Madonna was her usual confrontational self on the Grammy Awards on Sunday night, saluting all of the “rebels” and “troublemakers” — but it surely was her own age-defying rise up that got essentially the most attention.
A source told The Post that the singer’s puffy face is a results of an obsession together with her cheeks, adding: “She doesn’t realize that it’s making her look a bit like a caricature of herself.”
Through the Grammys, social media was immediately ablaze with people saying they didn’t recognize the 64-year-old.
Piers Morgan caused fury among the many Material Girl’s fans when he posted a photograph of her on Twitter and dryly asked: “I assumed Halloween was in October?” And Pete Burns — the Nineteen Eighties “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” singer who spent a lot money on cosmetic surgery he went bankrupt — was trending on Twitter as people compared Madonna’s face to his.
A source near Madonna told The Post that a part of the issue is that singer doesn’t wish to look any different from her heyday — but in attempting to stop nature’s progress, she’s making herself almost unrecognizable.
“She desires to seem like ‘2000s Madonna’ and refers to herself within the third person,” said a source near the legendary singer. “She’s very aware that her face is one of the crucial recognizable on the planet so … she doesn’t wish to be a cartoon version of herself.
“But she also wants the upper cheekbones she was famous for — and the most effective approach to achieve those are with fillers.”
The source said that Madonna’s cheeks have turn out to be a little bit of a preoccupation for her.
“[She heard] that puffy cheeks hide the aging lines, and he or she’s turn out to be obsessive about the notion,” the source said. “So the cheeks can be puffy even when people on the skin think they make her look either odd or chubby.”
The singer also has a team on “skin watch,” the source added. “There may be a makeup artist and a facialist who’re readily available for a continuing cycle of creams and facials to maintain her skin
looking young.”
The Post has reached out to Madonna’s rep for comment.
Madonna has never addressed the rumors of cosmetic surgery, saying in 2012, “I’m actually not against cosmetic surgery. Nevertheless, I’m absolutely against having to debate it.”
But one celebrity plastic surgeon, Dr. Leslie Stevens of the Lasky Clinic in Beverly Hills, thinks she has had work done.
“Probably the most obvious thing is the rise in fullness in her cheeks and jawline, almost to a grotesque amount. This is probably going not surgically induced but moderately from fillers or possibly her own fat,” Dr. Stevens, who has not treated Madonna, told The Post. “I feel she has had her lateral brows elevated, and it looks like a lip lift was performed together with lip fillers.
“It is gloomy to see a natural beauty turn out to be so unnatural,” added Stevens, whose clients have included Sharon Osbourne. “This might be an ideal example of when a practitioner goes against their ethics and higher judgement to retain a star client.”
Friends say Madonna, who has long been known for her clean-living and healthy lifestyle, is prone to be heartbroken by all of the criticism of her appearance because, greater than anything, she desires to be attractive.
“She just desires to look good for her age,” said the source. “While she likes surrounding herself with young people because she likes feeding off their positivity and artistic energy, she is aware of her age. She’s had issues together with her leg and hip and her predominant focus is on being healthy and looking out good. She has a grueling tour coming up and he or she knows it can be taxing – she’s deliberately spaced it out so there can be time to recuperate between dates.”
Tickets for Madonna’s recently-announced “Celebration” biggest hits tour sold out in minutes for 35 dates.
“The tour is a celebration of her incredible profession and that’s what she is concentrating most on,” said the source.
