I think there's also an extent to which a celebrity both sets the "rules" and is much more subject to them than the average person. Like. Celebrities known in part or in whole for their looks (incl. Madonna) become that way because they fit a specific mold. Obviously she has rather more to offer than her face! But her face is also part of her brand, and culturally we are wildly unkind to people women who wear their experience on their bodies. I'm reminded of all the times I've stood in a supermarket line and seen a tabloid crowing about [some celebrity] who is [failing some measure of the beauty standard], complete with zoomed-in photos that have probably been retouched to make them look worse.

I mean. No one is ever going to spend as much time poring over photos of me as Madonna gets in one hour. I can't blame her for wanting to do what she can to reduce some of the commentary. Or maybe she just fuckin' felt like it. Shockingly, she's allowed to do what she wants with her own body. Funny how that idea--that a DFAB person owns the body in which that person lives, and modifies it according to personal taste--is just as radical in this context as, say, reproduction.