Madonna’s outrageous public persona might make you think she’d be a lax parent. Well, think again. She definitely a different kind of mom, but she’s an authoritarian one. Lourdes Leon told Interview that Madonna’s super strict: doesn’t give money to her kids, totally bans TV, and locks all of her closets. “The list of things I wasn’t allowed to do is never-ending,” Lourdes said about her childhood.
One of the things that Madonna forbade her daughter from doing was changing her clothes daily. In a 2005 interview with Newsweek (via USA Today), Madonna shared that she took away the clothes her kids left dropped on the floor, and they had to work to retrieve them, especially Lourdes. “She has to earn all of her clothes back by being tidy, picking up things in her room, and making her bed in the morning. She wears the same outfit every day to school until she learns her lesson,” Madonna explained. It worked a treat for Steve Jobs and Simon Cowell — and they’d both left school years before.
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Lourdes is the spitting image of Madonna. She works as a model and loves dancing but insists that’s as far as she’s willing to go when following in her mom’s footsteps. “Honestly, actors really annoy me, and I can’t be around them,” she told Interview. “As for music, I can sing. I just don’t care about it. Maybe it’s too close to home.”
