Shakira was seen spending some quality time with her sons Milan and Sasha ahead of her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she will perform her hit track TQG for the first time, in New York City.
Before preparing to take the stage and sing her vicious breakup song about her ex Gerard Piqué, who she split from in June after 11 years of dating, the superstar, 46, took her boys to visit M&M’S World in Times Square.
On her way into the three-story candy store, the Colombian singer smiled while holding hands with her little ones as she rocked a black furry jacket, leather backs and a Balenciaga crossbody bag.
She rocked her waist-length fiery tresses in a low ponytail under a black baseball cap and completed her sporty ensemble with a pair of platform sneakers.
Her eldest, 10, wore a denim shirt under a grey puffer coat and coordinating slacks while his younger brother wore a grey patterned sweat suit and coordinating windbreaker.
Family outing: Shakira was seen spending some quality time with her sons Milan and Sasha ahead of her appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she will perform her hit track TQG for the first time, in New York City
On Monday, she said writing TQG empowered her, and if she hadn’t penned the track, she ‘would be in a very different place.’
During an interview with Mexican journalist Enrique Acevedo, she also reflected on being ’emotionally dependent on men’ throughout her life and buying into ‘that story that a woman needs a man to complete herself, a family.’
‘Now I feel complete because I feel that I depend on myself and that I also have two children that depend on me, so I have to be stronger than a lioness,’ she said.
The family’s sighting comes after allegedly realized her ex-boyfriend had been unfaithful when she discovered a jar of strawberry jam had been eaten while she was away
Shakira then went onto reference the strawberry jam in a music video for her single Te Felicito in April, which featured a clip of a head of her collaborator Rauw Alejandro inside an open fridge.
According to ShowNews Today, Shakira knew that Gerard and their two kids didn’t like strawberry jam, and so she suspected that someone else had been staying at their home when she found the jar.
Shakira returned home from a period of travelling when she noticed the jam in her fridge had been eaten, and she knew the rest of her family disliked it.
The singer appeared to allude to this in the music video for her single Te Felicito, where she can be seen opening a fridge to be greeted by Rauw’s head.
She also reportedly set up a terrifying life-size witch doll on the balcony of her Spanish home, which reportedly looks over her former mother in law’s pad.
Residents in the area have reported hearing Shakira ‘blasting the song at full volume’ from her home, which includes lyrics aimed at his new girlfriend.
Sightseeing: Before preparing to take the stage and sing her vicious breakup song about her ex Gerard Piqué , who she split from in June after 11 years of dating, the superstar, 46, took her boys to visit M&M’S World in Times Square
Looking good! On her way into the three-story candy store, the Colombian singer smiled while holding hands with her little ones as she rocked a black furry jacket, leather backs and a Balenciaga crossbody bag
Shakira, makes it crystal clear she is referring to the 23-year-old her former partner is rumored to have started dating last year before they split, saying: ‘I’m worth two 22’s. You traded a Ferrari for a Twingo. You traded a Rolex for a Casio.’
While Shakira’s new song features some barbed lyrics aimed at Gerard and his new love Clara, she also includes a few choice words for her ex-mother-in-law.
In the song, she sings the line: ‘You left my mother-in-law as my neighbor, with the press at the door and the debt in the Treasury…’
It has been reported that the relationship between Shakira and Montserrat Bernabéu [Gerard’s mother] has turned sour after she readily welcomed her son’s new romance with Clara Chia Marti.
Last month, in an on-air chat with Spanish streamer Ibai Llanos, Gerard confessed that Clara chooses his clothes for him when they go shopping together, comparing himself to a ‘puppet.’
‘The truth is I go with my girlfriend to the shops and she buys them for me. I’m a puppet,’ he said when asked if he still kept up with fashion trends since he retired from playing professional football.
In the Big Apple: She rocked her waist-length fiery tresses in a low ponytail under a black baseball cap and completed her sporty ensemble with a pair of platform sneakers
Cute: Her eldest, 10, wore a denim shirt under a grey puffer coat and coordinating slacks while his younger brother wore a grey patterned sweat suit and coordinating windbreaker
Pique’s lawyer recently praised the retired footballer and singer-songwriter ex Shakira for showing ‘great intelligence’ in the way they resolved their split.
The pair spared their two kids a damaging legal battle by confirming last November they had penned a child custody agreement after protected negotiations and signing the accord at a Barcelona court the following month.
Veteran family lawyer Ramon Tamborero, who represented the ex-footballer in his negotiations with the Colombian artist, insisted: ‘They have made a great effort for the good of their children, making sure they weren’t the protagonists. Both of them have shown great intelligence.’
In a surprise interview with Catalan daily La Vanguardia, the 74-year-old admitted of the talks that resulted in the agreement: ‘It required seven months of negotiations.
‘The agreement was complex and required preparatory meetings. And the decisive reunion before the signing lasted 13 hours.’
Asked about the purpose of so much dialogue, he made it clear he believed an agreement worked out between two former partners was a better option than a custody trial and a judge’s ruling by replying: ‘A bad agreement is better than a good sentence.
‘I always tell my clients: once you’ve signed your divorce agreement I advise you to put it in a draw and dialogue.’
It came just weeks after Gerard and Clara made their relationship Instagram official, with the sportsman cosying up to his new love, 23, in a happy selfie – which quickly racked up one million likes.
Channeling heartbreak to a hit song: The family’s sighting comes after allegedly realized her ex-boyfriend had been unfaithful when she discovered a jar of strawberry jam had been eaten while she was away
Moving on: Shakira then went onto reference the strawberry jam in a music video for her single Te Felicito in April, which featured a clip of a head of her collaborator Rauw Alejandro inside an open fridge