Shakira has been 'reborn as a woman' after a difficult two years
Pop star Shakira feels as if she has been "reborn as a woman" after going through a difficult split from Gerard Pique in 2022 and pouring her pain into her new album 'Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran'.
Shakira has been "reborn as a woman" after a difficult two years.
The pop star split from footballer Gerard Pique - the father of her two sons - in 2022 and she has poured her pain into her new album 'Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran' - and Shakira believes the suffering she endured has changed her as a person and made her more resiliant.
She told Allure magazine: "I was in the mud. I had to reconstruct myself, to reunite all the pieces that had fallen apart. Making this music has shown me that my pain can be transformed into creativity.
"The songs are full of anecdotes and some very intense emotions I have experienced in these two years. But creating this album has been a transformation in which I have been reborn as a woman. I have rebuilt myself in the ways I believe are appropriate. 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. I decide that."
She went on to insist she now feels more in control, adding: "In the past, when women went through a difficult situation, they were expected to mind their manners, to hide the pain, to cry in silence. That's over. Now, no one will control us. No one will tell us how to heal, how to clean our wounds."
