Lourdes Leon, Madonna’s Daughter, Opens Up In New Interview

Lourdes Leon is perhaps best-known as the Queen of Pop Madonna’s oldest child. However, she’s also begun to break out on her own, doing modeling and attending the Met Gala. Leon just did a big interview for Interview Magazine, with her mother’s best friend, actress Debi Mazar. Read on to see 5 ways Lourdes Leon stays herself and the photos that prove they work—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bathing Suit Photos!

1. She Dances

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Leon and Mazar revealed that the former loves to dance, a lot like her mother, in their chat together. Mazar revealed that Leon studied dance in college, saying, “Ever since you were a child, you’ve been dancing your butt off. I love that you went to college for dance.” Leon said “I can hustle much better than I can salsa. Yeah, I can do a little something, something. I’m comfortable on the dance floor.”

2. She’s Spiritual

Leon says that she is working to connect more to her religion and her spirituality, as it is important to her. “I need to carve out more time to nourish my soul, because I am a woman of God for sure,” she says. “I love being in churches. I love being in synagogues. I love being in places of worship.”

3. She’s Independent

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Despite being the daughter of one of the most famous singers of all time, Leon says that she maintains an independent spirit, due to her upbringing. Leon even says that she paid for her college tuition. “We don’t get any handouts in my family. Obviously, I grew up with extreme privilege. There’s no denying that. But I think my mom saw all these other kids of famous people, and she was like, ‘My kids are not going to be like this.’ Also, I feel like if your parents pay for things, then it gives them leverage over you.”

4. She Values Her Privacy

Leon says that she values her privacy, and tries to stay out of the public eye for her mental health. “It’s kind of a nightmare, but I think it would have been worse if I hadn’t kept my life as private as possible. I’ve been judged from a young age, but I think that privacy is the reason why I was able to keep my wits about me and not find myself in a mental asylum. I want to figure out who ...I am before I let anyone else try to tell me who I am, you know?”

5. She Stays True To Herself

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Leon says that she tries to be as honest as she can, even on social media, and isn’t trying to let the industry change her. She says, “Instagram is not real. It’s the biggest lie of all time. People create personas on Instagram that are nothing like who they are in person, and it’s the scariest thing to me, because I’m the same everywhere.

Lorde is the latest Vogue covergirl! In the October issue of the fashion magazine, which hits newsstands September 21, the Solar Power singer flaunts her washboard abs in designer duds while revealings all the secrets to her emotional wellbeing in the interview. Read on for everything Lorde said about prioritizing mental health—and to get beach-ready yourself, don't miss these essential 30 Best-Ever Celebrity Bikini Photos!

1. She Isn’t Cut Out for Fame Because She Is “Highly Sensitive”

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“I’m great at my job, but I’m not sure I’m the man for the job,” Lorde told Vogue about fame. “I’m a highly sensitive person. I’m not built for pop star life. To have a public-facing existence is something I find really intense and is something I’m not good at. That natural charisma is not what I have. I have the brain in the jar.”

2. She Isn't a Slave to Fame

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In order to keep herself mentally sound, she allows herself to live a normal life to regroup when she needs it. “But for whatever reason people have allowed me to say, Okay, I’m going to come and do the thing—do the shoot, do the red carpet, speak to the journalists, put the music out—and when I’ve done it to the point of total exhaustion, when I have completely quenched that thirst, I’m going to go home, and you’re not going to see me for two or three or four years,” she said. “I’ll be doing the other thing, which is being there for every single birthday and dinner party and cooking every single meal and going on every single walk and taking every single bath. And when I’ve done that, and I’m like, all right, that’s enough of that for a little while, I’ll come back again.”

3. She Appreciates the Outdoors

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Lorde reveals that after spending the last few years in Auckland, she has come into herself and it has to do with spending time outdoors. “I was so serious and shy and tough. And I think that coming home, having a second record under the belt, I just felt like I could relax and play,” she says. “I don’t know—something started to happen, and it was all to do with spend­ing time outside.”

4. She Doesn’t Go Online

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Lorde explains why she stays offline. “I could sense that it would be very bad for the work and for me if I stayed online. I don’t think I’ve met too many people for whom social media is a net positive,” she says. “It’s producing crazy chemicals, forming crazy neural pathways that are not rooted in positivity. You don’t want to be the person shaking their finger, and I’m totally aware that it’s an immense privilege, a social privilege and kind of an economic privilege to be able to abstain. But I think we’ve got to be upfront about the things that are making us sick as a society.” In fact, she doesn’t even run her own accounts. “So I’m not, like, lurking on a Finsta. I’m really off,” she says. “I think I was known for having my finger on the pulse, so it was actually a huge decision philosophically for me to step back from that. But I started to see the phone as a portal. I can’t keep going through that portal, in the same way that I wouldn’t just take mushrooms all these moments of a day. It’s too deep a tunnel.”

5. Her Self-Confidence Has Never Been Better

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Lorde is in a great place mentally. “When I said I felt young for the first time—it meant feeling like I’m confident enough to put my butt out there. I wouldn’t have been able to do that as a teenager,” she explains. “When you’re really famous as a young person, feelings get magnified. At that time, people were discussing my body on Twitter, and the natural response was to shrink away from it. Now I have a sense of my worth and my power, and my body is—awesome, for one thing. But it’s also not as central as my brain is to the whole operation. I don’t think you could make me feel bad about myself now by saying something about my body, but that’s the difference between 16 and 24.”

Demi Lovato is teasing her new track in her swimsuit. In one of her latest social media posts, the singer shows off her beautiful body in a bathing suit, while revealing that one of her new songs is now out. “My track with @le_sserafim “Eve, Psyche & The Bluebeard’s wife” is out now,” she captioned the Instagram post. Demi has been very open about her mental and physical health struggles over the years. Here are a few of the ways she approaches health and wellness.

1. She Works Out for Her Mental and Physical Health

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While on the road, Demi has “a lot of people visit, which is really grounding for me,” she says. She also exercises, which is great for her body and mind, she says. “And I bring my trainer on the road. We work out and that centers mean mentally and physically. That helps a lot,” she told Vogue.

2. She Is Open About Her Eating Disorder Struggles

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“The very first time that I went to treatment was when I was 18,” Lovato told Today in an interview. “I went from my eating disorder, and I went for self-harm and emotional issues.” She added: “When you’re looking at images of people with perfect bodies, you start to look at yourself, and you start to pick yourself apart, and it’s hard to grow up in a world where that’s right in front of your face and at your fingertips at all times, she added. “I grew up in a period of time where young Hollywood was very, very, very thin, and that was the look, and I think that had a really negative impact on my eating just on my mental health, which I think fed into my eating disorder.”

3. She Uses Her Experiences to Help Others

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“I wanted to help others,” Demi explains about why she chooses to be open about her health issues. “I wish that I had somebody when I was 13 years old and having an eating disorder and starving myself. I wanted somebody in the public eye to say that ‘Hey, this is what I’ve gone through, and you don’t have to choose that route.’” She added: "I want them to know that talking to people and asking for help is more than okay and is absolutely what you should do," she said.

4. She Is Okay with Having “Bad Days

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Demi now has tools to handle hard times. “I don’t want to paint the facade that everything is totally perfect and fine. But I am in a really good place, and it has been kind of challenging to write a happy rock album,” she atold Today. “But I’m doing it! But I have bad days. I had a bad day on Sunday. I realized that even to this day, no matter how happy I might feel and seem. I’m human, and it’s okay to still struggle even when you’re in a great place.”

5. She Suffers From Hearing Impairment and Vision Loss From Her Heroin Overdose

In an interview with Andy Cohen for SiriusXM, Lovato shared that five years after the heroin overdose that almost left her dead, she is still suffering health-wish in the form of hearing loss and vision impairment. “I wouldn’t change my path because I don’t have any regrets. When I think about things, the closest thing that I get to a regret is when I overdosed … that overdose caused me a lot of … it actually caused a disability. I have vision impairment and hearing impairment to this day,” she said. “I don’t drive because I have blind spots in my vision. “It’s a daily constant reminder. You know, anytime I look at something, like, I have blind spots in my vision when I look at your face, and so it’s a constant reminder to stay on the right path because I never want that to happen again.”