During the promotion of her film ‘W.E.’, Madonna shared her celebrity motherhood woes. She admits that Lourdes, 14, doesn’t fear her, no matter how strict of a mom she’s tried to be.

“She is always sneaking into my dressing room and borrowing things when I am still sleeping.  She doesn’t fear me at all…I have no authority!  If I say to my daughter, ‘That outfit is a little bit too risqué or revealing’ and she looks at me and says, ‘That’s rich coming from you’.  Sometimes, you have just have to say, ‘Because I said so!’”

The mom of four also says that despite her two divorces and several failed relationships, she’s still a romantic at heart:

“It’s not that I ever believed in perfect love.  But if you are a romantic like me, you want to be swept off your feet by a knight in shining armor. Unfortunately, we are raised on those fairytales, and even if we are sophisticated, educated, intellectually evolved human beings we still, in the back of our mind, think that Mr. Right is going to come along and we are going to live happily ever after.”

I always wondered if Madonna’s past would make for some interesting parenting conversations down the line.  How do you try to keep your kids from rebelling and testing certain waters when you were the queen of rebellion, experimentation and self-expression yourself?

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