SHOCK AND ROLL MOTHER
Madge & Lourdes different - & alike
No one puts the sex into sexagenarian like Madonna.
A few weeks ago, the 63-yearold pop icon Photoshopped herself — legs spread and bosom bulging in a fetish-style corset and leather gloves — into an image of her bikini-clad daughter, Lourdes Leon, 25, from a magazine shoot.
Madonna then shared it with her 17.2 million Instagram followers — some of whom called the move “desperate” and the singer herself “trash.”
But, sources told The Post, the display was meant as a sweet expression of maternal pride.
Lourdes is reportedly uneasy on social media and the photo maneuver, it seems, was Mom’s way of encouraging her.
Lourdes follows no one on Instagram and can’t be tagged on her public feed. Mostly silent, she will sometimes respond to those who post things like,“Your Mom is a legend” by snarking, “Follow her then. It’s @Madonna.”
“Lourdes has an enormous sense of self — she is spiky and tough,” a Madonna source told The Post. “Her attitude is defiant, all day, every day.”
She may bridle at her famous mother’s influence, but Lourdes is also very much Madonna’s daughter — determined to make her own mark, boundaries be damned. When Madge was 25, she released her debut album and captivated audiences. Now Lourdes is ready to do the same.
Two of a kind
And there is one thing she has in common with her mom: “She loves to shock and provoke,” according to the Madonna source — as when she took part in a simulated orgy at a fashion event at Art Basel last year. In September, she walked the runway for both Versace and Fenty, in very revealing outfits.
“Ultimately, she wants to break boundaries like her mom did,” said an insider.
Lourdes lives in Bushwick with her boyfriend, Jonathan Puglia, whom she’s been seeing now for five years. He’s reportedly a hipster who is keen on skateboarding and street style. (Her first boyfriend, from her days at La Guardia HS, was actor Timothée Chalamet.) Lourdes is said to be surprisingly domestic and likes to cook for Puglia.
The two are also, reportedly, big weed connoisseurs. Their friends are a crowd of creatives — songwriters, hairstylists and dancers like Lourdes. “She has taken herself seriously as an artist for some years,” an insider said of Lourdes.
“She loves dance and spends most of her time taking dance and art classes. She is all about self-expression and she doesn’t believe in traditional ideas or being stifled.”
She is close to her father, fitness trainer Carlos Leon. He and Madonna dated in 1994 after he caught her eye while they were both jogging in Central Park and the singer enlisted him as her trainer.
By the end of 1995, the relationship ended so badly that Madonna changed the locks at her New York apartment. But she then got pregnant after the couple had an “on the road” liaison the next year.
“She is far more like her mom than her dad,” the Madonna source said of Lourdes.
“She wants to be famous like her mom but really rankles at any accusation that she lacks talent or is trading on her coattails.
“The truth is, she is living in an enormous shadow as Madonna’s daughter — but she is still in denial that that even exists.”