In a recent interview with Ladies’ Home Journal, Madonna admitted that she regrets her sexy look of the past. The iconic singer and actress has certainly changed her tune since settling down with husband Guy Ritchie and their children. She has turned her attentions to the mystic religion Kabbalah and to writing children’s books and while doing so, has come to the realisation that showing off her body isn’t everything.

“Sometimes I was being overtly sexy for the sake of showing off when I didn’t need to be. I think I hurt myself. Ultimately none of us wants to be judged, or approved of, or loved because of the way we look, or how sexy we are,” she said in the interview.

“One minute I was saying ‘believe in yourself’ and the next minute I was saying ‘just be sexually provocative’. I was letting it pump up my ego, thinking ‘aren’t I great, they’re writing about me, my picture’s on the cover of every magazine, I’m so fabulous,” she added. Madonna has just released her fifth children’s book ‘Lotsa De Casha’.