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Outtakes From Madonna’s W Magazine Photo Shoot Reveal The Truth (photos)

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New un-altered outtakes from the W magazine photo shoot in which Madonna met her baby Jesus have just surfaced and they’re not all too flattering to either the material girl or her new boy toy. Madge is definitely looking every millisecond of her 51 years in this shot, sporting whiskers and an old lady scowl that would make a nun proud. Moreover, where’s her neck? Did it collapse under the weight of her giant noggin? Plus, I’m not sure if the whole Joan Crawford thing she’s got going on here is intentional or not, but either way the only thing her mug could inspire these days is major shrinkage and speaking of shrinkage…apparently this kid’s named baby Jesus for a reason.

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Now I know she’s 51 years old and everyone inevitably succumbs to the ravages of aging, but she continues to strut her brittle hollow bones around as if she’s still the sex bomb and at this point it’s more than a tad revolting. In general, there’s just something obscene about all these comically airbrushed images of older female celebrities we’re bombarded with on a daily basis. In an attempt to extend their careers and remain relevant to younger audiences, these women hide their true appearance with massive amounts of plastic surgery, pancake make-up and Photoshop. Of course, it’s always been that way to an extent, but nowadays it’s past the point of ridiculousness. I mean back in the day, the older gals of Hollywood didn’t waste their time competing with kids about who’s got the tightest ass. No way man, they were playing dowdy mothers on sitcoms or maybe starring in the occasional Love Boat!

I’m not saying that people should just give up on trying to look their best when they get older, but all the Pilates in the world ain’t gonna turn back the clock. At some point you’ve got to accept the fact that you’re getting old. Some people try to rationalize their fixation on youth and looking younger as some kind of empowering thing, that’s how that whole “cougar” movement began, as a way of saying “hey I’m a fossil, but I’m still sexual, and powerful and attractive.” Well hell, I agree, why throw in the towel if you’ve still got game? But is it necessary to physically change your appearance through surgery and smoke and mirrors in order to do so? On top of all of this, I’m sick and tired of watching all these aging women play out their insecurities in the public eye. Everyone’s insecure – keep it to yourself already! As far as I’m concerned, this whole cougar movement in Hollywood is simply being used as a way of extending people’s careers which have already taken up entirely too much of our time. Courtney Cox? Are you kidding me? Haven’t we had enough of her? Do you mean to tell me 10 years of her on “Friends” wasn’t enough for you?

Now I know many women might say that it’s MEN who are the ones responsible for these women altering their faces and bodies, that they feel pressure to change their appearance in order to be able to work or even attract a partner, but I disagree – these women are getting off on it. It’s not about the men, it’s about THEM. The sad truth is, all of that plastic surgery doesn’t make any of them look better, just different and in most cases just… odd. As I was watching the Golden Globes the other day, it was like looking at Madame Tussauds wax museum.

We’re all busy dying people, and everyone winds up looking like a raisin (if they’re lucky that is), it’s all part of being human. To everything (turn, turn, turn) there is a season and a time to accept your sagging ass.

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Just your average, ordinary, every day malcontented misanthrope. My disdain for the current state of popular culture permeates my very core. Hence, I feel obligated to tug on your coat about it until you’re just as nauseated as I am. ...

  • Freddy

    Branwyn Lancourt the writer of the retarded sexiest article seems to be very unhappy! There is nothing wrong with a woman or man wanting to feel and look good, at any age! There is no Golden rule that says people have to stop living at a certian age. Narrow minded weak people seem to have many opinions which most of us could do with out! Madonna can do what she wants to her body. Besides, we all know who she is. But, you (Branwyn Lancourt) on the other hand, we know or care nothing about!

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    Sexiest? If you’re gonna accuse me of being sexist, you have to learn how to spell it first my friend.

  • curtis

    Brawnwyn, why were you given permission to write this ad. What a waste of a topic. Trim that pube you call a moustache and stop making fun of other, established, accomplished people.

  • Palafox

    I’m with you Brawnyn, and men who attempt to evade the physical results of normal aging appear similarly ridiculous (Billy Crystal, I’m talking to you).

    Nature wants babies, so smooth skin, great hair, and other “attractive” features probably evolved to last as long about as our peak fertility. As we age, we rotate out of the genetic marketplace and our need to demonstrate these visual clues to our mating potential diminishes.

    Those who try to thwart this inevitable process through surgery OR embarrassing magazine spreads have every right to do so. But they’d look a lot less stupid if they didn’t.

  • MONICA

    So what ??? every old ugly rich male have 20 years old bimbos too , so WHAT ?? HAVE LIFE AND LIVE HER ALONE

  • MONICA

    AND BRONVIN , HEJ , WHAT ABOUT EVERY 17 YEARS OLD HAVE FACE BOOBS AND NOSE SURGERY , AND BOTTOX , LIPS DONE , PLEASE YOU IDIOT , EVERY MAN OVER 40 LOOK DISGUSTING NUDE , SO SHE IS LUCKY . HAVE SO BIG … AND HIS SEXY BODY . PLEASE YOU IDIOT , PEOPLE SHOULD GO FOR SURGERY , WHEN 40 UP IS NORMAL , NO 17 ,,, , IS SICK . YOU STUPID

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    Curtis – This column is called FAME HYPE, hence this topic is extremely relevant.

    Pala – I’ve had people tell me how bad billy crystal is nowadays, I haven’t seen his new face, gotta go check it out…

    Monica – I wouldn’t necessarily say that’s a fact, either way I have a life and it’s ti,e for HER to leave US alone and retire her tired, old,. bony ass.

  • Anonymous

    What an inane article(?) er… posting. The writer scrutinizes Maddona’s scowl and whiskers then attempts to consider the reasons why older celebrities are going under the knife so often. Its because of judgmental people such as he pulling them apart in tabloids and blogs, moron.

    Yes, it rather sad that people have become so insecure, feeding their desire for such uniformity. When we learn how to celebrate our unique attributes and the passing of time, then perhaps this social disease will find its end. In the meantime, people like the intellectually challenged author of this posting do their best to prolong it.

    Get a real job and put your energy towards something more meaningful than petty celebrity gossip. This kind of stuff is truly revolting.

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    Monica – You’re not remotely coherent, stay in school don’t be no fool.

    ANonymous – I scrutinized her looks only to highlight the fact that all the Pilates and photoshop in the world can’t hide the truth – everyone gets old. So when we’re made to endure these endless altered images of older celebrities airbrushed to the hilt, we are being lied to. As for what I’m writing about, again it’s called FAME HYPE, why are you reading if you’re not interested in the subject matter? Go find a Madonna forum and enjoy yourself, life’s too short!

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  • susan

    what a dumb article. madonna has been called old since she turned 30 years old by assholes like you, branwyn lancourt! you are repeating what has already been said many times before. every single photo that appears in magazines is retouched. get over it! idiot!!!

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    That’s horse shit, she was still relatively early in her career when she was 30, no one was calling her old back then.. As for every photo being retouched, hat’s my point… what kind of message does it send? She’s old, she looks it, it’s time to move on from the whole sex goddess deal already!

  • gratuitous

    Methinks Mr. Branwyn could use some face rearranging himself. He looks like a caricature gone horribly wrong. Stop picking on accomplished artists. You sound like a bitter fool.

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    Methinks yethinks ye be funny, unfortunately for thee ye be a muldoon!

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  • Why am I up at this hour?

    Branwyn – do you think we’re reaching a point where plastic surgery is just a natural part of our lives? That a little nip and tuck will be as normal as a dentist visit? The only reason I ask is there seems to be an anger directed at women over 40 that go under the knife. Maybe the mature, accomplished woman should be given free reign to be as big of an asshole as her idiot daughter going wild in Cancun. Young women are objectified all of the time; why can’t the cougars do it as well? I see a lot of humor in it. They’ve lived through their 20′s/30′s and they’re getting work done to emulate what they used to look like – maybe in the hopes of living it our differently the next time around. I’ve probably completely drifted away from your original topic.

  • John

    I think Madonna looks better before any airbrushing takes place. She’s in a very natural aging state, and still quite beautiful. Who’s Branwyn Lancourt? Now, who’s Madonna? Enough said.

  • ivyleaguer

    I don’t what the reviewer is talking about her skin looks flawless. not a wrinkle in sight. Yeah, her scowlish expression doesn’t do much but she looks great. Sorry, I know hot 21-year olds who have to wax some whiskers, it’s a common problem among women. That hardly makes anyone old, that just makes Madonna human. And it’s good to know she lets herself go once in a while, busy woman, kids work, charity work. yeah, who cares if she doesn’t wax on schedule all the time. She looks Bloody Fantastic!!!!

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    up at this hour – In hollywood it’s definitely far more prevalent than ever before, and I think botox has even filtered down to the middle classes.. Pretty soon everyone that can afford it will look like a marionette.

    John – Who’s Branwyn Lancourt… that’s a very existential question…Gonna have to think about it. As for her natural aging state, you’re way wrong. SHe’s had major plastic surgery and she still looks like thhat.

    Ivyleaguer – her face has been lifted.

  • AStrangeHorse

    Madonna can’t evade age but she has evaded something far worse – becoming boring . . . We are STILL focused on her . . . to miss that is to misunderstand why she became a superstar in the first place. Her face can fall off (and from the looks of these photos, it may happen soon) but that unusual charisma hasn’t dimmed a bit. You may want her to go away or change but you are too young to remember how incredibly different she was from the rest of Hollywood when she obliterated the 80′s. Long live Madonna, young, middle-aged, or old!!!

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    STrangehorse – Well thank you for the compliment, but I do remember Madonna from the 80s, I grew up in he 80s and yes she was innovative and provocative, but where we disagree is that I do think she’s become boring and I suppose that’s the part of my general point, all of this hyper obsessiveness on remaining young, which is far and away more prevalent than at any other time in history, is BORING… There’s nothing intrinsically interesting about youth unless you’re young… The fact that Madonna is cavorting around with “jr” looking like a sad nun is not interesting in the slightest… she’s no longer provocative, just irritating. The whole Mrs. Robinson has been done and those conventions and constructs have been played around with and examined in far more interesting intelligent ways.. and by the way, in The Graduate Anne Bancroft was a whoppin.. 35 years old when it was filmed… Madonna was never an intellectual, it was all about her looks, sexuality and enormous confidence… at 51 (soon to be 52) it just seems tired and irrelevant.

  • DRATER

    Your blog is pretty damn SEXIST.

    For the record, her low body fat and arms scare me, not the face.

    But I have to say something since i share the same birthday with Madonna. She is an amazingly brilliant business women and talent to be able to keep her gig going for so many years and being on her game, without looking like some of the tragedies (MJ) that we have seen. She is the exception, and is inspirational.

    Also all 25 year olds use to always look better than 50 year olds, but no more– Its because many girls at 25 are letting themselves go, and its because of older women having the discipline, regularly exercise and if you have the $$, some cosmetic help–if someone on the fence about really WORKING to keep fit, healthy and as astounding as one can look at 50 reads your blog, they might give up and let themselves go to hell.

    I don’t know what the Cougar thing is, but i will tell you, my mother turned heads when she was 60, and not in a way that she thought she was 25. Also, and just curious, how old are you, and what is your fitness and nutrition, did you play sports, do you smoke, drink? I am curious about the perspective of the writer…you seem to pay a lot of attention to women whom you say we as a society should ignore.

    So I am off to drink my protein drink and go for a hike and do squats because my ass does not sag…in fact i am in better shape than when i had children 18 years ago And if you and your readers don’t think that mental gymnastics, keeping physically fit (which is ten times harder at 50) is the smart thing to do, even if it to retain ones youthful vitality to travel and do more and be attractive, you just might find yourself DEAD wrong.

    Everything in moderation.

    ~D

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    “I’m not saying that people should just give up on trying to look their best when they get older, but all the Pilates in the world ain’t gonna turn back the clock. At some point you’ve got to accept the fact that you’re getting old.”

    As I said above, staying fit is great, but this constant obsession with youth is unhealthy, on top of everything it de-values the positives of getting old i.e wisdom, self-awareness, inner peace, etc… People like Madonna are all about THEMSELVES it’s sheer narcissim and that to me is just a bore.. Like I said, there’s nothing intrinsically interesting about youth unless you’re young. As far as my own perspective, I keep fit, but to me therfe are far more important things in life besides this infantile fixation we have as a society on the superficial aspects of life.

  • arongaga

    “where’s her neck”? lool. this is an altered photo. photoshop works also in making someone ugly. anyway we may not like all those injections things and eberything, but we all know Madonna is a super healthy woman and that her energy on stage isn’t provided by botox. yesterday she performed like a prayer on tv and didn’t look like the photo. she was simply shining and beautifull.I hate this constant obsession about Madonna’s age !

  • April

    This is a very altered photo. Madonna is a perfectionist about everything. Are you really falling for her having facial hair that gives the impression she has a shadow moustache, and a hairy chin? LOL!!! Don’t believe everything you see. Did she look like this last night on DH TV???

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    Dunno… looks pretty real to me.. I mean what looks fake to you, that’s her face!

  • gratuitous

    It looks like you’re going to shoot down any positive thing people are going to say about Madonna. What’s your truck against her? Or is it that she represents older women who have shown disdain towards you. There’s some underlying headology about this anger of yours.

  • deanna

    Excuse me, but being called a cougar is an insult to older women — it’s not a “movement.” What gave you that idea?

    And Courtney Cox isn’t even old enough to be lumped in that cougar category – that’s what makes the show ridiculous. What planet are you on?

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    Gratuitous – I just stated whatg my truck against her is… How many different ways shall I explain it?

    deanna – I dunno… Courtney Cox is 46, how old do you have to be to qualify as a cougar?

  • SezBear

    Madonna IS old. She might have been called old since she was 30, but in that industry, thats when the woman are getting old.
    And sure, thats wrong. But she IS old now. I mean, she still has plenty of years left. But she doesnt fit in now. Now she trys to hard.
    She wants to be a sex bomb. And frankly, looking at her, and knowing her age disgusts me. Has she ever heard of growing old gracefully?
    In her time she was gorgeous, and heck for her age shes not that bad. But stop with the photo shoots where shes trying to be sexy. Stop with the photos of her making out with people. Stop publicly trying to make yourself a sex icon.
    No one is going to forget who Madonna is. Everyone knows her.
    So fuck, settle down, find something to invest your money in and shut it :D
    I know your all going to hate me for this, but hey :]
    xx

  • BillyVanDahm

    For the idiots who call Branwyn an idiot and a nobody you need to pick up a copy of Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by the band Johnny Bravo. I’d rather to the F-King runs his fingers against the chalkboard than anything Madonna has ever done.

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    Awww.. you’re too kind!

  • Piale

    The photo is not real. Where did you get the picture Branwyn? Did you alter it with photoshop yourself to have something to talk about? Who are you? Instead of talking about accomplished, talented and beautiful artists like Madonna, go clean the beaches, and have cosmetic surgery yourself. You need it!

  • http://www.zeitgeistyreport.com/ Branwyn Lancourt

    You morons are delusional… IT’S HER!!!!!! I didn’t alter anything, what are you an idiot? Wait a minute, strike that, I know you’re an idiot.

    Madonna has HAD plastic surgery and she still looks like that, Madonna for her entire career has made her appearance front and center, part and parcel to who she is… All I say is at a cerain age you have to accept who you are. If you don’t you just start looking ridiculous. To me, this photo looks ridiculous.

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  • gratuitous

    Yeah, I guess you’ve accepted that whatever headshot you place here, it still wouldn’t measure up to that shrivelled thing beside Madonna’s face. Oooh, I can’t wait for Branwyn’s rejoinder. He always has something daft coming out his brains.

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  • TopDog

    I absolutely love Branwyn’s column and I can’t agree with him more.
    I’m not that much of a celebrity watcher, but I do know what most of them look like….or so I think.
    But then I see them after a while and they look completely different!!!
    Take Nicole Kidman for example….she looks totally different now, and OMI not even more attractive…..They’re all getting the same face…..

    Keep on showing people that celebrities are human too and they look like we do.And in most cases worse.
    Wouldn’t that be good for all the young girls who try soooooo hard to be like famous people….

  • Ourmanflint1

    Branwyn, you’re spot on and correct in your assessment. As we age, there are things that we all need to give up in the name of decorum, taste and dignity. A 50 year old man in shorts and a wife beater is just as out of place as Madonna’s pathetic efforts at staying cutting edge. Just isn’t happening, Hon. Look at Helen Mirren, I’d bet she’d be a good roll in the hay, yet she isn’t contrived or plasticine.My advice Madge: act accordingly. Ferchrissakes.

  • Michael

    After seeing Madonna onstage close up and seeing candid shots , this appears to be altered. And even if it is a real, unaltered shot,who cares? Even the most beautiful people (such as Madonna) take a bad photo here and there. Why is this making news? I think the author is a little sick. She has always taken care of herself and has lots of energy and vitality…if you have a problem with it, don’t watch her.

  • http://superamanda.blogspot.com/ SuperAmanda

    Brilliant writing and honest photos that actually rival her Swept Away set pics for sheer gruesomeness, Madonna is a hateful human being inside which is why she has aged so wretchedly on the outside. The media and many of her sheep like squalling fans defend, guard and lie about what she really is and what she looks like so thankfully bloggers such as yourself inject truth into the media cover up. It is appreciated. Cheers!

  • lauralee

    Wow! you constantly insult people for their bad grammar and punctuation but yet your replies are full of them…talk about being a moron

  • fred

    Who is this hump?

  • Gradiva

    So, to grow up gracefully means for some people…what? To don’t take care of our look? To deny any kind of sexual appetite? To copy the rest of the human being and be quiet and most of the time boring?
    There is a thought…ask any gracefully aged 50 years old woman, to put herself on the same set and take a picture without re-thouching it, and then let me know if a bit of efford taking care of ourself ( and yes, a bit of help from the plastic surgery department too ) is not worth it. It work for me! And definately for HER!!

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    Branwyn Lancourt, I am a Madonna fan and I absolutely love her – I grew up with her. I do see your point though, and I think you are extremely witty and funny as hell, even if I don’t entirely agree with you.

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    why dont u start another paragraph with “now i know”. a 5th grader can write better than u. a5th grader from banglafuckindesh

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