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How many children does Madonna have?

Madonna has six children. Her first child, Lourdes Leon, was born in 1996; Madonna’s then-boyfriend, fitness trainer Carlos Leon, is Lourdes’s father. In 2002 Madonna had a son, Rocco Ritchie, with her husband, film director Guy Ritchie. The couple divorced in 2008, and that year Madonna adopted a boy from Malawi named David Banda (born in 2005). The singer subsequently adopted three more children from Malawi: Mercy James (born in 2006) and twins Stella and Estere (born in 2012).