Madonna Shares Rare Family Photo With 6 Kids on Thanksgiving

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

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

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.

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After the household of seven posed for his or her group portraits, all of them had the possibility to jot down down what they had 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 among her best achievements, even relocating her brood to Lisbon, Portugal, in 2017 as son David’s soccer passions grew.

“Any lady who’s a soccer mother may say it form of requires you to haven’t any life in a method, as a result of issues change from week to week and video games change from weekend to weekend — generally they’re within the metropolis, generally 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 you then 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 kids have discovered their very own paths — and he or she’s equally supportive.

“What’s superb 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 individuals makes adaptation simpler,” the Michigan native instructed the Italian journal. “They realized to talk Portuguese by means of doing all these issues with individuals, not by sitting in a classroom and studying in a didactic method, 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 identified for.’ I’ve thought so much 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 could actually really feel very overwhelming and might doubtlessly trigger a whole lot of insecurity. Clearly, you’re not going to look the identical your complete life. My mother may be very insistent on making me take into consideration what I wish to be identified for past my appears to be like. That’s not what I would like individuals to recollect me by. It’s not actual.”