Nypost on Vogue magazine
Madonna has gone from Material Girl to Lady of the Manor.
In an amazing – almost surreal – feature in the August edition of Vogue, the aging pop temptress comes off like an extra in a fox-hunting documentary, lording it over her stately 18th century English country estate near Dorset.
Gone are the trademark flesh-baring get-ups – in are chiffon dresses, cashmere cardigans and a family of three as perfectly turned-out country royals. Instead of bumping and grinding with Ingrid Casares, Madge, 46, is feeding chickens, overseeing flocks of sheep and surveying her 1,000-acre-plus property from atop a thoroughbred horse.
“It’s a very physical place, a place for adventure… and as far as the eye can see, you can’t see another house. It’s a kind of buffer against the world,” Madonna says.
A buffer, that is, until you spread it across 18 pages of a magazine. Why would the privacy-conscious superstar want to show off the bucolic, $15 million residence she shares with film-director hubby Guy Ritchie, 36, and their two kids, Lourdes, 8, and Rocco, 4?
“This is a property where people in the area already hunt and shoot, so there is an element of the public there,” said Madonna’s spokeswoman, Liz Rosenberg. “And there’s no question that she has great security.”
Amazingly, mama Madonna doesn’t even want to avoid the press while snuggling in bed with her kids – her sheets replicate the pages of a London newspaper.
Meanwhile, Rosenberg said the chickens and sheep at the house aren’t just props. “She didn’t bring them in from Central Casting… They live there. The sheep act as sort of organic lawnmowers,” she said.
Madonna tells the mag that the home “is a reflection of me and my husband in many ways, because it reflects our willingness to make a commitment – not necessarily to each other, but to the idea of having a home somewhere, instead of living like gypsies.”
From the New York Post