery.
I know a plastic surgeon who does amazing things to his face. It looks fresh, natural because he uses creams, laser and other types of injections. He’s in his 40’s and he has great skin. He says there’s actual good stuff out there but that people abuse it because they have serious issues. Like botox, he says that people like Nicole Kidman or Kim K have it done every two months, which is incredibly dangerous and why their faces look frozen, and it’s because they’re addicted to it or have body dysmorphia, so whatever you do to them is not good enough and they end up doing too much of everything. He says plastic surgery is very addictive. Like getting more tattoos once you get your first, you just want more.
He’s cool though. He mostly treats burned victims, or he tries to fix other doctors’ botched jobs. He showed me pictures of a woman who had a nose job and to mold her nose they used CEMENT. Actual cement. So her nose got a horrible allergic reaction. She nearly LOST her nose. So he was fixing it. Thank God he manage to fix it, otherwise who would’ve needed to create a fake nose like the ones Michael Jackson had.
So yeah, Madonna, Joan Rivers, Michael Jackson, Kim K, all of these people are sick. It’s a type of mental issue because you don’t see what other people see. You don’t see that you are starting to look like the Cat Lady. All you see is wrinkles, lose skin, age. It’s sad. I’m sad for Madge.
Now she looks like a 70 years old with a twicked face.
Why oh why people don’t understand that after years of painful treatments one has exactly the face he/ she deserves?
That looks like the steroid puff face to me.
That’s what I think as well. I’m now on a really high dose of prednisone and have that same moon faced look. And the stuff does horrible things to your skin. The skin on my hands has thinned. If she is on prednisone, it’s no fun people. I give her props for having the energy to get up there and perform. I’m having a hard time getting out of bed!
And laughing at any of the women who are trying to figure out their own way through aging, might be fun now but I hope those who are doing the laughing now, can keep on smiling as they face the same issues…cuz ladies, you may be in your 30’s now and your hands are pretty…but let’s see how you feel in 20 years. Remember that before you decide to laugh at another woman, famous or not.
Well said. I don’t know if Madonna is on prednisone or having too many fillers injected, but it’s her face, not mine.
Genes, health – luck, really – and the passage of time have an enormous impact on how we look as we age. I’m not Madonna’s age and I know that. How do other people not get that? I’m not saying she looks awesome. IMO, she doesn’t, at all. And she’s humorless and grim and a pain in the ass. But – I don’t think she can’t quite win in this arena. And she’s not pulling a Kidman, I don’t think, and pretending she’d rather die than have procedures done, right? So I’m guessing there’s no hypocrisy if she’s in fact seeing Dr. Brandt and getting the works.
Very well said, Me Three.
Oh my.. She has looked better! She trys to hard for me. If she wasn’t such a vile, nasty person no one would judge her so harshly.
More goss from the concert itself:
All the artists had speeches that were on teleprompters. Every single one of them delivered them – except Madge. Madge HAD to go off-script. She delayed the concert by ten minutes, rambling about starting a revolution, imploring people in the crowd ‘Listen to me!’ and
Also GLORIA STEINEM WAS THERE. Please get pictures of her, she looked so incredibly hot and was wearing a 70s flared jumpsuit. None of the teenagers in the audience beside me knew who she was, but I screamed like a maniac.
Of course she wanted them to listen. Some people didn’t seem to grasp it was about the cause. They acted as if they were seeing Madonna in concert with all their yelling when it’s not appropriate.
She looks older than she is.
She’s just old. That’s about it.
I think she sees Dr Brandt who is FAR from budget. He is way over priced for fillers, botox. Just call for an appt and he will be ten times more than any other Dr.
He is also known to over fill his patients.
The problem is with older celebs, or anyone for that matter is they want to look 25 again. You can’t. Ever.
You can look better, or good for your AGE like Christie Brinkley but you still need wrinkles, folds etc to look real.
It’s better to have some wrinkles, movement, lines etc with some fillers, botox, lifts whatever but keep it as real as possible without going over board.
She could also be swollen, fillers attract water as soon as you inject so if she just got injected in the past 2 week she could still be retaining the water for awhile.
And have you seen Dr. Brandt!?!?! I would never go to someone who obviously *enjoys* pushing the limits of face work so thoroughly.
Yes, just checked on Brandt on Youtube. Also don’t go to Rob Lowe’s character in Behind the Candelabra!
When I saw Rob Lowe in that movie he immediately called to mind Dr. Brandt! Soooo tiiiiggghhht!!!!
I just googled him and OMG! WHY would you go to anyone who looks like that???? Yikes!
When I saw the name Dr. Brandt, I gasped & clutched my pearls at the same time. Dr. Brandt looks—well, I’ll try to be nice—absolutely freakish. If that happened to my face, I would stay in the house or behind a veil.
If he is Madonna’s doctor, that tells me that she has full-blown body dysmorphia. No one but a Madonna, a Wildenstein et al., would look at Dr. Brandt & think that is reasonable cosmetic surgery.
Fillers do not attract water so that cannot be it. All fillers are diluted with saline et al so they inject better. After the saline reabsorbs into your body within 24-48 hours the filled area swelling actually goes down and are less puffy not more.
I didn’t know that. But why do we see a lot of puffiness in women like, say, the Real Housewives of Bev Hills or Orange County? A few of them have very puffy faces much of the time, and I figure they can’t be getting weekly injectables.
Restylane DOES attract water, more than any other filler. You have never ever gotten swelling from filler that were not just needle marks?
Ask your PS next time you go. If you haven’t gone yet then you don’t know what you are talking about.
The Dr does not dilute the filler, Botox maybe but not filler. If your Dr is messing with prepackaged filler I would run and never look back.
Madge does absolutely nothing, not even charity work, without it being all about herself. She’s vain and self-obsessed to a compulsive degree which has made her a gazillionaire, but unfortunately not all the money and determination in the world can keep you young. Suck it Madonna, you can’t buy youth, only a pathetic facsimile.
Jaded ^^ YES!!!
Well, whatever the problem is, that turtleneck isn’t helping things. And neither is the hairstyle. I would hate to hate getting older so badly that I felt I needed to do this time myself.
It’s called Karma Face.
Your personality comes through your face. Her’s is ugly.
I don’t know why everyone isn’t seeing Tom Cruise’s guy. He’s a creep, but man, he looks refreshed without looking bizarre. If I were looking to have work done, I’d hunt that Dr. down like it was my job!
I just made a similar comment upthread. Cruise has an amazing doctor. You can tell he pays him a visit right before every promotional tour, but it looks good. If I remember right, I think the rumor was that his doctor is in S. America. I can’t remember the doc’s name, though.
According to Lainey, Tom Cruise is seeing renowned Brazilian doctor Ivo Pitanguy.
http://www.laineygossip.com/Tom-Cruise-beauty-routine-with-Brazilian-plastic-surgeon/22203
His clients apparently include royalty and the brazilian supermodels.
She looks scary.
She looks like a chipmunk.
…she kinda looks like my grandma now…
I’m just glad to see her in clothes and not some full bottom panties with fishnets again.
Literacy/education IS a human right. She acknowledged the many women who got hurt just so that other girls and women can enjoy basic rights like education. She named women who made a true difference. She stepped aside to let others speak. She rallied people to do it together and she promoted Chime fo Change. She promoted their causes and will match the donations. Did people miss all of this? But it was all about HER right? That’s why she was dressed all in demure black instead of fishnets and underwear. Smdh. I think she spoke from the heart, I believed it.
She’s been doing this since the start of her career. She did things that could kill her career such as speak out about AIDS and write songs about it. Talking about sex and expressing herself very boldly, critics be damned. It didn’t destroy her, it made her popular (and hated) and one of the most recognisable pop stars. She can continue for all I care. I just find the face very very sad.
Snarky notes:
– Her face looked like mine when I had a sunburn. I was terrified! I don’t understand how she can willingly do this to herself? How can she look in the mirror and think this is ok and empowering for a woman of her stature? She’s one the hardest working women and one the few ones who are true businesswomen and can leverage deals like only men are still allowed too. And yet, she doesn’t think that’s enough? Her face has to look 25 again? Sigh…
– Where’s Gaga? I noticed (as in no more press releases and media reports) she never even bothers to tweet her ‘monsters’ or to even acknowledge her causes like bullying or human rights. I guess people are not important when she has nothing to promote right? Madonna does it whenever she can, not when she needs to promote something. It shows how Gaga is all about herself and very insincere. I’m sure when Artpop comes out, she’ll be yelling ‘peace and love again’ all to pump up her sales. And her monsters will eat it up.
Sorry guys but we’re all going to age. It’s gravity that gets you. Lifestyle certainly helps but there is nothing that is going to stop the aging process and unless you hang upside down for most of your life that face and body are going south.
Sadly, it’s not just gravity that causes us to sag as we age but regardless people need to get over it, aging is a part of life, deal with it people and stop acting like perpetual teenagers.
she looks like she’d fit right in with one of the hollywood housewives crew.. so disappointing to see her succumb to this. and those gloves…
As least she’s rockin’ an outfit that’s both appropriate and sexy (I mean, it still shows off her great bod).
She’s starting to look like Jocelyn-‘The Catwoman’- Wildenstein..
Madge, a wrinkle or two wont kill you.
I don’t understand what is up with her hair. The last three time she has been in public she has it styled like that. Did she get a bad cut and cannot wear it down? It looks awful that way and the color is harsh on her.
I was out at a club Friday and the screen was playing Papa Don’t Preach. Just looking at that video reminded me how great she looked then and how I don’t recognize her now. Its sad because she is freaking Madonna and she would still run the pop world face untouched.
I bet she also got her hands done…they were creepy
Gosh, looks a lot like steroid swelling to me. I have never had any kind of work done and when I take steroids for medical purposes, my face swells up, I always say, bigger than a billboard. Hope she is well!
Why did she do that to herself? She was aging really well up until a few years ago. A skinny body and a big puffy face is a dead giveaway.
She looks like she has steroid moonface to me. So here’s my wild conspiracy theory: she had a vanity heart transplant and failed to anticipate the side effects of the anti-organ-rejection drugs. OH MADGE.
“vanity heart transplant” LOL
I watched “The Marigold Hotel” several times. It was brilliant. The thing I noticed most is that the British actresses look their real age. Wrinkles, gray hair, thin lips. And they looked wonderful to me. Jane Fonda is just three years younger than Judi Dench and Maggie Smith, but she’s so nipped, tucked and botoxed you’d never know it.
Age happens to us all. It’s real. The only thing that stops aging is death. To parody youth when you are *not* young is your choice. I just happen to think it doesn’t work as well as you think it does, because now you look artificial. There is still beauty to be found in aged faces. A damn shame for the people who cannot or will not see it.
I love that that movie. I kept thinking, God I hope I age like those women. ( I’ll be 57 this year. I’m all natural too and so far, so good. ) They were all so beautiful to me; saggy necks, wrinkles and all. The beauty is in their character and acceptence of who they are.
Madonna looks quite a bit older than me now.
She was starting to look so much better after the chicken cutlets were calming down. Why did she go and mess with her face just when it started looking good? And I don’t think she cheaped out per se, I just think she went overboard again. Doesn’t matter how much you pay or how good or bad the doc is…too much is too much. She should have left well enough alone.
Joining the moonface and gloves chorus. Stevie Nicks wears them for the same reason. Her hands have always been 10 years older than the rest of her.
So… my uncle was good friends with Madonna in high school. When my grandmother saw the cover of “Like A Virgin”, she said, “I am so glad [my son] didn’t marry that girl.” Not that it was apparently ever an option, because according to my uncle, they were just friends, but…
Point? The woman he did marry, who is the same age as both him and Madonna, looked beautiful when he married her and looks beautiful now. Madonna used to be very pretty, and still would be if she had never messed with her face. This is what cosmetic surgery does to everyone who uses it. Very sad.
I LUV MADONNAH so much, her music ahh all about her. BUT… now she looks so ugly. I don’t know wtf is happening with her. She thinks it looks good naw? hah? I said NO, it doesn’t. Sorry4bd language but iom crack.
I agree about the fillers, but also think she’s put on a little bit of weight. As for budget, when she decided to get her face did, Madge probably felt like “fixing” whatever she thought were flaws–a lot of us want high cheekbones…
But most of all I think Madge is into HGH
She was just on that award show a few weeks ago and her face was not this puffy. How stupid, more fillers. They will go down, but she has never looked the same since her cheek implants and overuse of filler. She was so pretty on the Confessions Tour in 2006 and she was about 46. The cheek implants ruined the natursl bone structure of her face which allowed her eyes to look so big. The cheek implants and heavy filler just make her look older and harder and actually heavier with such a big face.
Those cheek implants are a travesty.
OMG her face!!! EEK! She looks like a bag of cotton balls :O
We are not meant to look 20 until we are in the grave. They look good for awhile and then there is one procedure too much.
I have been the biggest Madonna fan and was in awe of her when she was in her forties. The Re-Invention Tour and Confessions Tour were both amazing. She looked her age facewise mostly but I admired that. Whatever work she had done by the Confessions Tour was minimal and she just looked like a fresh, rested version of herself. At 50 on the Sweet & Sticky Tour I was stunned by her surgeried look. But her face was still thin, at least, but had overdone something. Maybe implants, maybe fillers back then. It all runs together for me anymore. And hen trying to fix the prominent cheek implants with more fillers and just a mess. She became a pillow face. It all started when she hit 50 and was going through a divorce. Then when they got it looking better after a couple of years she still looked older and harder with the implants and fillers but at least she was looking more normal, even pretty at times, much better but still different and odd at certain angles.
I have always posted this clip because this was just after she finished dancing and doing high kicks to a song and she still looked beautiful doing this beautiful ballad from the Ray of Light album in London on her Confessions Tour. I never thought Madonna would do what she’s done to her face. Sad and disappointing.
Madonna at 46 singing Substitute for Love – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aefh1ZEsAi8
Madonna in 2004 giving an award.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI8H5H-FK34
As if Madonna wouldn’t gladly spend millions to look young! This is clearly what happens when you do too much; the skin is an organ, it’s natural, and when you fill it with crap it will eventually revolt. The face shows what’s going on in the rest of the body as well, so maybe it is a reaction to something. Even a 20 year old can look puffy and awful, so imagine a face that hasn’t been left alone for many years. But Madonna cheaping out? Come on!
that Granny ‘D’ sucking pic is so gross.
i wish she would please stop…just stop.
poor Lourdes. 🙁
Madonna, you’re close to sixty, but it’s better than the alternative. Let it go already, girl.
She looks weird but also younger because it is a softer look. Still gross. I don’t get the obsessive plastic surgery need.
That face + gloves = Karl Lagerfeld (pale version).
I’m sure she has very good surgeons. She simply asks the impossible of them.
Her face reminds me of the actress who had fat injections placed all over her face, just under the skin. The result was very puffy and lumpy as I remember.
I think she looks pretty good for 55. Most 55 year olds don’t look that good. Comparing two people who use fillers, I think she looks just as attractive as Brandi Glanville and Brandi is 15 years younger than Madonna. Once the puffiness of her most current injections settles down, she will look better.
Sharon Stone looks amazing for her age. I think Sharon looks more like 40 than 55. Sharon is an anamoly. Sharon also looks better now than when she was younger. Also bioidentical hormones and human growth hormone (HGH) can make you look younger. A lot of celebrities use both. HGH can make your face look puffy too.
I would be PISSED if I paid good money to a Doctor to look like THAT!
Even though Madonna’s face is poofy. I still think she looks great! She looks good for her age and that’s all that matters peepz!
Jesus she is wearing something age appropriate for once!!!
I love her no matter what but I wish should would stop trying to be 25 its not a good look. She looks fantastic for her age she should wear it with dignity, she’s earned it!
I love it when people’s outsides look like their insides. Makes it much easier to tell who you are dealing with.
I know people who are good looking on the outside and horrible on the inside. Also vice versa, many not attractive on the outside and kind and caring on the inside. Beauty is always in the eye of the beholder.
Ive never liked her. Her horrible personality always ruined her ‘music” for me.
Her ridiculous cheek implants absoltely RUINED what little looks she had. I have no clue why a woman would do that to their face. She has looked hideous since those implants.
All I can say is I may now die of shock that she actually wore something age appropriate. Her hair is awful. A messy bun? Ok? But, thank you! Thank you! for the black slacks and black turtleneck!
SHe looks like a cross between Hillaey Clinton and Lindsay Lohan!
This is definitely one person who is fighting/not accepting the age process… hence not dressing appropriately. She always came across as so confident, but to not admit you are of a certain age is showing an insecure side and that alone is not attractive. As for the hairstyle, awful.
It bothers me. All this obsession with aging and spending so much money to look plastic.
Oh my word! Just looking at her face is painful! I could easily see her doing “Death Becomes Her” in real life. Ugh… >.< Not a good look, not a good look at all.
She was never going to age gracefully. She’s starting to get a Joan Rivers vibe about her. At least her ‘bits’ are covered for a change.
Do you notice that the female stars that seem to have the hardest time with aging both mentally and physically (and I’m thinking of Demi Moore and Nicole Kidman) all have teenaged/twenty-something daughters? Do you think there is something about seeing their daughters now looking and living as young, beautiful women that make it harder to face their own aging?
Yes Anne, I believe you are addressing a transitional period in women’s lives that absolutely has something to do with the struggle these women have as they age.
I have 4 teenage daughters, all have amazing bodies because they take after my husbands side of the family, not mine.
I am 52 and I was so comfortable being a young mom but now I’m an “old” mom. I look good, stay in shape etc. but every now and then….oh gosh the SADNESS that sweeps over me when they seem more confident and beautiful than they did the day before! All 4 are taller than me.
What keeps me at ease is knowing that I am teaching them HOW to grow old and it’s a part of my parenting job. So I never complain about my age or that I’m losing that pretty face.
I can do that for my girls. But I wonder if it is just so, so, much sadder for the Demi’s and Madonna’s.
Yes, it is harder for them because,1) they are in Phoneywood, 2)They are women. In Phoneywood, physical beauty and youth are more valued over talent. Society only values women for physical beauty, youth, and sex appeal. Men are valued for their earning power.In case it escaped anyone’s notice, very few male entertainers are having work done on their faces. The overwhelming majority of youth obsessed celebs are women, especially the music artists. Pop stars are getting younger and younger.Aging female celebs like Madonna and Demi also surround themselves with younger celebrities. You don’t see them around celebrities in their own age group, lest they be reminded that the ship of their youth set sail many, many years ago. It’s sad, but true.
This may have been mentioned before but it’s worth saying again. She’d never do anything budget, especially to her face. Filler injections can bust your face for a minimum of two weeks before all the swelling goes down. It’s likely she made the commitment to attend the event a long time ago, had fillers, etc. done, then had to appear in public before the new face settled in.
Lumpy, bumpy, faux filler face. The stuff of nightmares!
Can this be fixed?!
OMG!!! LOL!!!!! SHEOOKS SOOOOOOOO OLD!!
SHE DID IT THIS TIME!DIDNT KNOW WHEN TO STOP!!! SHE DESERVES IT ! SORRY!LOL! SHE NEED TO STAY HOME AND HIDE!!
CAT LADY MADONNA!!
She looks REALLY pulled around the eyes, so much so that it’s undermining any undereye work she may have had. My guess is swelling from a mini facelift or something.
I thought it was a blonde Ashley Judd. They’re all looking like Stepford wives.