Madonna is mourning the loss of her stepmother, Joan Ciccone, who died of “very aggressive cancer” on September 24 at the age of 81. Joan married the singer’s father, Silvio ‘Toni’ Ciccone, in 1966 – only three years after Madonna’s mother, also named Madonna, died at the age of just 30.
“She will be greatly missed by her family and friends, whose lives she enriched with her enthusiasm, joy and love,” a condolence message posted online said.
Madonna reportedly did not have a very close relationship with her stepmother, at least not in the teenage years of her life, as Joan imposed strict household rules on the singer and her siblings in their already traditional Catholic upbringing. Were. In a 2002 interview, the Like a Virgin singer shared that her stepmother ran an extremely religious household where she was forbidden from using tampons and expected to follow other similar rules.
At the time, these impositions fueled Madonna’s teenage rebellion and contributed as a factor that estranged her from her family for a period of time. However, Madonna also admitted in an interview with Larry King that same year that she may have been unfair in her dealings with her stepmother in her youth because, when she looks back at the circumstances of her past, she can see that Joan Was trying.
The complex relationship that Madonna shared with Joan and with her father Tony made its way into her music as she sang about abandonment, betrayal, and the raw emotions she experienced as a child as a result of her father’s decision to Struggled as. Marries his domestic help in his 2003 song Mother and Father.
In 2015, Madonna told Rolling Stone that she did not have much of a relationship with Joan, so she lacked any role models to look up to in her life. It is unclear whether Joan and Madonna mended their relationship later in life.
In addition to Silvio and Madonna’s six children, Joan and Silvio have a daughter, Jennifer, 56, and a son, Mario, 55. The couple also welcomed a son named Joey in 1967, but he died shortly after birth due to a heart defect. ,
According to her obituary, Joan hails from Taylor, Michigan and worked as a dental assistant after graduating from Henry Ford Community College. She was also the patron of a daycare, which she ran for more than 30 years.
In 1995, he and Silvio, 93, moved to Suttons Bay to establish and operate Ciccone Vineyards and Winery. One of Joan’s greatest unfulfilled wishes is not to see her grandchildren get married and have children of their own.
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