Madonna, she catch a break these days. Unless you count the one she took on her arse this weekend in the Hamptons. Don’t worry, our favorite pentagenarian isn’t too injured from her fall off a horse, but her ego might be a little bruised.

Madonna, who took up horseback riding a few years ago after moving across the pond to England, has had horsey troubles before. Back in 2005 the singer broke several ribs after a bad fall, and that experience may have even been the beginning of the end of her marriage to Guy Ritchie. The couple’s divorce finalized in early January of this year.

Madonna’s long-time publicist Liz Rosenberg claims Madonna’s horse was startled by a photographer whom she claims jumped out of the bushes and this caused her fall, but according to the alleged pap and the Southampton Police, this was not the case. More from the NY Daily News:

The 50-year-old pop star was asked how she was doing after a night recuperating at pal Gwyneth Paltrow’s estate.

“Better,” she replied.

Madonna’s camp claims her prior encounter with a photographer didn’t go quite so nicely.

Spokeswoman Liz Rosenberg claimed her superstar client was thrown when a photog jumped out of a patch of bushes and startled her horse, sending her flying.

But freelance photographer Thomas Hinton claims he played no role in Madonna’s mishap - a position supported by the Southampton Village Police Department.

Hinton told The News he shot some frames of Madonna riding her horse about 3:50 p.m. Saturday, but took off soon after because he didn’t have a good vantage point.

Hinton returned more than 40 minutes later when he got tipped off that Madonna had had an accident, he says.

“I arrived more than 10 minutes after she fell, and I was shooting from the street,” Hinton said. “I don’t know what [Rosenberg] is talking about.

Horse falls happen to the best of riders, so I don’t see why Madonna would bother to lie about it, then again, her ego is the size of Long Island, so there’s that to take into consideration.

What is NOT the size of Long Island is the time and effort Madonna is willing to put into parenting her children, at least according to her former chef and house manager Eric Lenco. According to the former employee, Madonna’s a great mom, when she’s around, which he says is hard for her to squeeze in between yoga, pilates, and her career.

Eric Lenco, who worked for Madonna as her cook and housekeeper, has given his thoughts on Madonna’s current appeals to adopt a fourth child.

He said: “When she’s with the children, she is a devoted mum. She just doesn’t spend much time with them. It’s a puzzle why she wants to adopt again. She’s hardly ever with her children. She’s got two full-time nannies and one part-time nanny. So why adopt a kid when somebody else is raising them?”

“She gets up and has a coffee, then she does two hours of yoga,” he says. “Then there’s two hours of pilates and exercise. That’s six days a week. After that she deals with her email, her calls and the rest of her business. And after that, she spends maybe half an hour with the kids. Madonna puts herself before the kids. When she adopted little David, he arrived at her home from Africa, and three hours later, she left to do pilates. Wouldn’t you think she’d want to spend the entire day with her new son?”

The ex-cook also says her previous adoption led to the end of her marriage. “Madonna thought [David] would bring them together, but Guy was dead against adopting, so, for the marriage, it was the final nail in the coffin.”

This should be a shock to no one, most especially for Madonna herself. She long ago blamed her failed marriage to first hubby Sean Penn on her inability to devote time and attention to a relationship, and practically brags about how self-involved she is. Why on earth would someone that selfish want to bring another child into their life? Especially a child who would desperately need some serious one-on-one attention for any kind of proper bonding to occur.

Riches and luxury are great, but they are no replacement for love, nurturing and parental attention. Workaholics and attention whores like Madonna and Angelina Jolie should really think twice before sucking innocent children into their crazy, ego-centric world.

Source: D