“I’m not going to be defined by my age,” Madonna says in this fabulous interview, exclusive to ELLE. You have to agree with that. The diva of music defines the age– how can time limit her? So, 50 becomes a number and Hard Candy becomes the sweetest sound of today. The queen of reinvention is best defined by the word ‘zeitgeist’ – in every spirit of the times!

Which is why you are going to see this special cover on many of the 41 editions of ELLE across the world. And I can promise you that it will go on to become a collector’s item. The last time we got an exclusive with Madonna in March 2006, the issue created so much excitement that we got several emails – from as far as Bulgaria – asking us to send across a copy of the magazine. In fact, on eBay it was being sold at three times the cover price.

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