Madonna shares heartbreaking motivation behind new makeover after going brunette
Madonna ditched her usual blonde hair for a different look in photos shared recently and the Vogue singer has opened up about the motivation behind the makeover
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."
According to the outlet, she added: "It was like a part of my heart was ripped out. I was forced to grow up fast and try to understand [what was happening]." Madonna went on to suggest that "it was just too much for a child".
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 told fans: "I spent Mother's Day weekend with 5 of my 6 children. Sunshine laughter, horseback riding. soccer, and the sound of music! The best gift they gave me was the gift of not arguing and being loving to one another."
Madonna continued: "When you raise children to be unique and opinionated, you also create your own debate team!!! Motherhood could never be described with a few words. Nothing can prepare you. Happy Mother's Day !! To All the Women out there doing the Heavy Lifting."
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