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Old 10-29-2008, 08:21 PM
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Madonna - Hot or Not?

Ok, Madonna is single again. So men & gay women. Is Madonna hot? As in, right now? Not pre-yogatastic-manhand Madonna.

Personally, I think she's quite hot - I think her body looks fantastic in the Hung Up video - see here: http://www.theinspirationroom.com/da...gym-mirror.jpg but I heard a number of people say it was nasty.

So - what say you? Would you hit it? Lets pretend for a minute that it wasn't Madonna but some other 50 year old woman who looked like that? What is she was 30 - her body is better than most of the 30 year olds out there (except for her hands).

What do you think?
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Old 10-29-2008, 08:35 PM
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She is hot. Smoking even.

Let me look one more time . . .

Yep, damn hot. Some guys like the pre-pubescent boy thing as their standard of feminine beauty. I will never understand that.
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Old 10-29-2008, 08:44 PM
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IMO, not.

Although she was sorta hot in the Ray of Light video.
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Old 10-29-2008, 08:47 PM
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I'm in my early 40's, and was a horny young guy when she had her first hit, but I don't think I ever found her hot. I think personality plays a big role in how you perceive someone. Just as people I've known who were objectively average-looking raised their perceived 'hotness' by being nice, fun people, Madonna's physical attractiveness was adversely affected by what I felt was an off-putting personality - at least as much as I could tell thru seeing her in the media.

As a young'un, I'd have thrown her some if she lost her mind and decided she HAD to have me, but I suspect the best thing about the experience would have been having a story to tell.

Not hot.
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Old 10-29-2008, 08:51 PM
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Madonna's physical attractiveness was adversely affected by what I felt was an off-putting personality - at least as much as I could tell thru seeing her in the media.
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Ok, so it's not Manonna anymore. It's a woman her age who's quite a bit less...strident. Nice, plesant, fun.

Now is she hot? Or hotter?
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:07 PM
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I'm a little older than Madonna, so I've seen her career arc from the very beginning.

I've never found her to be hot. She always struck me as that girl from 8th grade who figured out if she talked dirty, boys would pay attention to her. She may ACT hot, but that didn't mean she IS hot.

True, she's well-preserved for someone her age (much better preserved than I am) but that just magnifies that the whole is much less than the sum of her parts.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:08 PM
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She looks good. Darn good for 50.

Not hot, but that's probably largely due to the rather dated and (for as much as scanty clothing can be) frumpy look of the dancewear, and the poor lighting of the video. If you put her into something a bit more modern and generous, and had her doing a pole dance, I'm sure there'd be plenty Doper men (and gay women) with their tongue on the floor.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:13 PM
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Not. Never has been, never will be. I wouldn't fuck her with your dick.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:19 PM
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Not hot, but that's probably largely due to the rather dated and (for as much as scanty clothing can be) frumpy look of the dancewear, and the poor lighting of the video.
Humm - I'm surprised you noticed the ugly dance wear with her booty hanging out like that.

Ok, how about this pic instead: http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/200...a/madonna1.jpg

Better lighting, no weird leotard. This woman is walking towards you on the street giving you the eye.

Are you interested?

And remember - this is for people who want to have sex with her. Not people who are evaluating her from a social comparison standpoint please.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:20 PM
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Ok, so it's not Manonna anymore. It's a woman her age who's quite a bit less...strident. Nice, plesant, fun.

Now is she hot? Or hotter?
Maybe not hot, but hotter. IIRC, she's been overdoing it on the exercise the past few years and was all wrinkles & bones the last I saw, but being less strident and more pleasant would only help. She might be hot for a fifty-year-old. She's not someone I keep track of, so I don't know her current appearance. The picture you linked to seemed fine. She looks to be in better shape than most ppl I see on a daily basis, but 300 pixel high full-body pic isn't really the greatest way to know. Maybe another pic would show her to be too thin or haggard.

She's in shape, but HOT is more than looks & curves.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:32 PM
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Not hot. There's something unappealing to me about her face and while there are certain women in her age bracket that I'll go for, she isn't one of them. Too stringy, too veiny. She might be in good shape for her age, but I've never been one to choose dates based off of how well somebody does in the gym.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:34 PM
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OK, edit took too long. New opinion based on second picture linked to:

If I were to base my opinion on looks only, and I were to disregard the knowledge that heavy makeup and photoshop techniques were used, I'd say hot. She looks good in that pic, for any age.

I still think she needs a personality transplant, but I'm putting that aside for the purpose of your survey.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:37 PM
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Too stringy, too veiny.
Oh yeah, she's super veiny. She has total man hands - I guess in many ads her hands are photoshopped out and replaced with either model hands or her own hands are smoothed and retouched.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:42 PM
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I will say, though, that she has fantastic arms. I'd love to have a girlfriend with arms like that.
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Old 10-29-2008, 09:51 PM
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There's a saying that once you reach a certain age you have to choose between your ass and your face. She definitely chose her ass, because her face looks like the Crypt Keeper.

So not hot.
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Old 10-29-2008, 10:11 PM
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I wouldn't fuck her with your dick.
You leave my dick out of this!
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Old 10-29-2008, 10:13 PM
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I've actually wanted to find Maddie attractive, but excepting that period of time right around the True Blue album... nah. Not sure why. She's good looking enough, has a decent body... but I never found her particularly sexy. I remember people getting het up about the Sex book she did, getting a look at it, and thinking, "So?"

Nowadays I can find fault with the veiny hands, etc. But that picture in front of the mirror? Not bad!
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Old 10-29-2008, 10:27 PM
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She has the stringy look of older women who work out too much in the mistaken belief they can compete with twenty-something women with respect to hotness. So another vote for not hot.
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Old 10-29-2008, 10:52 PM
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Her body's okay for what it is, but her face prevents me from being able to find her hot.

But the real problem is her obvious, life-defining desperation to be popular. She must have the lowest self-esteem of any human who has ever lived.
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Old 10-29-2008, 11:02 PM
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She looks like a divorced executive secretary who spends all her money on clothes and makeup to recover her once good looks. Does nothing for me.
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Old 10-29-2008, 11:05 PM
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IMO, Madonna was at her hottest as a brunette in the "Like a Prayer" video. She has a great body for 50, but a butter face.
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Old 10-29-2008, 11:07 PM
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I'd take a look as she approached, but then when she got close enough...not so much.
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Old 10-29-2008, 11:09 PM
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I've always thought she was good-looking, but never hot. I'd have sex with her if the opportunity arose, but she's not someone I'd ever fantasize about. That's been the case all the way back to the '80s when I was a horny 14-year-old who'd fantasize over moderate breezes. Her personality is a major turn-off, but even without that she does little for me.

Honestly, in the OP's photo, the first thing I thought of was the Cat Lady from A Clockwork Orange. Sort of like that friend of your mother's who seemed a little creepy because she was always trying to fit in with the younger crowd.
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Old 10-29-2008, 11:29 PM
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Not. Never has been, never will be. I wouldn't fuck her with your dick.
Oh, I'd fuck her with your dick, but only nailed to the end of a ten foot pole.

Getting away from silenus' genitalia, I don't find her at all hot, and in general I'd have to agree with kunilou's assessment of her; just kind of pathetic and somewhat nasty, and almost completely lacking in any talent except relentless self-promotion. She's the sort of woman you'd go out on a date with and be bored to death because she'd only talk about herself.

Belinda Carlisle, on the other hand...

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I'd take a look as she approached, but then when she got close enough...not so much.
That looks like Virginia Madsen after the Joker is through with her.

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Old 10-30-2008, 12:08 AM
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Not. Never was.
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Old 10-30-2008, 12:34 AM
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I'm another one who's never found her hot. The only time I thought she even apprached attractiveness was in the Material Girl video (channeling Marilyn Monroe).

And I agree with others who say she has an off-putting personality. She strikes me as exceedingly willful and self-absorbed. I've always felt that she probably doesn't have one genuine friend in the whole world.
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Old 10-30-2008, 01:12 AM
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I think she used to be pretty hot, but lately she looks like she's been used up. Too much working out and not enough moisturizer, IMHO. That's saying a lot, because I love to work out!

The pic of her posted earlier where she looks pretty looked photoshopped all to hell.

Whaddup Popeye?
Just no.
Not terrible, but not that impressive either.
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Old 10-30-2008, 01:12 AM
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Ok, Madonna is single again. So men & gay women. Is Madonna hot? As in, right now? Not pre-yogatastic-manhand Madonna.

Personally, I think she's quite hot - I think her body looks fantastic in the Hung Up video - see here: http://www.theinspirationroom.com/da...gym-mirror.jpg but I heard a number of people say it was nasty.

So - what say you? Would you hit it? Lets pretend for a minute that it wasn't Madonna but some other 50 year old woman who looked like that? What is she was 30 - her body is better than most of the 30 year olds out there (except for her hands).

What do you think?
That picture is not what would sway my vote in a hot-or-not election. YMMV.
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Old 10-30-2008, 01:14 AM
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Humm - I'm surprised you noticed the ugly dance wear with her booty hanging out like that.

Ok, how about this pic instead: http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/200...a/madonna1.jpg

Better lighting, no weird leotard. This woman is walking towards you on the street giving you the eye.

Are you interested?

And remember - this is for people who want to have sex with her. Not people who are evaluating her from a social comparison standpoint please.
Doesn't do a thing for me.
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Old 10-30-2008, 01:53 AM
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And I agree with others who say she has an off-putting personality. She strikes me as exceedingly willful and self-absorbed.
That and the fact she never was very interesting musically. Like Stranger on a Train said in his post, her real talent is relentless self-promotion and in that area, she's a genius. It's been 25 years since she burst on the scene and we're still talking about her (this thread being proof).

Appearance-wise, I thought she looked cute when she was younger (and I agree that she looked better as a brunette). Now, not so much. However, in either instance, she not worth the trouble for the reasons stated.
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Old 10-30-2008, 02:01 AM
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Sorry, that last paragraph should read:

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Appearance-wise, I thought she looked cute when she was younger (and I agree that she looked better as a brunette). Now, not so much. However, in either instance, she's not worth the trouble for the reasons stated.
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Old 10-30-2008, 02:36 AM
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http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/200...PS_800x844.jpg
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Old 10-30-2008, 03:27 AM
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Humm - I'm surprised you noticed the ugly dance wear with her booty hanging out like that.

Ok, how about this pic instead: http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/200...a/madonna1.jpg

Better lighting, no weird leotard. This woman is walking towards you on the street giving you the eye.

Are you interested?
No. From her face you can still tell that she's at least 45. I'm 29 so...no. If I was 50 I'd probably be like, "Mmm, mama!" Except that she's not really my look. I'm not big on blondes and strong cheekbones.
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Old 10-30-2008, 03:56 AM
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never have seen the attraction
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Old 10-30-2008, 03:57 AM
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Madonna hot? NOT!
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Old 10-30-2008, 04:32 AM
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Humm - I'm surprised you noticed the ugly dance wear with her booty hanging out like that.

Ok, how about this pic instead: http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/200...a/madonna1.jpg

Better lighting, no weird leotard. This woman is walking towards you on the street giving you the eye.

Are you interested?

And remember - this is for people who want to have sex with her. Not people who are evaluating her from a social comparison standpoint please.
Ok, in this pic she is totally hot! (in the other one, not so much)

Which completely freaks me out, since she is just a few years younger than my mom.
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Old 10-30-2008, 07:29 AM
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In her Like A Virgin days, she was a little fleshier and really working the 'lap dance attitude', with the come hither looks and doing all of the time-honored 'look at me, I'm sexy' moves. But I never actually found her sexy.

In her Sex Book days, she was a butterface. I recall one picture of her where her body looked better than I had ever seen it; she was sort of hanging by her hands from a pole or something over a body of water, and I thought her body was kickin'. But her hair was over her face, so I could live out the fantasy. Her face has always seemed very hard and masculine to me, and therefore a turnoff.

These days, things haven't improved. She's just too sinewy, plus she still has that face which time has not treated gently.

Not to mention her attitude and personality, which is a big fat zero. Also, she fucked Sandra Bernhard, which is like playing with toxic waste.

So no, not hot and with rare exception, never was.
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Old 10-30-2008, 07:33 AM
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For me she is like Paris Hilton,sometimes she looks really good,sometimes really bad.
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Old 10-30-2008, 08:39 AM
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My god, that picture of her arm is just horrifying.

I've never really "gotten" Madonna, but I'm a straight female a few years older than her, so I have never been her target audience.
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Old 10-30-2008, 09:11 AM
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I'll go with not.
Problem is she really doesn't have any type of "girlish" features. She's thin but doesn't have a figure. Muscular but not sculpted. And I know tanning is bad for you and "out" right now but pale just doesn't do it for me.
She 's just not very feminine.
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Old 10-30-2008, 09:34 AM
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Hmm....I'll have to say formerly hot, but only because of the unflattering plastic surgery. Had she reconciled herself to the inevitability of wrinkles but kept up her workout routine as she has, she'd be on her way to Helen Mirren level GILFitude.
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Old 10-30-2008, 09:43 AM
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Nice body, but I'm a personality sort, so I'd look, but not bang.
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Old 10-30-2008, 09:49 AM
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I think that she's well hot in real life but looks silly when she tries to act like a teenager in vids etc.
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Old 10-30-2008, 11:37 AM
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I'm a big fan of the more feminine curves and look that Madonna cultivated back in the 80's and 90's. I thought she was smoking. This 80's style unitard or fahion sense that she has cultivated over the past 8 years whatever it is that she wears, I not only find unnatractive, it actively turns me off. Also, the extremely lean and ropy look that she's cultivated in the past 10 years or so is not attractive to me, I think she could stand to gain 10 pounds in the right places. I also think the botox and plastic surgery make her look grossly disfigured and weird.
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Old 10-30-2008, 11:39 AM
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Of course, the thing is with Madonna, if you don't like her fashion sense ... wait five minutes.
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Old 10-30-2008, 11:49 AM
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God help me, but I do love that kind of talk.
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Old 10-30-2008, 11:56 AM
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Also, the extremely lean and ropy look that she's cultivated in the past 10 years or so is not attractive to me, I think she could stand to gain 10 pounds in the right places.
I think her current appearance is a pretty good way to illustrate that 0% body fat is not a good look for people. From what I've read, she's utterly obsessive regarding her workout routine and what foods she eats. Wasn't she doing that raw food-only diet for a while, in fact? And she comes out looking like that.

The woman would look better if she ate a double cheeseburger once in a while. It's weird; she's not aging gracefully but it isn't that she looks older than she should. She's actively fighting her age tooth and nail and boy, does it show. For all her dieting and exercise, Madonna doesn't look as good as Helen Mirren, thirteen years her senior.
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Old 10-30-2008, 11:58 AM
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On the binary scale, she gets a 1.
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Old 10-30-2008, 12:08 PM
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I think I remeber exactly the last video when I found her most physicallly attractive.

...Wearing the PVC bikini with the braidup in Human Nature. I'm not a big fan of the S&M theme but she looks beautiful in that leather/pvc bikini.

...and then again, I do think she looked pretty good in Ray of Light, as someone mentioned above. I think it was because she was more natural looking.
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Old 10-30-2008, 12:38 PM
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I...and then again, I do think she looked pretty good in Ray of Light, as someone mentioned above. I think it was because she was more natural looking.
I think it was because she was braless in a wife beater.
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