
Madonna is reportedly preparing to adopt yet another Malawian child, this time a 13-month-old named Mercy.
The singer is reported to have been given permission to take the little girl as a sister to David Banda, who she adopted from the country last year.
Madonna met 10 girls at the Kondanani Orphan Care Centre at Blantyre last October before deciding and, according to sources, "had her heart set" on another girl, Grace, until the child's extended family objected.
Officials are scheduled to meet with Madonna to assess whether her adoption will be made permanent
Now the star has been told she can adopt Mercy instead, and will file papers next February before taking her home two months later.
African officials went on to note that Grace is, in one way, very lucky: She is much too young to be able to remember the day her family relegated her to life in an orphanage in one of the world's least developed countries. Thanks, Aunt Jealous!
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Madonna? Grace? Mercy? Does she plan to move the family in to the Vatican?
i don't know how i feel about this. on one hand she'd be taking a child out of terrible living conditions and giving it a better life. on the other hand, i never see her with the boy she already adopted so it makes me feel like she's just collecting babies so people will pay attention to her. fuck it, just give her the little girl and let the nannies raise her…she'd still have a better life than she could ever hope for where she lives now.
So the extended family objects to the kid having a chance at a less than shitty life, but they are not up to the task of taking the kid out of the orphanage and raising the child themselves? WTF!? If they are so upset, why don't they take her?
I think it's unfair since she seems to be rapidly deteriorating. She's going to be like 100 when this kid is school aged.
You know, everyone says how amazingly well she's holding up, but I'm sort of going to go ahead and disagree on that. Yeeeaahhh……
Her body is amazing, there's no question on that (but you would too if you did power yoga for 3 hours a day and only consumed seaweed and kabbalah water), but her face…well, it's definately looking like she's creeping up on 50.
Actually I do yoga about 2-3 hours a day and pilates another 1 or 2. But only becuase it's my job. But I draw the line at seaweed and kabbalah water. I'm strictly Tom-Ba juice.
Her body is still awesome it's just the hands and face really creep me out.
You do? Oh my God, your in insane shape! I tried to do that power yoga once, but I was sore for 3 days after that. Another time I was in a really hot room doing that and I just couldn't take it. The instructor reeked of curry. Yuck.
Why is it that when I read "Tom-ba Juice" I get a picture of a Red-Bull can in my head?…That and Capri-Sun.
By the way, I'd love to learn Pilates, but there's no place around here that does it. I hear it gives you crazy stomach muscles.
I don't think her body is amazing. I think it's overmuscled and overlean.
Better than her face, though.
It's taken me years to be able to do it that long. That sounds dirty, I like it. We only heat the room to 85 which is warm but not like 105 crazy hot.
Seriously, you can pass out but they don't do much for you. I saw someone pass out and the teacher just handed them water but they couldn't leave.
I almost passed out from trying not to laugh. Dude just passed out in your class and you just give him water and leave him there. That guy deserved it for being a puss. That was very unyoga of me to want to laugh. It was more at the teacher though.
My first class ever I went with a friend and this woman set up right in between us. Apparently that was "her spot". Dear sweet baby jesus, she smelled like rotten fruit and was doing this primal scream thing in her downdog. We just kept looking at each other like, WTF??????
I also think you've come up with our new product. Tom-Ba juice packs. You can have a cut but it has to go right back into the company.
i think she looks pretty good, she is 50 (or 49).
po HOLY CRAP JUJU - share some of you workout motivation, will ya?
Whenever I think of Bikram yoga, I always picture the SNL skit with Tom Hanks as a schweaty skeevy yoga guy…
I'd still love to try it though, just too expensive for me right now :-(
BALE!
I've read some people will look at themselves naked in a mirror but that makes me cry. I just think you have to find something you love doing.
Plus I get paid to do it so that is a pretty good motivator. And if I don't show up I don't have a job anymore. They're so picky at my job.
LOL BeA, I always think of that skit with Tobey McGuire where Will Ferrell is finally able to blow himself.
That's the other benefit of teaching, you get to take classes for free.
"Holy crap juju" is right. That's hot - I'd go gay for you.
It's probably offensive to say "go gay" but isn't it more offensive that you're out there getting toned and I've moved to elastic waistbands?
I don't think Madonna looks over-muscled, but I tend to like a woman who looks like she can somebody's ass. I do, however, notice that women with a very low percentage of body fat tend to have more wrinkles. They get that hollow Skeletor face!
You make me laugh so I'd go gay for you too. I had some pre, during, and, post pregnancy. I think they only sell them at Walmart and the cruiswear section as punishment.
Why is it called cruisewear? People are clearly wearing these craptastic clothes off the boat as well.
Awesome. I'll call you at 3 a.m. and casually ask what you're up to and if you want to come over just to hang out.
Are for cruisewear, I seriously thought it meant - when you're just hanging around the house, cruising around…kitchen…bedroom…back yard… just cruisin. But umm I think yours makes more sense.
I never thought of it like that. Or just cruising the halls of the home for the still breathing men. I think anyone not on a respirator would work.
Does anyone else imagine it's like a big orgy in one of those places. Like once the visitors leave and everyone had their pills?
Sorry kids, Juju inspired me to trek my fat ass to the gym. I've totally let myself go. I used to go to the gym 5 or 6 days a week for an hour at least. I haven't gone to the gym in weeks and I have totally felt the effects.
That being said, Tom-ba juice packs could market well in Florida. That's the Scientology hub ya know…We could call it Thetan Water.
Maybe it's because you're just cruising the desert isle at Krogers. Or maybe it's because you're in cruise mode when you should be in shake-your-jiggle-around-the-track mode.
Wit wooo to blah. The first few minutes suck but once you get that adrenaline high it kicks ass. I almost want to go running now. Almost.
I used to run 10K's, but all the air oversees just killed me. Now, I have a hard time breathing even after a mile. Kuwait's a shithole you know.
…although I feel weird running on a treadmill. It's like I'm a hampster or something.
We pause as Sar cancels her upcoming luxury vacation to Kuwait.
There is something to make a mental note of. Of course isn't Michael Jackson moving there? Who would want to miss the chance to be Blankets neighbor?