Posts Tagged ‘Madonna’

Rocco Ritchie, 6, visits mom Madonna on the London set of her directorial short Filth and Wisdom on May 24.

Source: In Touch, June 11 issue, pg 16-17

Update:Madonna’s rep has denied the rumor, saying,

Madonna is indeed going to Africa to continue her work with the RaisingMalawi organization. She is overseeingthe building of a children’s health care center.

She is absolutely not adopting another baby. I know that has been a rumor ever since she started the adoption process with her son David but it just isn’t true.

Originally posted 8:09 am: Life & Style is reporting that Madonna is planning to adopt again, with husband Guy Ritchie. The celebrity parents who already raise, Lourdes, 9, Rocco, 6 and David, 18 months, are said to be looking at adopting again. Madonna has apparently travelled to Malawai so that David can get to know his father;

She wants David to have a relationship with his biological father.

And this visit isn’t just a vacation, but rather apparently a mission to repair her image before she goes through with the proceedings for another adoption.

She is going under the guise of a vacation, but she’s not on a vacation – she’s on a mission. She intends to adopt another baby soon, but first she wants to repair her image from all the bad press she got over David’s adoption. She plans of having David’s father being part of their extended family. She wants to show that her adoption was an unselfish act of love and not what it was portrayed as in the media.

Madonna’s rep confirmed that she is travelling to Malawai but denied any plans for an adoption.

Source: Life & Style via Just Jared and PEOPLE

Thanks to CBB reader Aline.

What do you think – will Madonna adopt again?

David Banda Ritchie could be the next Tony Hawk. The Daily Mail has photos of David, nearly 18 months, enjoying a ride on his skateboard with his nanny while his mom Madonna watches on. Says a family friend:

Skateboard rides are David’s latest trick. He is also already allowed to sit on a pony – obviously being steadied and not on his own. Madonna is keen to get him riding and even playing polo when he is old enough. She is very much into getting the kids out into the open air and getting them involved with animals. A good day out would be for them all to have a picnic out in the grounds of Ashcombe (their country house). David is a happy little boy and gets on famously with the other two.

David’s older sister and brother, Lourdes, 10, and Rocco, 6, were also reportedly skateboarding around in the street near the family’s London home.

Madonna and Guy Ritchie have been married for six years.

Looks like Britney Spears isn’t the only celebrity mom making car safety errors in judgement.  As soon of our readers noticed last week, Madonna and family loaded up into a Cadillac Escalade SUV after Kabbalah services in Los Angeles.

A witness told Us Weekly, "There was no car seat. (Madonna) sat in the middle row, and they left with David on her lap." X17online has photos of the family in the car but some of our readers have pointed out that they can see a car seat.

Then the next day, Madonna sat in the middle of the car with Rocco not buckled up.

Madonna’s representative denied any wrongdoing, saying, "Proper security measures are always taken for Madonna’s children."

UK MSN has a new article on celebrity mothers and their children. The first soon-to-be-mother they mention is Charlotte Church, who announced her pregnancy last week. Paparazzi is the main issue they mention in regard to Charlotte; the price for the first pictures, and how any new ‘mum mishaps’ will be "amplified ten-fold if they occur within view of the parazzi."

Next if Britney Spears. The star recently entered rehab, with one of the main speculated reasons being how she is constantly hounded by the paparazzi and how every mistake is captured.

Carlos Leon is reportedly upset that his daughter, Lourdes, 10, has lost her New York accent. In Madonna’s concert film that was out last year, Lourdes "sounded like a New York kid," yet at the premiere of Arthur and the Invisibles last week, she had a "full-on British accent."

Madonna’s rep replies,

It wouldn’t be surprising if Madonna’s daughter has some sort of English accent, since she lives in London most of the time. To me, she always sounds a little American and a little British. All this seems perfectly normal to me. What can I tell you, she’s a natural beauty – no surprise there. She’s frankly a very unspoiled and lovely child, and for that I give credit to Madonna, Guy Ritchie, and Carlos.

Source: NY Daily News

Madonna, Guy Ritchie, and two out of three kids, Lourdes, 10, and Rocco, 6, were out last night for the premiere of Arthur and the Invisibles, which Madonna lent her voice to.

Source: E! Online and iVillage

Thanks to CBB readers Bella and Corinne.

Update: CBB commentors have made us aware that Yohane makes money by giving interviews to the press about David. While some news outlets have refused to pay, others have. To read more about this, click here.

Originally posted 11 am: The adoption drama for Madonna continues. The popstar’s new son’s biological father reportedly wants to know how his son, 1-year-old David, is doing with Madonna and her family.

"I don’t have her phone and mailing addresses. All I want is to find out how my son is but I don’t know how I can do it," Yohane Banda told Malawi’s Daily Times newspaper. "I only talked to her once at the  High Court and I want to talk to her now and find out about my child." 

Madonna’s adoption is not completely official yet. She signed interim adoption papers, allowing David to stay with her for 18 months under the watchful eye of Malawian officials, who will then decide whether he can stay with the Ritchies.

For more on David, click here.

Source: Reuters

by auditioning contributor Nicole

Now that she’s added David to her brood and is apparently considering adding yet another Malawian orphan to the bunch, Madonna may be acting a bit TOO baby crazy these days according to MSNBC’s Jeannette Walls.

Husband Guy Ritchie, although in love with his new son, is apparently not-so-happy about his wife’s desire to continue to expand their family.  Their six-year marriage seems to have been on the rocks long before little David entered the picture, and now the strain is worse than ever.

A UK source reports, "Guy doesn’t want to go through all the media attention again which he hates. Although he loves little David as his own, he thinks they should be both concentrating on their own relationship at this time, not adding a new one."

Will Madonna take a step back and work on her marriage or will she blast on full-steam ahead towards another adoption?

Source: MSNBC

by auditioning contributor Sarah M.

Madonna and Guy Ritchie’s adoption of David Banda, 1, is already being looked into by human rights groups in Malawi, David‘s country of birth. Now there’s yet another obstacle for Madonna.  To circumcise the tot or not?

Even though the adoption has not been finalized, Madonna considers David her new son, and so she wants to raise him following Kabbalah custom. Kabbalah  follows Jewish practices and for David to be considered Jewish, David will need to be circumcised.

David’s biological father, Yohanna Banda, 32, has already had David baptized as a Christian.  He said, “This goes against the Christian religion and is not something we would ever consider in Africa. We don’t ever get circumcised here. I would urge her to think again.”

In November, Madonna said “I’m going to adopt another Malawian child very quickly. A baby girl this time, in order to redress the balance.” So, the public criticism and legal battle seems to be worth it!

In the western world, at least In the United States, newborn boys are typically circumcised in the hospital before they go home.  The procedure is done for medical/traditional reasons, not religious.  Jewish baby boys (of observant families) are usually circumcised when they are eight days old as part of a ceremony called the brit milah (or bris). 

If you are a Christian, did you circumcise your son?  If so, why do you think David’s father said it "goes against the Christian religion"? (According to wikipedia, the Feast of the Circumcision of Our Lord is a Feast Day celebrated on January 1, commemorating the circumcision of Christ.)

Also, if this story is true, do you think it’s right for Madonna to circumcise David now?

Circumcision is a very controversial topic.  You are welcome to express your views but please be respectful of other people’s decisions.

Source:  The Sun Online , Photo: People, with permission