“There were many sacrifices for the sake of love”: Shakira spoke about her

Shakira shared details of her family life with football player Gerard Pique. They separated in 2022 after 12 years of civil marriage and the birth of two sons. “For a long time I put my career on hold to be there for Gerard so he could play football,” the singer admitted to The Sunday Times. “There were a lot of sacrifices for love.”

Now the singer is practically raising 11-year-old Milan and 9-year-old Sasha alone, living with them in Miami. While the boys' father and her former partner remained in Spain with his new lover Clara Chia Marti.

Previously, the singer of the hit “Hips Don’t Lie” said in an interview with Billboard that she always considered family and home to be her main priorities in life. “I believed in the saying 'till death do us part.' I believed in this dream, and I kept this dream for myself and for my children,” she noted. “My parents have been together, I don’t know, 50 years, and they love each other like the first day, with a unique and inimitable love.”

Shakira and Pique met in 2010 while filming the video for the song “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa).” In May 2011, they first appeared in public as a couple, in 2013 Milan appeared in their family, and in 2015 Sasha.

“I believe that nothing can compensate for the pain of the destruction of a family,” Shakira said last year. – Of course, I move on for the good of my children, this is my biggest motivation. But my biggest dream, more than getting platinum albums and Grammys, was to raise my sons with their father. Overcoming obstacles and growing old together. I know that now I can’t do it,” she concluded. Now the artist is in a close relationship with basketball player and NBA star Jimmy Butler. Her new album “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran” will be released on March 22nd.