Expanding her gym business, Madonna has opened a branch in Russia.
The diva opened her first Hard Candy gym in Mexico City, Mexico last year (2010) and now she has taken the business worldwide by opening another in Moscow.
The gym is located close to Red Square and features a swimming pool and exercise classes all designed by the singer herself.
Madonna also has plans to open another branch in St. Petersburg in the spring (2012), she also hopes to take the franchise to Canada in 2012.
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Madonna is the recent star to speak out against bullying, claiming she is “incredibly disturbed and saddened” by the latest wave of suicides among depressed youngsters, because she was as well isolated as a teenager.
Unhappy gay students made the deadlines across the United States in recent weeks after a number of them allegedly committed suicide after being mocked from their peers.
Madonna also admits that the traffic deaths broke her heart, as it was her gay friends who in the end made her feel accepted.
Participating via satellite to The Ellen DeGeneres Show, the pop star says, “I’m incredibly disturbed and saddened by the overwhelming number of teen suicides that have been reported lately because of bullying. Suicide in general is disturbing. Teenagers committing suicide is extremely disturbing but to hear that teenagers are taking their lives because they are being bullied in schools and dormitories… is kind of unfathomable…
“The gay community has been incredibly supportive of me… I can totally relate to the idea of feeling isolated and alienated. I was incredibly lonely as a child, as a teenager. I have to say I never felt like I fit in in school. I wasn’t a jock. I wasn’t an intellectual. There was no group that I felt a part of. I just felt like a weirdo… It wasn’t until my ballet teacher, who was also gay, took me under his wing and introduced me to a community of artists of other unique individuals who told me it was good and OK to be different and brought me to my first gay disco and ironically made me feel I was part of the world and it was OK to be different.”
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