Madonna's long history of parenthood, both natural and via adoption, is very well known. She's one of the most famous women in the world, and everything she does makes headlines, even as she enters her 60s. The Queen of Pop has six children; four of whom she has adopted, and two she gave birth to.
The first was the product of her relationship with fitness trainer Carlos Leon; her daughter Lourdes was born in 1996, when Madonna was 38. A few years later, with that relationship over, she married British film director Guy Ritchie, with whom she had her son Rocco in 2000. By that point, 'Madge' was 42. She's known to have been fiercely protective of all her children, not wanting them to grow up in the intensely focused media glare that she's been subjected to for her entire adult life.