Celebrity bodies: Madonna
The one-time Material Girl is now 45 and she certainly looked fit in her recent publicity shots for her latest set of concert dates, called The re-Invention Tour. It begins in Los Angeles on May 24.
Framework:
The 5ft 4in star weighs 8st. She gets embarrassed when looking at old photographs because she had such big eyebrows. They are now well plucked.
As for her hair, she admits it has been “every colour known to man. Every shade of black, brown, red, pink. Every shade of blonde – you name it. I’m only glad it didn’t fall out!”
Will she ever have plastic surgery? “I don’t know, but if I do I want the guy who did Catherine Deneuve. She looks incredible.” She surprised fans with her new look at this year’s Grammy Awards, sparking off rumours of cosmetic surgery – heartily denied, of course.
Exercise:
There was a time Madonna spent two hours a day weight-lifting and jogging – then she became pregnant with Lourdes and she stopped it for good. These days she gets private lessons in Ashtanga yoga, the most challenging form of the discipline.
Diet:
Switching from white to brown rice helped her to lose four pounds in as many weeks. “There is hidden sugar lurking in white rice,” she says. She eats lots of small meals in order not to get hungry and overeat. She limits red meat, but when giving dinner parties, she has been known to send for Japanese Kobe beef, costing £100 a pound from cattle fed on beer and massaged.
Mostly she eats fish, chicken, vegetables and fruit. She loves broccoli, baked potatoes and skimmed milk. When pregnant, she had cravings for poached eggs and oranges. In moments of weakness she has candy.
When touring, she keeps apples and bananas in hotel suites for quick, healthy snacks. She says husband Guy has turned her on to that most English of pastimes – drinking ale in a pub with her mates. “I didn’t start drinking until I met Guy,” she says.
Love-life:
Since she divorced Sean Penn in 1989, she dated high profile stars Warren Beatty, Prince and Vanilla Ice. Her relationship with fitness trainer Carlos Leon produced daughter Lourdes.
The key man in her life, however, has been British film director Guy Ritchie, 10 years her junior. They are married and have a son, Rocco. They have settled in England, with a town house in central London and a £9m country estate in Wiltshire.
Source: The Journal/icNewcastle