

“I want my kids to learn all about sports, even if they don’t do it professionally. With two famous parents, an artist and an athlete, Shakira is hoping the couple’s children are more influenced by their father than by herself. The couple live in his home town of Barcelona. He is a rock he is the rock of our family.” He is the one who changes the diapers and the one who is also there for them, and also for me, too.

“Since the kids were born, he is showing a tender side.

Usually footballers are associated with all things macho as opposed to the art of nappy-changing. “As you live with a person, that person over the years begins to show you different facets of their personality as Gerard is showing me a lot lately.” Now they are raising their two sons together: Milan, 3, and Sasha, 1. The 39-year-old Colombian-born bombshell met the centre back for FC Barcelona, 29, in 2010 when he appeared in her music video for the song Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) and the two quickly became an item. “Gerard may be ten years younger than me but sometimes he’s ten years wiser,” she says, proudly.

While she sings the praises of loving a younger man - Spanish football star Gerard Pique - her compliments aren’t what you might expect. “At least that’s what mine tells me, which is a great relief, because I will always have a little bit of extra fat here and there.”Īpparently her ‘extra fat’ is well appreciated. And besides, men like to have something to grab onto, right?” she says, laughing. “We should be happy with who we are and with our own bodies. A lot of pictures, well not a lot of them, all of them, are photoshopped to hell! I think that girls shouldn’t be too influenced by magazines. “I’ve always been a big advocate of curves. The award-winning singer and judge on the US version of The Voice is angry about the inaccuracies of women’s portrayal in the media. “She was too slim and stylised and so I told the directors she had to be a little curvier, she needed bigger hips if she was going to be based on my persona.” In the upcoming animated movie, Zootopia, in which she voices the character of Gazelle, the Hips Don’t Lie songstress insisted on making some physical adjustments to her character. NO ONE can accuse Shakira of not taking her image seriously.
