Madonna makes unfiltered appearance with actress Julia Garner in NYC

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now-shelved biopic — among others to celebrate photographer Steven Klein’s birthday at Journey in the Flatiron District.The group had the entire restaurant to themselves around 10 p.m.

and enjoyed the hot spot’s 360 room, where guests eat in a virtual zeppelin that travels over NYC, through volcanoes, underwater, and into outer space by way of “floor-to-ceiling and tabletop 360 projection mapping.”Photos exclusively obtained by The Post also showed Madonna, Garner, and friends enjoying wine, cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres on leather couches in the lounge area.Madonna, 64, was sporting orange hair and a pair of dark colored gloves, posed with platinum blonde Garner, 29, eating what appeared to be french fries.On a break from grueling rehearsals for her much anticipated, global “Celebration Tour,” the “Hung Up” icon looked quite different than the often filtered Instagram version of herself.

She also appeared unbothered by the ongoing social media speculation over her always evolving look.Twitter was ablaze with snarky star watchers saying they didn’t recognize Madonna after her now notorious “swollen surgery face” at the 2023 Grammys in February, with one sniping “That can’t be her.

Can it?”A source told The Post at the time that the singer’s puffy look was a result of an obsession with her cheeks, adding: “She doesn’t realize that it’s making her look a bit like a caricature of herself.”Although some insiders claimed Madonna was in a “crisis of confidence” after the critical remarks from Twitterati, one of her oldest celebrity buddies said she’s unfazed by critics.“She knows who she is, what she wants, what she wants to look like, what she wants to wear, what she wants to say,” the pop superstar’s “A League of Their Own”.