Madonna Shares Uncommon Household Photograph With 6 Children on Thanksgiving

Mama mode! Madonna spent Thanksgiving within the firm of her six youngsters.

“What I’m grateful for…………. 💛,” the “Materials Woman” songstress, 64, captioned a Friday, November 25, Instagram carousel of vacation images. In a single snap, Madonna posed for a uncommon household portrait with all her youngsters.

Madonna wore a black costume, matching heels and fingerless gloves as she smiled beside Lourdes Leon, 26, Rocco, 22, David, 17, Mercy, 16, and twins Stella and Estere, 10, in a household pic. The “Vogue” musician welcomed Lourdes with ex Carlos Leon in 1996 and Rocco with ex-husband Man Ritchie in 2000. Madonna later adopted David, Mercy, Stella and Estere.

After the household of seven posed for his or her group portraits, all of them had the possibility to write down down what they have been most grateful for earlier than digging into their festive meal. After dinner, Lourdes helped sisters Stella and Estere DJ the group’s night dance get together.

The Grammy Award winner cites motherhood as one in every of her biggest achievements, even relocating her brood to Lisbon, Portugal, in 2017 as son David’s soccer passions grew.

“Any girl who’s a soccer mother may say it sort of requires you to don’t have any life in a approach, as a result of issues change from week to week and video games change from weekend to weekend — typically they’re within the metropolis, typically they’re not, and we’d by no means know till Thursday night time whether or not they’re on Saturday or Sunday, if at 12 or later,” Madonna opened as much as Vogue Italia in July 2018 of the transfer. “It’s inconceivable to make plans, and then you definitely really feel such as you’re not being honest to your different children, or being honest to me!”

Whereas David pursues his athletic pursuits, the Swept Away actress’ different youngsters have discovered their very own paths — and he or she’s equally supportive.

“What’s wonderful is how resilient they’re and the way they embraced all issues, particularly music, dance, soccer and sports activities — issues that join them to different folks makes adaptation simpler,” the Michigan native advised the Italian journal. “They realized to talk Portuguese by means of doing all these issues with folks, not by sitting in a classroom and studying in a didactic approach, like writing on a chalkboard. As a substitute, it’s enjoyable, it’s interactive.”

As her children every mark their mark of their chosen industries, Madonna’s taught them useful classes about success.

“She’s very very like, ‘Proceed with warning and take into consideration what you wish to be recognized for.’ I’ve thought quite a bit about that lately as a result of as a ‘mannequin,’ you’re principally relying in your look,” Lourdes mentioned of her mother throughout an October 2021 Interview profile. “It might probably really feel very overwhelming and might probably trigger a number of insecurity. Clearly, you’re not going to look the identical your entire life. My mother may be very insistent on making me take into consideration what I wish to be recognized for past my seems. That’s not what I would like folks to recollect me by. It’s not actual.”