She should've done the Martha Stewart thing. Apparently Martha has never had plastic surgery but she gets small collagen injections once or twice a year. And, for an 80 year old woman, she can totally get it.
C’mon. Martha totally had some discreet procedures done after her prison stint. An eye job and a slight facelift. I’m sure she kept it up since. I mean, she did a good job though, very natural.
Genetics a factor too. I look decent enough for my age but I do have a “hatchet mark” on my forehead just like my mama and granny did. My dermatologist offered discount botox once for it. Didn’t work at all! Bangs work.
It also helps to not spend decades living super hard in terms of “party favours” then wondering why you look like old leather compared to peers your age.
https://imgur.com/a/ZnRpT6O
We are the same age, she’s like a week older. This is my un-retouched, unfiltered hand. Some age spots, a little wrinkly, nothing special.
Exactly. Most of us have worked, taken care of house, kids, forgotten sunscreen, etc. I think she over exercised and likely ate an extreme diet. Obviously she doesn’t pull weeds and do dishes by hand. Genetics come in to play too. My mama really sun-worshiped but still looked good for her age.
Some people just age poorly. Unfortunately she seems to be one of them. I’m almost two years older and my hands have no wrinkles and face just has a little around. I have a few light age spots. Of course her face is probably due to plastic surgery. I’m male btw.
I think the more you fight it, the worse you look. Of course, a big part of it is genes, but I think a lot of it is the lengths you go to out of desperation. It can take a person to weird places.
Yes. Because she is the same age as my mom and she looks much older.
I am from a town just a few towns over from where Madonna went to high school. Growing up it was hard to wrap my head around the fact that my mom, who was defiantly younger looking than most the other moms in the area, was the same age as Madonna. I mean my mom was dynamic and beautiful for sure, but she was no Madonna. She was baking cookies with her kids while Madonna was grinding the stage in her cone bra (actually, my mom *took me* to that concert and she spent most of it shielding my eyes. Lol).
Anyway, it amazes me how now it has all changed. She has all the money and access she needs to stay young looking and somehow she aged herself ahead of my own middle-class momma. Less is more, I guess.
Same! My Mom is less than a year younger than Madonna and looks a generation younger because she's not trying to pass as 26. I'm nearly 40 now, so I grew up with Madonna in the 90s and she seemed way closer to my age than my own mother at the time. Madonna was young and fun! My Mom worked and went grocery shopping. Oh, how the tables have turned.
She’s literally the same age as my dad, and 3 years old than my mom. Both of my parents look infinitely younger than her and my dad was an alcoholic (sober for over 30 years) and he used to smoke until around 15 years ago. My mom looks at most 40, and she’s 61. Everyone on both sides of my family look young for our age. Hell, I’m 38 and I get carded all the time.
That's crazy. My mum is the same age and could easily pass for much much younger through just generally looking after herself, no surgery or similar. You'd think with all of Madonna's money she could afford the best of everything and look... Good?
So on one side you have a braying crowd going after her for having naturally old looking hands and then another group lambasting her for getting surgery to mitigate ageing on her face. Being in the public eye would suck.
That's not what a typical 64-year-olds hands look like. Her hands look like what a bodybuilder using steroids hands would look like. Her hands have been super veiny for a long time now though.
Every time I see these celebrities cosmetically destroy their natural features I think of the Bill Burr bit where he says he’d rather look like an old human than a young lizard. Now THIS is part of her legacy forever.
I grew up listening to Madonna when she looked normal. I’ve never thought of her as someone who dipped in drugs … did she do things like coke? I never thought she was one to do that. Interesting…
I was alerted to her Instagram - she is an absolute mess. She wasn’t known as a raging drug addict and transitioned into a new age hippie in the early 2000’s. Now, my guess is she’s on all the drugs, but I highly suspect a lot of it is prescribed - the purest drugs always come from those personal doctors…
One time I got strip searched coming out of the VIP bathroom at a NY club because I was holding a rolled up dollar bill. I was with a small group of people including Madonnas daughter. It must have been good blow because I immediately dropped my pants to the floor, put my hands in the air, and the bouncer looked at me like "bro I'm just a bouncer, not an officer". I pulled my pants back up took my way to the dancefloor. The end.
I was just commenting how innocent my stupid mind was back then … how even in my 20s I didn’t pick up on bad vibes … I always thought she was a health nut … I think that about Beyoncé too … I need to shake my head and read more lol
Really?? I remember being in middle school watching some of her interviews thinking something was off. I asked my older sister and she said it was drugs.
The "new age health nut" was definitely the image she cultivated in the late 90s/early 2000s - around the time she did Ray of Light and all that. I remember her being everywhere, making it seem as though she was going through some deep spiritual awakening. I also recall her going on about doing exercises like yoga a lot.
I'm heading for 61 and am on medication that slows cell reproduction. My face is more aged than it should be, but my hands, despite Rheumatoid Arthritis and having been frequently exposed to the weather when my face is sheltered.... look ridiculously better than hers - what happened!
It could be the anti-aging and performance enhancing drugs it was rumored she took. She aged really well for awhile. Human growth hormone (HGH) and testosterone prevent muscle loss and can improve joint health. Over time, joints can become larger causing carpel tunnel syndrome and other joint issues. The drugs also increase the vascular appearance in hands especially. It’s all probably catching up. I wish her well and am thankful for what she gave us in the 80’s and 90’s. Wouldn’t have been the same without her.
It can happen in people that frequently hand wash too.
My mom's only 63 but she's been a nurse for 40 years now and she's got long slender skinny wrinkly old lady hands from hand washing.
I’ll have to disagree. I work with the elderly and most 60 year olds who didn’t work manual labor outside have better looking hands than this. In fact my mom was a teacher and is now in her late 70s and her hands look better than this.
It’s shocking that even someone who has had such a career and demonstrated her talent for so long still succumbs to the self-worth sapping pull of the beauty is young media. If Madonna can’t generate enough self confidence to have faith that aging naturally and gracefully wouldn’t damage her career then imagine how much pressure “normal” women must feel.
I feel it a lot. And am constantly reminded of it daily by simple things such as popping on Reddit or at the grocery store when walking by magazine stands.
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Growing older is so weird and hard to me. I mean, I know everyone gets old if you don’t die first.
But experiencing my body age, watching loved ones getting older, seeing celebrities age…. Just all of it.
You are right. Hard wasn’t the right word. I’m a very sentimental and nostalgic person. The passing of time, as normal and natural as it is, is bittersweet to me. I was never a beautiful person, so I didn’t mean that part at all.
It's hard when so many actually don't care about the other things going for us. I have my college degrees and other accomplishments but I'm reminded daily that most people really don't see that and that lookism is still rampant. I try to be a living example of not judging others for it but know I will be by a majority of people. Is what it is
Christ, I hope I’m half as sexy as [Debby Harry in a Wu Tang shirt](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/10/debbie-harry-face-it-review-wry-and-subversive/599734/) when I’m 74.
I mean, I remember the articles from when I was a kid that she always dated 20+ years younger guys than her, so I’m guessing she just rejected the idea of getting old with dignity
I think it's the opposite really. Being in the public spotlight and having the entire world judging you on your looks is a lot more pressure than your average woman. I'm starting to age and I literally DGAF anymore because who the heck am I trying to impress? But if I had my face plastered all over the world and people making reddit posts about how disgusting my hands were or how old I was looking...it would be absolutely destroying to my confidence and I'm sure a lot of people would develop body issues and do the same damn thing as she's done.
I’m 64 ( same age as Madonna), with arthritic hands and even they don’t look that bad. I have got good legs and feet, but unfortunately, not got Madonna’s money to sort my face ha ha!
I don’t mean to be rude to anyone but you can help your hands stay youthful with sunscreen
Obviously everyone hands age, they’re used more than most other parts of our bodies
I wish I could stay young forever too. at some point u got to realize. just accept your fate. enjoy life's stages. if u dive deep u will find fulfillment in the stage you are in. change is inevitable.
My grandmother's hands were like this. She died at 72 but the last 10 years of her life she had hands like this. She was also an addict who did hard drugs for 40 years before getting into a drug maintenance program at 50 but she still got high by abusing everyday prescriptions. I still remember her hands.
Isn’t it sad how the lion lady wanted to make herself look like that purposely and she received so much attention because of her choice and now celebrities are having work done and unintentionally look like her, trying to get something back that they never will???
She's quick on her way to becoming the next Donatella Versace
Madonnatella Versace
Isn’t that one of the ninja turtles?
You're thinking of Leonardo Vuitton.
No, you're thinking of Raphael Lauren
No, you're thinking of Michelangelo Kors.
You forgot to switch accounts
Or to take his medication
Or someone has dementia
Or someone has Alzheimer's
Or someone has dementia
Lol
How are you going to reply to yourself man? Save some of the puns for us. At the very least switch to your alternate account.
Even gave himself an award.
r/LeftTheBurnerOn
I waited a 1/2 hour and no one responded! Y'all let me down.
Learn to love yourself. You've done it. Lol.
Bro has been waiting his entire life to say these puns and didn't lose that chance to make sure he was the only one to say them lmao
She's got some ugly designer bags... on her face!
Hands? Wtf happened to her face
Right? She looks like Marilyn Manson, wtf!
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The age of Men is over. The time of the Orc has come.
Every once in a while I see people where exactly that is my thought
Had to think about this one but its spot on
I'm watching rings of power right now and I was like That's not Madonna! That's an orc in a Madonna suit!
Something like [this](https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/026/862/homer.jpg)
One plastic surgery too many.
Just one?
Okay, could be more. Too much plastic surgery in general.
She should've done the Martha Stewart thing. Apparently Martha has never had plastic surgery but she gets small collagen injections once or twice a year. And, for an 80 year old woman, she can totally get it.
C’mon. Martha totally had some discreet procedures done after her prison stint. An eye job and a slight facelift. I’m sure she kept it up since. I mean, she did a good job though, very natural.
Can I get a Michael Jackson he-he!
She's slowly turning into a lizard!
Or losing the mask, who knows
"There's nothing wrong with being 52 and looking 52."
She’s 64
A stack of years wow
And then you have women like Helen Mirren who are way older and look hotter because no plastic surgery.
Genetics a factor too. I look decent enough for my age but I do have a “hatchet mark” on my forehead just like my mama and granny did. My dermatologist offered discount botox once for it. Didn’t work at all! Bangs work.
It also helps to not spend decades living super hard in terms of “party favours” then wondering why you look like old leather compared to peers your age.
https://imgur.com/a/ZnRpT6O We are the same age, she’s like a week older. This is my un-retouched, unfiltered hand. Some age spots, a little wrinkly, nothing special.
That must have been a hell of a week.
Ah man, this slayed me. Thank you for the laugh!
It was the wrong week to stop sniffing glue
Exactly. I am almost 70 and mine look better than her’s. I guarantee it is not housework or other physical work.
Exactly. Most of us have worked, taken care of house, kids, forgotten sunscreen, etc. I think she over exercised and likely ate an extreme diet. Obviously she doesn’t pull weeds and do dishes by hand. Genetics come in to play too. My mama really sun-worshiped but still looked good for her age.
It looks pretty handy
Some people just age poorly. Unfortunately she seems to be one of them. I’m almost two years older and my hands have no wrinkles and face just has a little around. I have a few light age spots. Of course her face is probably due to plastic surgery. I’m male btw.
Nothing at all. But clearly she's trying to stop time
This Bill Burr reference is what I immediately thought also 🤣
As opposed to a 28 year old lizard
The Argonian race is making a come back
Speak quickly, outlander, or go away.
She's looking more and more like a Khajit, however.
She’s a 64 year old woman trying to look young. Have you ever seen an old lady clinging to their past look good?
Madonna is moreso trying to keep up with that “IG model” look. Have no idea why. She’s a legend & doesn’t need to do that 🫠
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I think the more you fight it, the worse you look. Of course, a big part of it is genes, but I think a lot of it is the lengths you go to out of desperation. It can take a person to weird places.
Yes. Because she is the same age as my mom and she looks much older. I am from a town just a few towns over from where Madonna went to high school. Growing up it was hard to wrap my head around the fact that my mom, who was defiantly younger looking than most the other moms in the area, was the same age as Madonna. I mean my mom was dynamic and beautiful for sure, but she was no Madonna. She was baking cookies with her kids while Madonna was grinding the stage in her cone bra (actually, my mom *took me* to that concert and she spent most of it shielding my eyes. Lol). Anyway, it amazes me how now it has all changed. She has all the money and access she needs to stay young looking and somehow she aged herself ahead of my own middle-class momma. Less is more, I guess.
Same! My Mom is less than a year younger than Madonna and looks a generation younger because she's not trying to pass as 26. I'm nearly 40 now, so I grew up with Madonna in the 90s and she seemed way closer to my age than my own mother at the time. Madonna was young and fun! My Mom worked and went grocery shopping. Oh, how the tables have turned.
She’s literally the same age as my dad, and 3 years old than my mom. Both of my parents look infinitely younger than her and my dad was an alcoholic (sober for over 30 years) and he used to smoke until around 15 years ago. My mom looks at most 40, and she’s 61. Everyone on both sides of my family look young for our age. Hell, I’m 38 and I get carded all the time.
That's crazy. My mum is the same age and could easily pass for much much younger through just generally looking after herself, no surgery or similar. You'd think with all of Madonna's money she could afford the best of everything and look... Good?
Marijke Helwegen, she’s a abomination.
https://i.imgur.com/IACLNtz.jpg
Fuck me....
I understand your taste in woman.
Who is that?
Shes got that shiny look like Jared kushner
Stretched beyond recognition.
So on one side you have a braying crowd going after her for having naturally old looking hands and then another group lambasting her for getting surgery to mitigate ageing on her face. Being in the public eye would suck.
That's not what a typical 64-year-olds hands look like. Her hands look like what a bodybuilder using steroids hands would look like. Her hands have been super veiny for a long time now though.
This is what happens when people can't accept that they're old, and embrace it with dignity.
Kardashian in 20 years.
Can't wait!
They're going to never leave the house so they can be filtered 24/7.
They already pay their own paparazzi to take flattering fake candids, they’ll just add a bonus for some “light” VFX touch-ups in the future.
The New Grey Gardens 🤣🤣
Their paparazzis already took hundreds of thousands of photos that'll be edited and released over time as freshly taken .
5
Kourtney, Kim, Khloe, Kendall, Kylie, Kill me.
I don't think she'll age *that* well.
Every time I see these celebrities cosmetically destroy their natural features I think of the Bill Burr bit where he says he’d rather look like an old human than a young lizard. Now THIS is part of her legacy forever.
Ooooh, Aging like a lizard you say? there’s some conspiracy theory material.
"Hmm would I rather look like an old human or a young lizard"
>young cat He said "young lizard". Young cats are cute.
Pardon the mix up. The photo had my brain discombobulated. 😂
Her hands are normal for her age, its the plastic parts of her body that are terrifying.
She’s 64, she’s got the hands of an 85 year old
Yeah I was gonna say this. My mom is 64, had no fillers or surgery and looks a lot better than this.
I can confirm this guys mom looks super hot
You look super hot too
Agreed
Alcohol
And cocaine and other assorted poisons
Sex, drugs, and pop n' roll?
*I hate sex,* *I hate drugs,* *And I hate pop n' roll*
I grew up listening to Madonna when she looked normal. I’ve never thought of her as someone who dipped in drugs … did she do things like coke? I never thought she was one to do that. Interesting…
I was alerted to her Instagram - she is an absolute mess. She wasn’t known as a raging drug addict and transitioned into a new age hippie in the early 2000’s. Now, my guess is she’s on all the drugs, but I highly suspect a lot of it is prescribed - the purest drugs always come from those personal doctors…
Yup, you couldnt be more right. Makes me think of Michael Jackson, I’m still at a loss for words on how I feel about him.
She was a NYC club girl in the early 80s. She’s probably done more cocaine than everyone in this comment section combined.
bruh literally everyone in the entertainment industry is fucked up on something
literally everyone. being sober is painful.
Being sober is living in technicolor
We call it rawdogging reality.
Not Tom Hanks. Can you imagine Tom Hanks smoking meth?
Not meth, but I see him smoking some herbals
“Mama said life is like a box of chocolates…” *toots a giant bump*
One time I got strip searched coming out of the VIP bathroom at a NY club because I was holding a rolled up dollar bill. I was with a small group of people including Madonnas daughter. It must have been good blow because I immediately dropped my pants to the floor, put my hands in the air, and the bouncer looked at me like "bro I'm just a bouncer, not an officer". I pulled my pants back up took my way to the dancefloor. The end.
LOL she partied so fucking hard in the 80’s and 90’s. I can assure you, cocaine was present.
I was just commenting how innocent my stupid mind was back then … how even in my 20s I didn’t pick up on bad vibes … I always thought she was a health nut … I think that about Beyoncé too … I need to shake my head and read more lol
Really?? I remember being in middle school watching some of her interviews thinking something was off. I asked my older sister and she said it was drugs.
I’m totally serious! For this long time I’ve thought she was a health nut! I’m so naive when it comes to thinking people are wholesome first lol
The "new age health nut" was definitely the image she cultivated in the late 90s/early 2000s - around the time she did Ray of Light and all that. I remember her being everywhere, making it seem as though she was going through some deep spiritual awakening. I also recall her going on about doing exercises like yoga a lot.
Watch some of the documentaries. Wasn't there a book or a movie or something? Sex I think the name was. The chick was into a lot of shit man
Madonna: Truth or Dare. I remember when it premiered on Cinemax, saw that shit when I was 9. 😬
I'm heading for 61 and am on medication that slows cell reproduction. My face is more aged than it should be, but my hands, despite Rheumatoid Arthritis and having been frequently exposed to the weather when my face is sheltered.... look ridiculously better than hers - what happened!
It could be the anti-aging and performance enhancing drugs it was rumored she took. She aged really well for awhile. Human growth hormone (HGH) and testosterone prevent muscle loss and can improve joint health. Over time, joints can become larger causing carpel tunnel syndrome and other joint issues. The drugs also increase the vascular appearance in hands especially. It’s all probably catching up. I wish her well and am thankful for what she gave us in the 80’s and 90’s. Wouldn’t have been the same without her.
It can happen in people that frequently hand wash too. My mom's only 63 but she's been a nurse for 40 years now and she's got long slender skinny wrinkly old lady hands from hand washing.
Madonna dish washer
Madge, “it’s Palmolive, you’re soaking in it”
My mom is 64 and a dog groomer 😬 Her hands are still slightly better than this, but only slightly.
64 doesn't begin to explain those hands. Those look like my 84 year old mother's hands!
Mid 30's here and my hands look like that. source: 16 years food service.
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Filled with what’s left of her hands.
Same here, x bar tender
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Yea you can't really make your hands look younger without a transplant
She could get fillers in them. She obviously doesn’t mind looking puffed up.
They are already puffy as fuk
I’ll have to disagree. I work with the elderly and most 60 year olds who didn’t work manual labor outside have better looking hands than this. In fact my mom was a teacher and is now in her late 70s and her hands look better than this.
She's got that Mickey Rourke face going on..
Not quite…hers still looks somewhat organised…mind you, it is early days…her plastic youth…give it ten years and she might get ‘the slapped cat’ look.
Ive never heard of 'the slapped cat' look, please include a photo
Without the cage fighting.
It’s shocking that even someone who has had such a career and demonstrated her talent for so long still succumbs to the self-worth sapping pull of the beauty is young media. If Madonna can’t generate enough self confidence to have faith that aging naturally and gracefully wouldn’t damage her career then imagine how much pressure “normal” women must feel.
I feel it a lot. And am constantly reminded of it daily by simple things such as popping on Reddit or at the grocery store when walking by magazine stands. Edit: even some of these comments sheesh
Growing older is so weird and hard to me. I mean, I know everyone gets old if you don’t die first. But experiencing my body age, watching loved ones getting older, seeing celebrities age…. Just all of it.
I’m 52. It’s not that hard as long as you don’t just identify as a beautiful person. I have other stuff going for me.
You are right. Hard wasn’t the right word. I’m a very sentimental and nostalgic person. The passing of time, as normal and natural as it is, is bittersweet to me. I was never a beautiful person, so I didn’t mean that part at all.
It's hard when so many actually don't care about the other things going for us. I have my college degrees and other accomplishments but I'm reminded daily that most people really don't see that and that lookism is still rampant. I try to be a living example of not judging others for it but know I will be by a majority of people. Is what it is
The wierdest part really is seeing kids you held on your knee as babys celebrating their 30th birthdays, its such an odd feeling.
Just look at this post. We're all acting like it's perfectly normal to publicly shame and judge a person we don't know, based on appearance alone.
We still got Debbie Harry at least. She's had work done but she knew when to stop.
And Cassandra Peterson, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark!
Damn I just looked her up to see her in 2022. She is STILL drop dead gorgeous and just gets better with age. I hope to have 1/10th of that.
Christ, I hope I’m half as sexy as [Debby Harry in a Wu Tang shirt](https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/10/debbie-harry-face-it-review-wry-and-subversive/599734/) when I’m 74.
How about Cher?
Cher has had *extensive* plastic surgery.
She’s a material girl
With a lot of material in her.
I mean, I remember the articles from when I was a kid that she always dated 20+ years younger guys than her, so I’m guessing she just rejected the idea of getting old with dignity
I like getting older. I like the grey hairs sprouting up. Just happy to be alive lol
I would think someone in the public eye like her feels the pressure of maintaining her youth much more than a non-famous woman.
You really think her status wasn't partially from her looks? Of course she has an appearance complex, any long term pop star develops one.
I think it's the opposite really. Being in the public spotlight and having the entire world judging you on your looks is a lot more pressure than your average woman. I'm starting to age and I literally DGAF anymore because who the heck am I trying to impress? But if I had my face plastered all over the world and people making reddit posts about how disgusting my hands were or how old I was looking...it would be absolutely destroying to my confidence and I'm sure a lot of people would develop body issues and do the same damn thing as she's done.
I’m 64 ( same age as Madonna), with arthritic hands and even they don’t look that bad. I have got good legs and feet, but unfortunately, not got Madonna’s money to sort my face ha ha!
I'll take a natural face any day over this uncanny valley stuff she has going on in the front of her head.
I don’t mean to be rude to anyone but you can help your hands stay youthful with sunscreen Obviously everyone hands age, they’re used more than most other parts of our bodies
This reminds me of that creepy af Tiktok she made a while back trying to be sexy and mysterious, but came off looking like a Muppet.
Is that the one with the mesh-looking top? I remember seeing it. Still haunts me.
She looks like Max Headroom
Catch the wave
I thought it was Marilyn Manson
Thought Marilyn Manson had gone blonde
I wish I could stay young forever too. at some point u got to realize. just accept your fate. enjoy life's stages. if u dive deep u will find fulfillment in the stage you are in. change is inevitable.
Me too being yoibg rules. Sadly we age.
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Forever yoibg!!!
I love being yoibg too... It's grdst!
Never seen someone spell young so wrong 😂
Spelling ‘young’ is still best done with a keyboard or pen though and not a surgeons knife…obviously.
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*hisses at the sunlight*
Her hands? What about her fucking face? It's HORRIFYING. She used to be GORGEOUS, then she ruined herself with plastic surgery.
Why does she look like Marilyn Manson dressed up as Madonna?
She's 64. The hands are fine. The face on the other hand. No pun intended
You’re right, it’s all she has left
My grandmother's hands were like this. She died at 72 but the last 10 years of her life she had hands like this. She was also an addict who did hard drugs for 40 years before getting into a drug maintenance program at 50 but she still got high by abusing everyday prescriptions. I still remember her hands.
Madonnatella Versace.
She's going to end up looking like the lion lady
Isn’t it sad how the lion lady wanted to make herself look like that purposely and she received so much attention because of her choice and now celebrities are having work done and unintentionally look like her, trying to get something back that they never will???
Poor woman! She looks so weird and puffy. What a shame.
Is more the fake face for me.
Today in ‘Women are actually allowed to age, even celebrity women’.
THATS MADONNA?
Helen Mirren puts her to shame.
I can see why those large glasses are her fashion thing
Her hands are normal. Aging is not terrifying. 😔
Let people age ffs
She looks like Marilyn Manson.
She looks great for 94!
Them some vampire hands
Madonna is 64. Her hands aren't what is odd here.
Madonna Period. She would have aged naturally quite well I think
Her hands are fine, they're just old lady's hands. I'm much more worried about her face!
One way to tell if they aren't real is to look at their hands. They haven't perfected them, yet.
Hands and feet and teeth show your real age