Madonna’s chef talks…and talks.
The National Enquirer has interviewed Madonna’s former chef and house manager Eric Lenco who says that when Madonna is with her children, she’s a lovely devoted mother. The problem is, she’s just not with them that often, and he’s baffled why she’d want to adopt another youngster.
“It’s a puzzle why she wants to adopt again. She’s hardly ever with her children. She’s got two full-time nannies and one part-time nanny. So why adopt a kid when somebody else is raising them? She gets up and has a coffee, then she does two hours of yoga. Then there’s two hours of pilates and exercise. That’s six days a week. After that she deals with her email, her calls and the rest of her business. And after that, she spends maybe half an hour with the kids. Madonna puts herself before the kids. When she adopted little David, he arrived at her home from Africa, and three hours later, she left to do pilates. Wouldn’t you think she’d want to spend the entire day with her new son?”
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April 17th, 2009 at 1:56 pm
Well this is plain sad.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Is this surprising, like in the least, like even the tiniest little bit???
April 20th, 2009 at 8:13 am
No. Surprise. Whatsoever.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:25 am
i am not surprised at all. madonna has always been selfish its never been a secret. thats why they put a stop to her adoption. she is very see through. i bet when lourdes gets 18 madonna will be jealous of her
April 20th, 2009 at 8:31 am
Ya gotta love the chef for speaking out – and just saying what doesn’t sound like anything we couldn’t imagine her doing.
Naturally, she has to spend hours working out each day to have her body look like that and to perform as she does. And naturally, she has the demands of her life as an entertainer and what other businesses she is involved in to take up much of her time in the day. No one expects her to be a stay-at-home mom. However, I would have at least half-expected her to stay and spend the entire day at home when her son David arrived. (and wasn’t that over a weekend?)
April 20th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Actual, regular working parents are gone for 9 + hrs. a day; Madonna is a working parent. I almost never saw my dad when I was little, even on weekends; litigation attorneys work non-stop. The time I did spend with my dad was even more special. Besides, you see pics of Madonna with her kids every week, for kaballah and whatever else. There is nothing abnormal here.
April 20th, 2009 at 8:59 am
David was brought there to keep the all the other family members’s entertained.. off her back and out of her free time.. ew.. like a puppy?
April 20th, 2009 at 9:26 am
Huh. Excuse me? This man worked for Madonna for 8 months in 2000 before she even gave birth to Rocco.
Anyway, Madonna is no different from your typical working parent. NEXT!
April 20th, 2009 at 10:02 am
I would never compare Madonna to a regular working parent because most people HAVE to work to support their families. Madonna has made hundreds of millions of dollars. She never has to work again unless she wants to. She chooses to work for her own fulfillment.
April 20th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
Not surprised at all. Madonna only does things for herself. She wants to adopted to make herself look like a saint.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:03 pm
Who will write the first \"Mommy Dearest\" book?
I put my bet on Lourdes!
April 20th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
What a shock–Madonna Gristle Queen–is a bad mother. Duh! She has the morals of a $2.00 street slut.
April 20th, 2009 at 4:49 pm
I’m surprised by all the people on here saying it’s okay. What kind of crazy society do we live in where it’s perfectly acceptable for a woman to spend 30 minutes a day with her kids?
By the way it isn’t.
If you didn’t have time for kids, you shouldn’t have them. Working parent or not, make the time. My single mum was a working parent, but she spent more than 30 minutes with us. Madonna doesn’t even need to work, that’s the sad part.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
NEXT! I laugh at you.
July 26th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
The only reason she works is so that she can continue to receive immense amounts of attention from the public. She is desperate for attention and unable to properly nurture her children, all which stems from the fact that her own mother died when she (Madonna) was 5 (an important developmental age for children. She never experienced bonding with a maternal figure and, therefore, doesn’t know how to be one.