Madonna Doesn’t Want Daughter to Follow in Her Footsteps November 30, 2004
“Queen of pop Madonna is desperate for daughter Lourdes not to follow in her raunchy footsteps. Earlier in her career, the material girl made her name with saucy semi-naked stage routines, simulated oral sex with a wine bottle in documentary In Bed with Madonna, and even published a book with steamy full-frontal naked pictures of herself. But, now she has found her spiritual side, the 46-year-old singer is keen for eight-year-old Lourdes to find a more virtuous path through life. During a recent interview with CNN, host Richard Quest asked, ‘If your daughter Lourdes decided to prance around the stage in her underwear, singing and hollering, would you approve?’ Madonna replied, ‘If she was an adult, there’s, you know, not a lot I could do about it. She would be free to make that choice.’ Quest responded, ‘Would you approve? If she behaved like you, if she mirrored your life to some extent, as a mother, who’s now essentially found a spiritual way of life, would you approve?’ To which Madonna conceded, ‘Probably not.’” —FemaleFirst.co.uk (UK)
It’s no surprise that Madonna wouldn’t want her daughter to be flaunting her flesh the way that she did in public. Regardless of whether or not they’ve undergone any sort of spiritual rebirth, parents just don’t say, “Why yes, I hope my little girl grows up to be a stripper.” You don’t hear proud papas exclaim, “Gosh, I hope my little darling shakes her boobs in front of millions of screaming teenagers.” Sometimes you read a story in the newspaper about a mother who prostitutes her own daughters — but even in cases such as that, the mother probably doesn’t really want her girls to flaunt themselves so shamelessly. If she pimps them, it’s less an expression of parental ambition than of drug addiction.
So you think Lourdes will end up shaking her booty one day? Probably. Setting aside the overwrought circumstances of her celebrity, Madonna seems like she’s probably a good parent. Maybe Lourdes will become a veterinarian, or maybe she’ll join the Peace Corps, or maybe she’ll just keep a low profile. But at the same time, would anyone be surprised ten years from now to find pictures of her doing something shocking or risqué? After all, youth will be youth — and girls, as another 1980s pop icon once crooned, just want to have fun.
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