While filming the music video for "Material Girl", Madonna met actor Sean Penn. They married on her birthday in 1985 and divorced four years later. Madonna predicted the divorce in an interview before they got married, noting that their shared traits, including fiery tempers, strong egos, and stubbornness, might not make for a lasting marriage.

"I have found marriages don't last if you share bathrooms," she told an interviewer. "The best thing about being single is there's no one to throw out of the bathroom when I want privacy."

Only when I'm dancing can I feel this free
At night I lock the doors, where no one else can see
I'm tired of dancing here all by myself
Tonight I want to dance with someone else
Get into the groove
Boy you've got to prove
Your love to me, yeah

Back in 1990, Madonna dated then-star rapper Vanilla Ice, but the relationship came to a halt when he became jealous after the publication of her sexually explicit coffee table book, Sex, for which he also posed.

Evita chronicles the life of Eva Perón, from her beginnings as an illegitimate child of a lower-class family to her rise to become First Lady and Spiritual Leader of the Nation of Argentina. Reviewers praised Madonna's performance, the music, costume designs and cinematography, while criticism was aimed at the pacing and direction.

A man can tell a thousand lies
I've learned my lesson well
Hope I live to tell
The secret I have learned, 'til then
It will burn inside of me

Madonna Louise Ciccone was born in Bay City, Michigan, on August 16, 1958. She would later comment about her name, "How could I be anything else but what I am having been named Madonna? I would either have ended up a nun or this."

The English Roses debuted atop The New York Times Children's Bestseller list and sold over a million copies worldwide. A moral tale, it tells the story of four friends who are jealous of a girl called Binah. However, they come to know that Binah's life is not easy and decide to include her in their group.

Sting and his wife, Trudie Styler, introduced Madonna to film director Guy Ritchie. On August 11, 2000, she gave birth to their son, Rocco Ritchie, and they were married at Skibo Castle in Scotland that December.

I learned
To let go
Of the illusion
That we can possess
I learned to let go
I travel in stillness
And I'll remember happiness
I'll remember, hmm