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They grow up so fast!
Celebrating her oldest son Rocco Ritchie’s18th birthdayon Saturday,Madonnawas overflowing with love as she shared some sweet tributes to her “beloved” child on social media.
“I am to My Beloved……” the legendary singer, whose 60th birthday is on Aug. 16, wrote alongside one throwback photo, in which her son flashed the camera a big smile while appearing to crawl around on his mother’s back.
“As my Beloved is to Me……..” Madonna added in aseparate postthat showed the pair gazing at the camera together when Rocco was a bit older.
The mother of six shares Rocco with her ex-husbandGuy Ritchie.
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Madonna also posted anartistic renditionof her son, which was entirely made up of photos of the singer herself.
“Into Your Eyes………My Face Remains,” she captioned the image, adding a heart emoji.
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In July, Madonna opened up about how her life has changed since she and her youngest kidsmoved to Lisbonlast year in order to foster sonDavid Banda‘s budding soccer abilities.
While Madonna’s 21-year-old adult daughterLourdes Leon(with ex Carlos Leon) and Rocco don’t currently live with their mom, the Grammy winner toldVogue Italiaher younger kids — David andMercy James, both 12, and 5-year-old twinsEstere and Stella— have all settled into life in Portugal.
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She also shared that while all of her children are interested in the arts, she won’t be pushing them to follow in their footsteps.
“Because of my work and traveling around the world, the things that I do and the places I find myself in, my children are very open-minded about everything, and I’m very proud of that. A lot of people say to me, ‘You must really want your son to be a successful soccer player, your oldest daughter [Lourdes] to be a dancer, Rocco to be a painter.’ And I always say no, what I want my children to be is loving, compassionate, responsible human beings,” Madonna said.
She added: “I just want them to be good human beings that treat other human beings with dignity and respect, regardless of skin color, religion, gender. This is the most important thing, you know what I mean? If they happen to be the next Picasso orCristiano Ronaldo, then great, that’s just the cherry on the cake.”
source: people.com
