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Shakira Asks Paparazzi to Respect Her Son's Privacy
Don't you worry, Shakira is doing conscionable good astir 1 twelvemonth aft her breakup.
The Waka Waka singer, who was honored astatine Billboard's archetypal Latin Women successful Music gala May 6, seemingly referenced her 2022 split from ex-boyfriend Gerard Piqué during her acceptance code aft winning Woman of the Year award.
"This has been a twelvemonth of seismic alteration successful my beingness wherever I've felt much than ever and precise personally what it is to beryllium a women. And what it means," Shakira told the assemblage aft chap Colombian vocalist Maluma presented her with the award, per Billboard. "It's been a twelvemonth wherever I've realized we women are stronger than we think, braver than we believed, much autarkic than we were taught to be."
The 46-year-old noted that helium tin subordinate to truthful galore women who've mislaid themselves successful a relationship.
"Because what pistillate hasn't astatine immoderate clip successful her beingness forgotten herself due to the fact that she's seeking the attraction and emotion of idiosyncratic else?" Shakira continued. "It happened to me, much than once."
However, these days, the Grammy winner—who shares sons Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8, with the erstwhile shot star–is acceptable to enactment herself first. "There comes a clip successful the beingness of each pistillate wherever she nary longer depends connected idiosyncratic other to emotion and judge herself conscionable arsenic she is," she explained. "A clip erstwhile the hunt for idiosyncratic other is replaced by the hunt for oneself."
She added, "A clip erstwhile the tendency to beryllium cleanable is replaced by the tendency to beryllium authentic, and wherever uncovering idiosyncratic who is faithful is little important than being faithful to ourselves."
And the "Hips Don't Lie" singer's euphony is for those who tin subordinate to these experiences.
"The astir important lessons I learned from different women, and for them I wrote what I wrote and I sang what I sang," Shakira expressed, "Because lone a pistillate tin emotion until she's ripped apart; tin talk with the astir brutal honesty; tin sing with anger; creation successful ecstasy and beryllium brought to tears with emotion. Only a pistillate tin bash that."
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Shakira and Gerard, 36, confirmed they had split after 11 years unneurotic past June. That November, a source confirmed to E! News that the exes, who ne'er married, reached a custody agreement, with Shakira and their sons moving to Miami to beryllium person to her family.
"I settled successful Barcelona to springiness my children stability, the aforesaid that we are present looking for successful different country of the satellite adjacent to family, friends and the sea," Shakira captioned her April 2 Instagram post via translation. "Today we commencement a caller section successful the pursuit of their happiness."
And erstwhile it comes to respecting Milan and Sasha's privacy during this transitional period, Gerald has spoken retired successful defence of his sons.
"It is astir protecting them," he told El Pais during an interrogation published successful March via translation. "That is the occupation of each parents with children. That is what I americium focused connected and that is my occupation arsenic a father."
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