Guy Ritchie is said to have agreed to say sayonara to his foreskin to please his then-wife Madonna. It has been claimed that the Lock Stock director- who attended the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge last Friday -was circumcised to adhere to the Material Girl’s Kabbalah beliefs.
Karen Berg, a spiritual adviser to Madonna, is reported to have said that Ritchie underwent the surgeon’s knife to please his then-wife, according to New York magazine.
Now this isn’t a debate about the pros and cons of circumcision. That’s a whole other post. But it is a post about what we’re willing to do for love. I’m thinking surgery beats the hardest thing I’ve done for love which is sit through the B-Grade horror flick “Psycho Killer Beast With a Million Eyes”. Total disappointment. For starters it only had two eyes. And the “beast” looked suspiciously like a dog wearing a wig. #fail
In Celebrity World, we’ve seen tattoos (Winona Forever, anyone?), nifty little vials of blood being worn (Angelina and Billy-Bob) and a blind eye turned to extramarital affairs (Jackie Kennedy). Even Nicole Kidman admitted she stopped wearing high heels when she was married to Tom Cruise.
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Clearly, 1970s band 10CC had no clue what they were talking about when they wrote their hit song ‘The Things We Do For Love’. Let’s revisit the first line of the chorus, shall we? (Feel free to sing along at home ….)
“Like walking in the rain and the snow when there’s nowhere to go …”
Hmmm. Dude, seriously. If walking through rain and the snow is the extent of what you’re prepared to do for love then you deserve to have your arse sent to Dumped Town.
Since when is walking through rain a sacrifice? Now having surgery on your pork sword, well that’s another matter. (Too much? Imagine I said “pecker” instead.)
So what you have done for love? Sat through endless cricket matches? Gone vegetarian? Moved overseas? Changed your wardrobe? What’s the greatest sacrifice you’ would – or already have -made? And do you have any regrets?
Or perhaps someone has made a sacrifice for you? Was it worth it?
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The things we do for love? Hmm... let me see. For my wife, I put up living in a regional area when I prefer city dwelling. In this region there are fewer job opportunities, lower income potential, pissweak entertainment, mediocre restaurants and no decent yum cha for 100km!!! I have turned down fantastic job offers in exciting cities, and she has pulled the rug out from under me so many times as she changes her mind so often. We cannot travel overseas (she won't get on a plane), I cannot own/ride a motorcycle (too dangerous), banned from playing my music aloud in the house (thank goodness for ipods!), cannot spend any time away from home and she has her cantankerous elderly mother in a granny flat in our back yard!
Having said that, she has to put up with me!! Funny enough, my point is that you do these things for the one you love. I reckon love is unconditional. I am happy to be with my wife and sacrifices are a true expression of love and devotion. My wife is my friend, lover and confidant. She is a wonderful mother to my son and nobody can fold washed undies like she can. OK, I will stop there before you lose the contents of your stomach! *barf*
The total irony (eat your heart out Guy) is that my wife is a foreskin fiend and likes the fact my joy department is au naturale. So at lease my mutton dagger still has the original sheath it came in (sorry, but Pork Sword has already been used).
All said and done - yes, it was worth it.
I did the Nicole Kidman thing. Stopped wearing high heels because then I would be taller than by then bf and he went all weird every time I did this so I stopped. Now that we're not together I am obsessed with buying heels to make up for all the years I didn't wear them.