Fabulously 40-Something

It all happens in the forties: Year by year, see the decade's It women, including Teri Hatcher, Sheryl Crow and more. By Caryn Midler

MADONNA, 47

A tumble from a horse on her birthday in August left Madonna with cracked ribs and a broken collarbone, but it barely caused a hiccup in her busy life. The mom of two (to Lourdes, 8, and Rocco, 5) has kept up with her Kabbalah activities, attended hubby Guy Ritchie's film premieres and worked on her new album, Confessions on a Dancefloor, due Nov. 15. (The first single, "Hung Up," hits stores next month.) "She is a fearless girl," says her rep, Liz Rosenberg.