{"id":101477,"date":"2024-12-03T13:51:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T06:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/?p=101477"},"modified":"2024-12-03T13:51:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T06:51:15","slug":"madonna-shares-rare-photo-with-father-all-6-children-with-heartbreaking-story-about-her-brothers-funeral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/madonna-shares-rare-photo-with-father-all-6-children-with-heartbreaking-story-about-her-brothers-funeral\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna shares rare photo with father, all 6 children with heartbreaking story about her brother\u2019s funeral"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Madonna shares rare photo with father, all 6 children with heartbreaking story about her brother\u2019s funeral\n</h2><p>Madonna has never been more grateful to have family.\n</p><p>The \u201cMaterial Girl\u201d singer, 66, shared an Instagram post Monday with rare photos of her six children \u2014 Lourdes Leon, 28, Rocco Ritchie, 24, David Banda, 19, Mercy James, 18, and twins Stella and Estere, 12 \u2014 and her dad, Silvio Anthony \u201cTony\u201d Ciccone, from their Thanksgiving celebration last week.\n</p><p>Madonna with her six kids and her father on Thanksgiving.\n</p><p>Madonna, her kids and her father posed outside and inside of what appeared to be a farmhouse, where they seemingly spent the holiday.\n</p><p>The Grammy winner also took a sweet photo with her boyfriend, Jamaican soccer player Akeem Morris, 28.\n</p><p>\u201cWe are born into families and we create our own,\u201d Madonna began her caption. \u201cAs time goes by I am more and more appreciative of these microcosms of life that Dance around me and teach me lessons every day.\u201d\n</p><p><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' wp-image-101485 size-full src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/thefinejournal.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/12%5C/899.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"819\"' height='\"1024\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/899.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>The music legend then brought up her stepmom, Joan Ciccone, and her brother, Christopher Ciccone, who both died earlier this year.\n</p><p>\u201cMy family has experienced many losses this year,\u201d she wrote. \u201cMy father has endured with dignity.\u201d\n</p><p>\u201cWatching him cry in the cemetery when we buried my brother Christopher -right after he lost his wife. Was a moment I will never forget,\u201d she continued.\n</p><p>Madonna added, \u201cSpending time with him and all my children on Thanksgiving was Medicine for the Soul.\u201d\n</p><p>Joan passed away in September at age 81 following a brief battle with an aggressive form of cancer. She married Madonna\u2019s father in 1966 when the singer was 8 years old.\n</p><p>Less than two weeks after Joan\u2019s passing, Christopher died of cancer at age 63.\n</p><p><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' wp-image-101486 size-full src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/thefinejournal.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/12%5C/899n.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1024\"' height='\"689\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/899n.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Christopher was the art director on Madonna\u2019s Blond Ambition World Tour in 1990 and was the tour director for the Girlie Show in 1993. The siblings had a falling out, which Christopher wrote about in his 2008 NYT best-selling book.\n</p><p>Christopher claimed that Madonna outed him in her 1991 interview with the Advocate. He also accused Madonna\u2019s ex-husband and Rocco\u2019s father, Guy Ritchie, of being homophobic.\n</p><p>Despite the drama, Madonna gave a meaningful tribute to her brother following his death in October.\n</p><p><img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"alignnone' wp-image-101487 size-full src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/thefinejournal.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/12%5C/899m.png%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"820\"' height='\"1024\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/899m.png' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>\u201cMy brother Christopher is gone,\u201d Madonna said in a statement at the time. \u201cHe was the closest human to me for so long. It\u2019s hard to explain our bond. But it grew out of an understanding that we were different and society was going to give us a hard time for not following the status quo.\u201d\n</p><p>\u201cI did my best to keep him alive as long as possible. He was in so much pain towards the end,\u201d she added. \u201cOnce again, we held hands we closed our eyes and we danced. Together.\u201d\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Madonna shares rare photo with father, all 6 children with heartbreaking story about her brother\u2019s funeral Madonna has never been more grateful to have family. The \u201cMaterial Girl\u201d singer, 66, shared an Instagram post Monday with rare photos of her six children \u2014 Lourdes Leon, 28, Rocco Ritchie, 24, David Banda, 19, Mercy James, 18,\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":101485,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[670],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-101477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/899.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101489,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101477\/revisions\/101489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p>