Shakira Gushes About Not Having A Husband: 'It Was Dragging Me Down'

Shakira is getting candid about her views on marriage.

Speaking with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 , the Colombian pop star, 47, opened up about how being married isn’t ideal for her and her music career.

The “Hips Don’t Lie” singer was in a relationship with soccer player, Gerard Piqué, for 11 years before they announced their separation in 2022. The former couple share two sons : Milan, 11, and Sasha, 9.

“In a way, it’s kind of good not to have a husband because that…I don’t know why it was dragging me down, man,” she said in the interview published Wednesday. “Now I feel like working. I feel like writing songs. I feel like making music. It’s a compulsive need of mine that I didn’t feel before.”

Shakira, who moved from Spain to the U.S. after calling it quits with Piqué, went on to admit that she’s found being a single parent to be “challenging” at times.

“It’s more challenging because now I’m in charge of these two kids, these two babies that depend on me so much. And I’m a single mother, I don’t have a husband at home to help out with anything,” she explained.

The songwriter doubled down on the “constant juggling” single motherhood requires in an interview with Billboard back in September.

“Sometimes I think being a single mom and the rhythm of being a pop star aren’t compatible,” she shared. “I have to put my kids to bed, go to the recording studio; everything is uphill.”

“When you don’t have a husband who can stay home with the kids, it’s constant juggling because I like to be a present mom, and I need to be there every moment with my children: take them to school, have breakfast with them, take them to playdates. And aside from that, I have to make money,” Shakira added.

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