Madonna, now retirement age, is having enjoyable with boyfriend, 29

Madonna turned 67 this month — formally sufficiently old to gather Social Security advantages — and has been residing la dolce vita on vacation in Italy together with her a lot youthful boyfriend and brood of youngsters. And associates say it has been a very long time since they’ve seen the star “glowing” with such happiness.

Maybe it’s the brand new magnificence therapies?

One insider advised The Post that 29-year-old Akeem Morris, whose romance with the perennial Material Girl went public final yr, has satisfied her that she doesn’t want all of the fillers and augmentations that made her face seem without delay tightly frozen and puffy at the 2023 Grammys, shocking viewers.

“She’s starting to listen to Akeem, who tells her she’s beautiful. She doesn’t normally listen to anyone but she does him,” the insider stated. “She now needs to personal being 67 moderately than making an attempt to look 27. And so she’s been doing issues like LED lights, oxygen facials, lymphatic drainage — issues that simply give your face a refresh.

‘Everyone is obsessed with what she’s carried out to her face, and so she’s determined to try to look a bit extra pure after that entire Grammys look a number of years in the past … Her face is so iconic that it must appear to be her — she needs it to look much less sculpted and she or he needs her face to maneuver.”

Page Six has reached out to Madonna’s spokesperson for remark.

The Queen of Pop introduced Nigerian-born Akeem Morris, a former soccer star whom she met on a photoshoot, to Tuscany for the birthday celebrations which additionally included her son Rocco Ritchie, 25, and daughters Lourdes Leon, 28, Mercy James, 19, and 12-year-old twins Stella and Estere. (Only son David Banda, 19, was not seen in pictures.)

Besides staying at a surprising Sixteenth-century villa owned by Sting, Madonna & Co. have been pictured watching the well-known Palio horse race in Siena, dancing up a storm and celebrating her large day with a pink cake within the form of a Labubu doll — sporting a model of her iconic cone-shaped bra and adorned with the message “Happy birthday Madudu.”

“She is glowing these days and a lot of that is down to Akeem,” the good friend added. “She dotes on him and plans trips, parties, even silly little dance videos. Akeem makes her laugh a lot and that’s why he is so important … he enjoys the attention.”

But the good friend additionally admitted that Morris could be Madonna’s Mr. Right Now moderately than an everlasting Mr. Right.

“She says she doesn’t need it to be a great love story. It’s about companionship and that’s what she needs more than anything else,” the good friend stated. “She’s described to me how she doesn’t want a toyboy — this isn’t a cougar fantasy — however she needs somebody to be together with her at midnight when she will’t sleep. And that’s Akeem.

“More than anything else, she realizes that it is fun and laughter that keep her young. And that is why Akeem is so important to her.”

After an especially harmful bacterial an infection landed Madonna within the ICU in 2023, resulting in her being put in a medically induced coma for 48 hours — and her brother Christopher Ciccone died of pancreatic most cancers final December — she’s taken solace not solely in her children but in addition her work.

In truth, the star is again within the recording studio for the primary time in six years.

She has been working in London on a sequel to her hit 2005 album “Confessions on a Dance Floor”; though the brand new report has a title — reportedly “Confessions 2” — there isn’t a launch date but.

“She is throwing herself into the studio again, and it’s healing for her. She keeps calling this album medicine,” the good friend stated. “She says the album is about ‘dancing through the pain’ and it has a story to it. The first ‘Confessions’ was about escape, but this one is about survival. She’s lived a lot since 2005, and this is therapy set to a beat.”

Madonna can also be stated to be a bit itchy after her remix album “Veronica Electronica” — a set of songs remixed from her legendary 1998 “Ray of Light” album and named for her alter ego from that period — created little fanfare upon its July launch.

‘She was a bit disappointed by sales of ‘Veronica Electronica’ — and places a few of it right down to ageism,” the good friend added. “For ‘Confessions 2’ she’s concentrating not on chart positions but on proving to herself she can reinvent. She is really buzzing about the music.”

Morris is usually within the background whereas she is within the studio, the good friend stated: “He might just nod and smile [about] her work but he is someone she can talk to about her enthusiasm. She just really likes having him around.”

She’s additionally nonetheless involved together with her legacy, despite the fact that the movie model of her life has had a rocky highway.

The newest is that the challenge will now be a limited series on Netflix — and she or he continues to be very hopeful that Emmy-winning actress Julia Garner will play her.

“She’s been keeping notes about her life for years and now she is ready to let people in,” the good friend stated. But she needs to retain management of it and a few of that’s tough to let go of.

“She says that [some creative executives involved] want the mess and not just the magic, so there is a bit of to and fro about what stays in.”

Garner reportedly beat out different actresses together with Florence Pugh and Sydney Sweeney, present process a brilliant intense “boot camp,” to play Madonna in a beforehand deliberate movie earlier than it was axed final yr.

The actress confirmed in July that the most recent model of the challenge is “supposed to still happen.”

“Julia isn’t confirmed, but that’s who Madonna wants,” the good friend stated. “She sees Julia as having the same fire and steel that she’s always had.”