Shakira reveals that her children “hated” the movie 'Barbie': “They felt it was emasculating. And I agree, to a certain extent."

Shakira's interviews and statements, being relatively unusual, always generate attention and expectation. The singer, who for a year now, after separating from Gerard Piqué, lives in Miami (Florida, USA) with her children, Milan and Sasha, released her first album in seven years,

which represents a step forward in their professional and personal lives. And that is why she is giving some talks with certain media outlets. This April 1, it was revealed that she is the cover of

magazine

in its US edition. In addition to a photo session, she sat down to chat for a long interview where she touched on different topics, from her physical image (" I never thought that beauty was my forte, just one more thing that I could exploit") to her new life in Miami ("I've had to rebuild myself, put together the pieces that had fallen"), her music, creativity, her fitness routines. beauty and hair (she has created a specific line for her indomitable mane) or the fact that as a woman she no longer feels like she has to apologize. And, speaking of feminism, the question has arisen about what she thinks of the movie

, last year's hit. And her opinion is generating a multitude of comments.

Chatting with the interviewer, Shakira tells her that she understands that, by the year 2030, 60% of the world's wealth will be managed by women (a fact from a 2020 report by the consulting firm McKinsey). Following the comment, the journalist asks her if she has seen

to which she responds that she has... and she takes a long pause. “And?” the interviewer asks, curiously. “My children completely hated her,” responds the Colombian singer. “They felt she was emasculating. And I agree, to a certain extent," he says about Greta Gerwig's film, which has grossed more than $1.4 billion, becoming the highest grosser of the year and also in the history of Warner, with eight Oscar nominations. which won an award, for best song.

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“I am raising two children,” the artist continues, referring to Milan, 11, and Sasha, nine. “I want them to also feel powerful while respecting women. I like it when pop culture tries to empower women without robbing men of the ability to be men, and also to protect and provide. I believe in giving women all the tools and confidence that we can without losing our essence, without losing our femininity. I believe that men have a purpose in society and so do women. We complement each other, and that complement should not be lost,” she argues.

Then the interviewer asks her: “Does the fact that a woman can do everything mean that she should do it?”, to which the woman from Barranquilla responds: “Why not share that burden with the people who deserve to carry it, whose task Is it also carrying it?”

Shakira with her children Sasha (left) and Milan (right) at the MTV Video Music Awards in New Jersey, in September 2023. Noam Galai (Getty Images)

Throughout the interview, the singer had made several statements about women, herself, the future and the past. For example, she stated: “Creating this album has been a transformation in which I have been reborn as a woman. I have rebuilt myself in the way I see fit. No one tells me how or when to cry, no one tells me how to raise my children, no one tells me how to become a better version of myself. "That's for me to decide," to continue: "Before, when women went through a difficult situation, they were expected to be careful with their manners, to hide their pain, to cry in silence. That ended. Nobody is going to control us anymore. “No one will tell us how to heal ourselves, how to clean our wounds.” The

and

interpreter

also states: “Eva's was a story created by misogynists to put women in a little box in which we have to remain silent, we cannot say what we think or be catalysts of change. To keep things as they are. I think there's something refreshing about women when they can be themselves and not apologize. Because we've had to apologize so many damn times in the past."