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Madonna shares heartbreak that inspired her new look
May 19, 2025
Exactly one week after Madonna celebrated Mother's Day with five of her six children, her thoughts turned to her own late mother Madonna Louise Fortin Ciccone.
The 66-year-old Queen of Pop decided to cover up her signature platinum-blonde bob with a wavy brunette wig, writing: 'I missed my mother so I channeled her...'
Michigan-born Madge - who boasts 54.6M social media followers - gave her fans different angles of the obvious hairpiece, which was likely procured by her hairstylist Orlando Pita.
Since the seven-time Grammy winner was given the same name as the Michigan-born matriarch, her family nicknamed her 'Little Nonnie.'
Madonna was only five when her mom tragically died, age 30, in 1963 from breast cancer after welcoming six children.
'It was just the greatest event of my life. It was like a part of my heart was ripped out,' the Material Girl recalled in Sky documentary Becoming Madonna in January.
'I was forced to grow up fast and understand my mother's death, to understand the psychological, all things that were going on. It was too much for a child I think.
Last year, Madonna revealed she was kept in the dark about her mother's terminal illness.
'Nobody told me my mother was dying,' the self-made superstar wrote on Instagram.
'I just watched her disintegrate mysteriously, and then she disappeared, and there was no explanation except that she had gone to sleep, which explains my tumultuous relationship with sleep.'
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