“My sons hated the movie Barbie”: Shakira reveals that her children, aged 8 and 10, felt “emasculated”

Shakira's two sons 'absolutely' hate the

movie . At least that's what the singer said during an interview for the new issue of

magazine . The ex-wife of Gérard Piqué assures that Greta Gerwig's feature film, released in July 2023, did not convince her children, Milan (10 years old) and Sasha (8 years old), because of its “castrating” side ". “And I agree, to a certain extent,” she clarified.

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The

singer also found the male characters in the film too “emasculated”. Conversely, it is important to her that men, and her sons in particular, can continue to feel “powerful” while “respecting women”. “I love the fact that pop culture can empower women without depriving men of being who they are,” she continued. I also believe that we must give women all the tools and the confidence, that we can do anything without losing our essence and our femininity either.”

Complementarity

Thus, the 47-year-old singer deplored the vision of feminism carried by

, men being at the mercy of women, the latter playing the best roles and them being infantilized. Nominated 8 times for the Oscars, the film, which stars Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, was however shunned at the awards, only receiving the prize for best song for “What Was I Made For?”, by Billie Eilish . A failure that Shakira would therefore explain by a work that was a little too militant. “I think men have a reason to be in society and women also have another reason to be. We complement each other, and this complementarity must not be lost,” she concluded.