In recent photos, Madonna revealed that her traditional blonde hair had been changed for a different look, and the Vogue singer revealed what the motivation was for the change.
Singer-songwriter Madonna looked different in a series of photos that she shared with fans on social media over the weekend. She has also revealed the motivation behind her recent decision to have the makeover.
Madonna, 66, shared a series of selfies on her Instagram Story yesterday. She ditched her signature blonde hair in favour of going brunette in the photos. In one of the posts, she told her followers on the platform that there was a poignant reason being her sporting the new hairstyle.
She revealed to her followers that the look was inspired by her late mother Madonna Fortin, who died when the Vogue singer was five. The Grammy Award winner wrote over one of the photos: “I missed my Mother so I channeled her.”
Following her mother’s death, Madonna was raised by her father Silvio ‘Tony’ Ciccone, 93, and her late step-mother Joan Ciccone, who died aged 81 last year. Joan, who had briefly been a housekeeper for the family, married father-of-six Tony in 1966, three years on from his first wife’s death.
Madonna told Rolling Stone in 1984: “It was hard to accept her as an authority figure and also accept her as being the new number-one female in my father’s life. [He] wanted us to call her Mom, not her first name. I remember it being really hard for me to get the word mother out of my mouth.”
As reported by Hello! magazine, Madonna reflected on losing her mother in the Sky documentary Becoming Madonna. She shared in the 2024 film, which documents her rise to fame: “It was the greatest tragedy of my life.”
She continued, “It felt like a part of my heart was ripped out,” the outlet reported. I was forced to learn [what was going on] quickly and try to understand it. It was just too much for a child, Madonna continued, adding.
Speaking about her upbringing, Madonna told TIME magazine in 1985: “I was the oldest girl so I had a lot of adult responsibilities. […] I really saw myself as the quintessential Cinderella. You know, I have this stepmother and I have all this work to do and it’s awful and I never go out and I don’t have pretty dresses.”
The recent post about missing her late mother comes a week after Madonna celebrated Mother’s Day in the US with her family. Madonna, who has six children, shared at the time that she had spent the weekend with five of her kids and revealed the “best gift” that she had received for the occasion.
She recalled how she spent five of her six children over Mother’s Day weekend. Horseback riding and sunshine laughter. soccer, and music’s sound! The gift of being untiring and loving to one another was the best.
Madonna continued, “You also create your own debate team when you raise children to be unique and opinionated. In a few words, motherhood is impossible to describe. Nothing can make you better. Happy Mother’s Day! To all the women who are engaged in heavy lifting.
