Shakira’s Best and Most Honest Quotes About Motherhood and Raising Her 2 Sons: ‘Everything Is Centered Around Them’

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Shakira’s Best and Most Honest Quotes About Motherhood and Raising Her 2 Sons: ‘Everything Is Centered Around Them’

Her whole world! Shakira is the proud mom of two sons — and she can’t help but gush about what it means to have her little ones by her side. The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer became a mother for the first time in January 2013 when she and her then-partner Gerard Piqué welcomed their first child, son Milan. After adjusting to life with her newborn, Shakira opened up about how motherhood had changed her life for the better. "When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel," the "Whenever, Wherever" songstress told Latina Magazine in March 2014. "I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me." Two years after welcoming Milan, Shakira and the retired soccer player expanded their family for a second time. The "She Wolf" performer gave birth to son Sasha in January 2015. [jwplayer eJWSYJOF-zhNYySv2] Since the Colombia native became a parent of two boys, she’s documented their major milestones via social media. In a March 2016 interview with PopSugar, Shakira joked that she considered herself a “serial documenter” of her kids' accomplishments. "One of the most memorable moments with Milan was when he started being able to identify items on flashcards. We started when he was 6 months old and he caught on right away,” she gushed at the time. “With Sasha, I’ve found that he’s really musical and has an innate capacity for it; he even plays the drums! I’ve documented those moments and countless others. I’m a serial documenter." In June 2022, Shakira and Piqué announced that they had called it quits after 12 years of dating. “We regret to confirm that we are separating,” the pair wrote in a joint statement to Reuters at the time. “For the wellbeing of our children, who are our highest priority, we ask that you respect their privacy.” Two months later, the athlete was spotted packing on the PDA with model Clara Chia. After news broke of the pair's split, the "Can't Remember to Forget You" performer opened up about how she and her boys were dealing with the tough transition. "It’s been tough not only for me, but also for my kids," she explained to Elle in September 2022. "[It's] incredibly difficult. ... I’ve tried to conceal the situation in front of my kids. I try to do it and to protect them, because that’s my number one mission in life. But then they hear things in school from their friends or they come across some disagreeable, unpleasant news online, and it just affects them, you know?” Keep scrolling to see what Shakira's most honest quotes about being a mom:

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What Nobody Told Her

"I didn't expect babies to need so many diapers! Nobody told me they needed to be changed so often!" The Voice alum joked to Us Weekly in April 2013 three months after she gave birth to her first child. "I mean he's a great, great baby. He's an easy one, I think. But nobody told me it would be this hard. It takes a lot of energy from you. But I love it, I'm really enjoying every bit of it. It's just that it's not as idyllic as everybody tells you, but also not as horrible as everyone tells you."

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Happy to Be a Mom

"When you have a baby, when you feel his love, you feel so at peace with the world. You just want to share the good news and share how happy you feel," she told Latina Magazine in March 2014. "I have so many people out there that celebrate with me when they know that I'm happy. And they hate it when they know that I'm suffering because someone has hurt me."

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No Longer the Boss

"It’s shifted the axis of my universe. Everything is centered around them now,” Shakira told PopSugar in March 2016. “It’s a new dimension of love, at least for me, that’s indescribable. It’s also helped me be more disciplined overall about sticking to a schedule now, because you’re forced to prioritize. Before I was my own boss, but I have two tiny bosses to answer to now."

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Doing Her Best

“I think it’s an advantage to inform yourself. But trying to predict what your child will be like is about as effective as consulting a crystal ball,” she told the Huffington Post in December 2017. “There are no shortcuts, in the end, to learning how to be a parent. I’m sure I’ve made mistakes, and there are probably many things I will continue to try doing better.”

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Being Away from Her Boys

“Sometimes it´s very hard when you cannot see your sons for a month or even more,” the singer explained to Viva magazine in September 2019, according to Hola!. “It is so hard. But we call each other via FaceTime, so we are in constant communication, that helps.”

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Her Kids’ Wise Career Advice

During a March 2023 appearance on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Shakira revealed that her two sons were “like her career consultants” and her son Milan even pitched her and her manager the idea to work with Bizarrap months before they recorded their hit collaboration.

“I listen to everything they say, because they actually have really good taste,” she said to Fallon. “And Milan, he’s also a musician. He has a very good ear, very good taste. And he’s a big Biza fan and he told me, ‘Mom, you’ve got to collaborate with Bizarrap. You have to get on a song with Bizarrap because you guys are gonna be No. 1.”