How Shakira Started Feeling “Enough” Again After Gerard Piqué Breakup

With difficult breakups come valuable lessons. 

Well, it’s certainly the case for Shakira who broke up with Gerard Piqué in June 2022 after 11 years together. While her ex has moved on with girlfriend Clara Chia Marti, Shakira says she is focused on being the best version of herself.

“I too believed that story, that a women needed a man to complete herself,” she told journalist Enrique Acevedo on Mexican channel Canal Estrellas via translation Feb. 27. “I also had that dream to have a family where the kids had their mom and dad under the same roof. Not all of those dreams come true, but life has a way of compensating you in one way or another.”

While her love story with Gerard came to an end, Shakira’s bond with their children—Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8—is just beginning.

“I depend on myself and I have two kids that depend on me,” she said. “And I need to be stronger than a lioness…That force needs to be real, it cannot be a façade.”