Cheek Mystique

 

This actually isn't a bad shot at all, this next in a long line of recent Madonna leaks. Though Madonna does  resemble someone you might have to rely on for a ride across the River Styx. Of note—that claw! And the final images used for Q Magazine were, of course, retouched and color corrected. One thing they changed was in the final images, Madonna's gi-normous cheek implant was softened. Notice how in the unretouched shot you see a huge indent between eye and cheek. If you stare at the image long enough and let your eyes relax, it's almost like one of those visual-trick games where you suddenly see a figure amidst an abstract field of geometric shapes. Except in this case, you eventually see the implant. You can almost make out the model number and copyright information. No, not really.

I don't think Madonna owes it to me or to her other fans to look perfect or young or natural, but she owes it to herself to try to look as good as she feels—she already had the gross cheeks way back in December of 2007, when this was snapped, and yet I feel like I didn't really notice her bizarre cheeks until way after the fact. And now they're all I can see!

Okay, unless something CRAZY leaks, I've got to get off this criticizing-photos-not-meant-to-be-seen tangent!

Comments

[John]

We'll be holding the Intervention for Matt in a few days...yes Matt...there is help getting beyond Madonnas changing face. Cue the Intervention music....

[jeannie]

yep dec 07 is when i first saw the cheeks and it bothered me too
but the girls got to do what a girls got to do

shes a work of art, a self made star
she is the boss of her own image

most times when u get something tweaked, they make mistakes, those cheeks were def. not the right move.

[David]

i dont know if anyone has asked yet but... how the fuck did all these photos suddenly leak??? i mean, its not just one shoot or even one photographer. it has to be from someone with access to ALL of madonna's recent (as far back, clearly, as 2002 at least) photo shoots...

i'm guessing someone from Guy O'seary's camp. Angela wasn't with her when the HARD CANDY stuff started, but Guy has been there since the early 90's.

odd...

now, about this round of photos. she looks like a man dessed as madonna. she is wearing SO MUCH EYE MAKE-UP. of course everything is airbrushed, and i'm totally fine with that, but wow...

[Bears Are Fat]

I remember you not noticing the cheeks Matthew and feeling shocked that you didn't. I clocked them instantly and felt they were just freaky. Suddenly she had these huge cheeks.

I can live with them. She's 50. Everyone gets work done. I think she looks basically fine. I'm less worried about the face then the sinewy or stringy arms, which won't go away, but I think she should cover them up when performing. I really hated the costumes for SAS.