I’m being punished for turning 60: Madonna

Singer Madonna’s musical journey has been full of controversies. Be it her personal life or professional. However, the singer doesn’t believe in having any role models in the current times to look up to.

“There are no living role models for me. Because nobody does what I do. And that’s kind of scary. I can look back at women who I think were great and amazing — freedom fighters, like Simone de Beauvoir or Angela Davis — but they didn’t have kids. Being a single parent of six children, I continue to be creative and be an artist and be politically active, to have a voice, to do all the things that I do. So I mean, there isn't anybody in my position,” British Vogue quoted Madonna as saying.

The 60-year-old artist has been targeted by many for her choice of lifestyle, marriage and music. After 36 years in the music industry, she feels ageing is taking its toll on her.

“People have always been trying to silence me for one reason or another, whether it’s that I’m not pretty enough, I don’t sing well enough, I’m not talented enough, I’m not married enough, and now it’s that I’m not young enough. So they just keep trying to find a hook to hang their beef about me being alive on. Now I’m fighting ageism, now I’m being punished for turning 60,” she says.