Shakira he is back at the center of the world’s attention. Just yesterday, June 11, 2026, he performed at the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup in Mexico City, performing his new song “Dai Dai” with Burna Boy, the official anthem of this year’s tournament. “Waka Waka (This Time for Africa)” returned to the World Cup stage more than fifteen years after it became the soundtrack of the 2010 edition. But long before the stadium filled with millions sang her songs, Shakira answered a much more relaxed question that had nothing to do with the stages, the crowd or the anthems. Speaking at a Fisher-Price panel on early motherhood in New York on September 24, 2015, just months after the arrival of her second son, the global superstar admitted that the hardest work she’s ever done wasn’t one of those things. It was being a mother.
The meaning of Shakira’s quote of the day
Shakira became a mother for the first time in January 2013 when her son Milan was born, and two years later her second son Sasha was born in January 2015, sharing both children with her ex-partner, Spanish footballer Gerard Piqué. By the time she sat on that Fisher-Price panel in September 2015, she was a mother of two young boys, still finding her pain, and the words she chose reflected that. Since then he has had no children, and Milan and Sasha remain his only two.
Shakira’s quote about being onemother tiger ‘
The phrase “tiger mom” she uses for herself is also interesting. Not in the sense of being sharp or demanding, but in the sense of being constantly alert, constantly researching, constantly trying to learn more, because he doesn’t want to get it wrong. This hunger to improve, to read more, to ask more questions is immediately recognized by most parents. The job comes without a manual, so you build your own, one quest and one sleepless night at a time.
And there is the queue that has been with people the longest. “I ask him every day if I’m doing it right.” That phrase captures something that successful, capable, successful people rarely say. This ability in one area of life is not automatically transferred to parents. Such self-doubt is not a sign of failure as a parent. It’s a sign of how seriously you take responsibility.
All about Shakira and her sons
A decade after that interview, Shakira’s relationship with her sons, Milan and Sasha, has become one of the most visible and satisfying parts of her public life. In February 2025, the boys were in the audience when Shakira won the Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album for ‘Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran’. As soon as his name was announced, they threw their arms around him, and in his acceptance speech he told them how proud he was of them, calling them his good-hearted boys.Speaking to Entertainment Tonight at the same Grammys, Shakira reflected on what she most wants to convey to them. “Probably the biggest lesson they can learn from me is how hard I work and that nothing is easy. Everything is the result of discipline and commitment, and that’s one of the things I want to teach.”
