The Material Girl covers next months British Elle and let’s just say that red dress is larger than life. We can all agree that Madonna is getting on up there in age but she seems to be keeping those old bones together thanks to Yoga and god knows what else [wink wink]. Normally she looks really SEVERE in the face but it seems the Photoshop really softened up her image a little. Here’s what the pop-star mom had to say about raising her pre-teen daughter, Lourdes.

My daughter is going through a phase of wearing jeans that are so tight she can’t bend her knees in them. I have a go at her and say, ‘Can’t you wear something else? You have a closet full of clothes and you wear the same pants every day. And please wear a belt because I don’t want to see your butt crack when you bend over.’

May Lourdes should get hold of some of mommas old risque photos. Exhibit A: