Madonna’s eldest little one is a power to be reckoned with.

Lourdes Leon, 26, who goes by the nickname “Lola,” has constructed a profitable profession within the trend and leisure industries.

“I am envious as a result of she’s unbelievable at every thing she does – she’s an unbelievable dancer, she’s an ideal actress, she performs the piano superbly, she’s manner higher than me within the expertise division,” Madonna instructed British Vogue in 2019.

Lourdes — whom Madonna welcomed together with her then-boyfriend, actor Carlos Leon in 1996 — began dabbling in trend when she was an adolescent, beginning a clothes line together with her mother. The mother-daughter duo launched a juniors clothes assortment at Macy’s Herald Sq. in New York referred to as Materials Woman in August 2010. “I respect her style, and I hardly ever disagree together with her,” Madonna stated on the time.

Regardless of Lourdes – who’s one in all six kids – calling her mother a “management freak,” the pair share an in depth bond. The 2 can usually be seen attending occasions collectively, and Lourdes even paid homage to her mother on the 2023 Grammys by sporting a crimson crystal-covered costume with a cone bra prime, emblematic of Madonna’s corset from her Blond Ambition World Tour within the ‘90s.

So who’s Madonna’s daughter? Right here is every thing to learn about Lourdes Leon and her relationship together with her well-known mother.

She was born in Los Angeles

Madonna and her ex, Carlos Leon, welcomed their child lady, Lourdes Maria Ciccone Leon, on Oct. 14, 1996. The new child weighed 6 lbs., 9 oz. and was born at 4:01 p.m. at Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles.

Lourdes is a city in Southern France identified for therapeutic and miracles. Nonetheless, the “Vogue” singer selected her daughter’s moniker just because she beloved the identify.

She is a mannequin

Lourdes has been modeling on the catwalk for a number of years, making her runway debut for Gypsy Sport in 2018 at New York Trend Week.

She has since walked in exhibits for Rihanna, Luis De Javier, Versace and extra and has been featured in campaigns for Marc Jacobs, Stella McCartney and Swarovski. She even graced a bunch cowl of Vogue in 2021.

The multihyphenate additionally splashed into the beauty business in 2023, touchdown her first make-up marketing campaign as one of many new faces of Make Up For Ever’s HD Pores and skin Powder Basis.

“I take pleasure in being very hands-on with the campaigns I do, in order that I’m not simply modeling, per se,” she instructed Interview Journal in October 2021. “I dance, I’ve a really particular sense of fashion and I’m fascinated about aesthetics, so I like to include all these components of myself into my initiatives.”

Whereas her mother is supportive of her profession, Madonna suggested Lourdes to suppose long-term about her future.

“She’s very very like, ‘Proceed with warning and take into consideration what you need to be identified for,’ ” she added. “I’ve thought loads about that lately, as a result of as a ‘mannequin,’ you’re mainly relying in your seems to be. It could possibly really feel very overwhelming and may probably trigger loads of insecurity.”

Lourdes has been making headlines in current months for her steamy shoots, together with a Could 2023 W Journal function that noticed the 26-year-old posing on a pool desk in an almost nude lace catsuit. In August, she posed utterly within the buff in a Dion Lee advert marketing campaign, sporting just some strategically positioned purses common right into a bikini.

She finds her mother empowering

As Lourdes finds herself on the similar age Madonna was when she began releasing hits equivalent to “Like a Virgin,” the mannequin says she now appreciates the meaningfulness behind her mother’s discography.

“My expertise with my mother’s music has modified a lot as I’ve gotten older, as a result of I’m more and more in a position to acknowledge how influential and superb this lady is, and the way empowering to different ladies and forward of her time she has at all times been,” she instructed Interview Journal.

She continued, “I didn’t absolutely comprehend that till I spotted the significance of empowerment and what it means to be a girl. She’s in all probability the toughest employee I’ve ever seen.”

She has a budding music profession

Regardless of telling Interview Journal in 2021 that she didn’t have a powerful need to sing, she launched her first solo single “Lock&Key” and the accompanying music video in August 2022 below the identify Lolahol.

Madonna boasted about her daughter’s work, sharing a screenshot of the quilt paintings for Lourdes’ observe on her Instagram Tales with the caption, “I’m so pleased with you Lola!”

Whereas “Lock&Key” marks her first solo launch, Lourdes supplied backing vocals as an adolescent for Madonna’s 2012 observe “Celebrity,” which Madonna wrote about her.

Her mother tries to maintain her humble

Upon her highschool commencement, Lourdes labored to turn into financially unbiased and paid for an residence and her faculty tuition on the College of Michigan — the identical faculty her mother attended.

“We don’t get any handouts in my household,” she instructed Interview Journal. “Clearly, I grew up with excessive privilege. There’s no denying that. However I believe my mother noticed all these different youngsters of well-known folks, and she or he was like, ‘My youngsters aren’t going to be like this.’ ”

After faculty, whereas Lourdes was constructing her profession within the trend business, her mother gave her one piece of recommendation that basically resonated together with her.

“It’s not in regards to the cash or your face or how scorching you look. It’s about what you’re bringing into the world and what you’re going to go away behind,” Lourdes shared. “That at all times shakes me awake once I get too caught up in every thing.”

She is bilingual

When requested if her father — who speaks Spanish — taught her the language, Lourdes joked to Interview Journal that he was “lazy” and did not. Nonetheless, she does converse French.

“He didn’t really feel prefer it,” she stated. “He thought I used to be juggling loads with French, which I converse fluently. I’m actually attempting to be taught Spanish, and I attempt to converse it with my boyfriend and my different pals who’re fluent.”

She has tattoos honoring her household

Lourdes made a everlasting gesture to show her love for her household. She obtained “MOM” tattooed throughout her center proper knuckles in honor of Madonna and “DAD” throughout her center left ones to honor her father.

She additionally has her youthful sister Mercy’s identify tattooed on her internal left arm and her brother David’s identify etched beneath. Lourdes obtained her first tattoo when she was 19 years previous, and has a minimum of 11 identified tattoos.

Her first boyfriend was Timothée Chalamet

Lourdes revealed in an editorial unfold for Self-importance Honest in 2021 that her first boyfriend was Dune actor Timothée Chalamet. The couple attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia Excessive College of Music & Artwork and Performing Arts in New York Metropolis collectively.

“I respect him loads. We had been a little bit merchandise,” she shared.

In an interview with Andy Cohen at SiriusXM Studios in 2017, Chalamet and Cohen reminisced about assembly on the dance ground whereas Chalamet was relationship Lourdes.

“Properly I do not know in the event you bear in mind however Madonna was kinda with us dancing and my buddy Joey was there and Lola was there too and we had been all dancing collectively,” the Don’t Look Up star revealed. “I do not know, I normally do not discuss these things, however that was night time.”

When Cohen requested Chalamet how lengthy he dated Lourdes, the actor blushed and responded, “Subsequent query, I am outta right here.”