Madonna reveals she once ripped her leotard 'from my vagina to my fanny' in ...

In an interview about her new album, Madame X, Madonna has revealed that the title of the record comes from her days in dance school as a teen.

And in doing so, the music megastar recounted a story about how she made herself stand out from the other girls in class, in order to get noticed by the head of the school, Martha Graham.

Talking to Jo Wiley for BBC Radio 2, the songstress, 60, recalled: 'There was no room for individuality and that bothered me enormously. So I started doing things that made me stick out…

'At one point I took my leotard and ripped it from the top all the way down to my pubic bone and then I took tiny little gold safety pins and safety pinned it all the way from my vagina to… my fanny? That's what you call it here in England.

'And so it looked like a zipper or a vertebrae – it was actually quite cool looking – and I would put holes and runs in my stockings and I got criticised for it. I got asked to leave and change - and this kept reoccurring - and my goal was to get into so much trouble that I would get to meet Martha Graham.'

Martha - who was in her 80s when Madonna, then-19, studied at her school on the Upper East Side in New York - was the unseen mistress of the school, who Madonna emulated.

It wasn't often that the students got to meet her, but Madonna's plan worked, inadvertently leading to the eventual name of her 14th studio album in the process.

'So, it worked because... that’s when I got the visit from Martha and she gave me a lecture about following rules and how I couldn't stay if I was not willing to follow the rules.

'And then she started to let her guard down a little bit. I could tell she admired my cheekiness and my subversive behaviour, because she was also the same, otherwise she wouldn't have changed the world of dance like she did.

'She said

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