Madonna, So Like Us

Madonna may be fabulously rich and famous, but according to India Knight she's just like you! Madonna "got married, like you do." And, um, "she was doing what women do, especially in the first flush of a new relationship, which is to love everything about their boyfriend and adopt it as their own." And now she's divorced. Like you! "This is the story of many a modern divorce," Knight writes, lauding Madge’s feminist credentials. "What kills many marriages today is the erosion of roles that had been clearly demarcated for centuries." Okay, so this might not make Betty Friedan proud, but it's worth considering Knight's point that "unusually for a celebrity, Madonna's private life seems real, and thus provokes empathy rather than derision.”