The singer adopted David amid a storm of controversy and it’s been reported she intends to adopt a baby girl from Malawi.
Madonna to adopt second baby? - Nov 15 2006
It seems Madonna is planning to adopt a second baby from Africa.
The pop diva wants to take in a baby girl, who would be a little sister to her biological children, Lourdes, ten, and Rocco, six, and adopted Malawian tot David Banda.
Asked in an interview if she wanted another child, the 48-year-old said: "Yes, absolutely. I’m going to adopt another Malawian child very quickly.
"A baby girl this time, in order to redress the balance."
In the interview with French magazine Paris Match, the singer said her children would accompany her to Africa on her next trip.
"The next time I go to Africa to visit the orphanage, I am going to take the children with me," she said.
"I want to open their minds to the rest of the world."
Earlier this week it was revealed Madge must wait to find out if human rights groups in Malawi can challenge her adoption of 14-month-old David.
A coalition of 67 organisations claims the "bending of laws and fast-tracking" allowed her to adopt the child.
The judge will rule next Monday on whether to allow the legal challenge.
Delay on Madge adoption ruling - Nov 14 2006
Madonna must wait another week to find out if human rights groups in Malawi can challenge her adoption of a 14-month-old boy. (see photos)
A coalition of 67 organisations claims "bending of laws and fast-tracking" allowed the pop star to adopt David Banda.
A first hearing was adjourned today at Malawi’s High Court in Lilongwe.
The judge will rule next Monday on whether to allow the legal challenge.
The human rights groups claim Madonna has used her wealth to bypass the usual laws which state adoptive parents must live in the African country for 18 months.
The singer and hubby Guy Ritchie were granted an interim order on October 12 allowing them temporary custody of David.
The child was then granted a passport and flown to Madonna’s London home.
David’s father, peasant farmer Yohane Banda, has claimed he didn’t know the singer would be taking his son "for good".
Meanwhile, U2 frontman Bono has hit out at Madonna’s critics.
He told The Sun: "Madonna should be applauded for helping to take a child out of the worst poverty imaginable and giving him a better chance in life.
"Baby David is lucky to have been adopted by someone who can give him a chance of survival in this world and I don’t think it’s fair that people are criticising her."
Madonna’s pap bruise - Nov 9 2006
It seems Madonna is nursing a sore cheek after a jostling from a paparazzi photographer led to a bruise on her face.
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The following year Madonna broke away from Kamins and recorded Holiday which went straight in to the American top 20 and was a hit across Europe. She cemented her raunchy image with Like A Virgin, her first US number one, and Material Girl with it’s iconic video. By this time Madonna was becoming one of the most emulated and best loved artists in the world and she became even more popular thanks to her part in Live Aid and a high profile marriage to Sean Penn.
The pop diva followed up her success with several singles from the True Blue album and turned her hand to acting for the first time in the poorly received A Certain Sacrifice and of course, Desperately Seeking Susan. Her first real flop was alongside her husband in the laughable Shanghai Surprise. Her failure’s in the film department didn’t stop David Mamet from casting her in a Broadway production of Speed the Plow - by this time talent or no, Madonna’s was name that guaranteed attention.
1989 saw the singer court controversy with the video for Like A Prayer, featuring a black Jesus, which outraged and shocked the Catholic church and caused Pepsi to cancel a sponsorship deal. But far from ruining her career, this stunt saw her become the icon that we know today. The 1990s were the pinnacle of Madonna’s success, her divorce from Sean Penn pushing her further in to the lime light, beginning with a part in Dick Tracy opposite Warren Beatty and a fantastic soundtrack album alongside featuring hit song Vogue. Documentary film Truth or Dare and her Blonde Ambition tour (with that pointy bra) followed with further controversy.
In 1992 she signed a multi million pound deal with Time Warner guaranteeing the release of music, films and books through her own record label, Maverick. She made the most of the deal with picture book Sex, which caused another controversy but rocketed up the bestsellers charts nonetheless. Erotica was her first album for years though not to generate a US number one. People thought that perhaps Madonna had gone too far with her need to shock, and perhaps she had realised it too as her next album was far mellower and a part in Evita in 1996 made her bankable again.
Later that year she fell pregnant with Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, daughter of her personal trainer. But far from slowing her work, having a child only seemed to spur Madonna on, she released the runaway success, Ray of Light which produced hit after hit and recorded Beautiful Stranger for the second Austin Powers movie. she also starred alongside Rupert Everett in romantic comedy The Next Best Thing.
It was around this time that Madonna met British director Guy Ritchie - the man who would change her life. They had son Rocco in 2000 and they married in 2002 after Madonna moved permanently to England, took to wearing flat caps and drinking tea. The title track of her album Music gave her a transatlantic number one hit. Collaborations with Ritchie, especially their film Swept Away, have generally been unsuccessful but Madonna’s music career continues to go from strength to strength, her latest album American Life has been a worldwide hit and she has even found time to pen a children’s book, The English Roses. Now, an honorary Brit and devout follower of Kaballah, Madonna lives with her family in Marylebone and Wiltshire. She also owns a ?4 million Spanish-style villa in Beverly Hills, a house in Miami and a duplex overlooking Central Park in New York.
(Updated April 04)
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