Shakira says her two young boys ‘absolutely hated’ the “Barbie” movie because they found it “emasculating.”
In a new conversation with Allure, the singer opened up in her April 2024 cover telling the outlet that her kids Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9, and agreed “to a certain extent” because she wants them to feel as empowered as she does.
“I’m raising two boys. I want ’em to feel powerful too [while] respecting women,” she said. “I like pop culture when it attempts to empower women without robbing men of their possibility to be men, to also protect and provide.”
Shakira went on to admit that men and women “complement each other” by serving different purposes.
“I believe in giving women all the tools and the trust that we can do it all without losing our essence, without losing our femininity,” she elaborated.
“I think that men have a purpose in society and women have another purpose as well. We complement each other, and that complement should not be lost.”
The singer has recently taken on a new role as a parent after her split from longtime partner Gerard Piqué, who is her sons’ father.
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Shakira also went on to tell the magazine that the album “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” which is her first in seven years after putting her career on hold, has served as her emotional outlet.
“I was in the mud,” she shared. “I had to reconstruct myself, to reunite all the pieces that had fallen apart.”
The singer also admitted she had to rebuild herself following the alleged affair that occurred.
“No one tells me how to cry or when to cry, no one tells me how to raise my children, no one tells me how I become a better version of myself,” she said. “I decide that.”
The singer recently moved from Spain to Miami last year to be closer to family after she and her former husband came to a custody agreement.
