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Madonna reportedly treated for hernia

Spokeswoman says the star is now, ‘absolutely fine’

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Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP
Madonna with her award for best international female at the Brit Awards in London on Feb. 15. The star was reportedly recently treated for a hernia.
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updated 3:29 p.m. ET Feb. 16, 2006

LONDON - Madonna has been treated for a hernia but is now “absolutely fine,” her spokeswoman said Thursday.

The singer, who performed at the Grammy awards in New York last week, re-appeared in public on Thursday night when she accepted a Brit record industry statuette in London as best international female artist of the year.

“She had a minor procedure for a hernia and is absolutely fine now,” the spokeswoman said, declining to elaborate.

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Over 500,000 hernia repair operations were performed in the United States last year. A hernia develops when the outer layers of the abdominal wall weaken, bulge or actually rip.

The 47-year-old mother of two, widely regarded as one of the fittest stars in the pop business, is seen in a lycra leotard doing the splits at full stretch in the video for her latest single “Sorry.”

Last August, the singer sustained three cracked ribs, a broken collar bone and a broken hand when she fell off a horse while riding at her English country estate on her 47th birthday.

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