This month’s Vanity Fair has been on news stands for a few weeks; I just got around to reading the “Madonnarama!” cover story - online <

< editors take note. In the four page story she talks about..

The paparazzi monster.. TMZ?

“I haven’t been to Los Angeles in quite a while, and I don’t watch television here or in England, and I was told there’s now a television show where the paparazzi are the stars of the show - is that true? That they film each other doing paparazzi jobs?.. They get this close, and don’t care how much they scare your children.. Being famous has changed a lot, there’s so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.”

Not giving a shit about critics

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haters

“You just have to keep doing your work, and hope and pray somebody’s dialing into your frequency. If your joy is derived from what society thinks of you, you’re always going to be disappointed.”

Of course there was the Why Africa? question..

“People always ask me why I chose Malawi. And I tell them, I didn’t. It chose me. I got a phone call from a woman named Victoria Keelan. She was born and raised in Malawi. She told me that there were over one million children orphaned by aids. She said there weren’t enough orphanages. And that the children were everywhere. Living on the streets. Sleeping under bridges. Hiding in abandoned buildings. Being abducted, kidnapped, raped. She said it was a state of emergency. She sounded exhausted and on the verge of tears. I asked her how I could help.

She said, You’re a person with resources. People pay attention to what you say and do.
I felt embarrassed. I told her I didn’t know where Malawi was. She told me to look it up on a map, and then she hung up on me.

I decided to investigate, and I ended up finding out much more than I bargained for, about Malawi, about myself, about humanity.”

Check the full story at Vanity Fair.

*For those that don’t know, that’s her adopted son, David Banda.*